What Could She Expect!

Southland Times, Issue 12008, 31 March 1892, Page 4

What Could She Expect !

Brooklyn, (writes the New York enrrt--ipondent of (he Hobart Meicurv), hes it» ■o- iety paper, a eort of court journal, w ' io'' k"epH the iiubltc p"»t'. rt with tlio rioir.jjH ot Brooklyn's «*li * 350. The society reporter for the Court Journal is coDsiderst ]« of »» roan. If Miss Dobbs ia HOing to be married she privately heeds for J^nkinß tho reporter, and nnder the pledge of solemn secrecy, tells him all about it — she shows him the wedding trostuau — tells the names of the bridesmaids anJ best men, and Jenkics goes on bis way rejoicing ; ior the information be baa juit received is at bread and butter to him. The society reporter in this case was a dapper young gentleman about 21 years of age, named Wilson H. Olcott f his bair was blonde, and be had a deir little downy moustache, jnet too sweet for anything. In the course of bis society reporting he met a Mies Laura Thorn ; be came, be saw, he conquered, proposed and was accepted. Papa Thorn, who was well-to-do, did not like the idea, but Laura was Bare she would die if ebe did cot get married, bo the old man gave in. The wedding took place, but the brida! party and the minister were kept waiting on hour and a half, and when at last thtt groom arrived, and Papa Thora demanded an explanation, be said be bad forgotten the wedding-ring, and had to go over to bis jeweller's for it, but the jeweller's was closed, so he borrowed one for the occasion from a lady in tbo company. He took bis wife to a faehionable hotel, and left her about 1 in the morning, telling her that he bad a party te report, but returned next morning. Soon rumours reached Papa Thorn that bia new eon-in-law had another wife, sod on investigation he found her aarf her little baby miserably quartered in a room in cheap lodgings, while her high roller husband was occupying an elegant suite of rooms with wife Number Two, at one of the most faelrocablo hote'a in town. On investigation it transpired that on the night of his wedding to Miis Thorn he passed the afternoou with wife Number One, and jast before leaving for the wedding went out to a reetauraDt and got an oyster fry, which he ate with wife Number Ooe, who woa ironing the shirt whicb he wore to bis wedding with wife Nanabtr Two, and which being damp h» had to sit by the stove tiil it got dry, and this wa» the cause of his delay on the ni^ht of hia marriage to wife Number Two. When Papa Tborn taxed him with the report that he had another wife, at fie' he at.id that bf had never been married to her, andaft<rwird that he hai procure i a divorce. H^ was arrested at last, and is now behind prison bars, and is admitted oa a'l liaiKJH t > ba the chainf.ioD ii»r of the century. This is not tbo first scrape th it Mr Oleott bns been caught in. He Imw hem a swindlir and adeadbeat from bojboor', and now at the age of 21 has comruitt«d a crimt> which has L>roogbt d'w gr.cz on a couple of respectable lamilia*, fird bi-isurl the liv r of twocoofidioii; woinou wbo hive trusted him to their mud.