A Lady and her "Bumps."

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 167, 22 July 1870, Page 2

A Lady and her "Bumps."

HASTY MATLRIIGE—THE HUSBAND N Examines his wife's head, and

CONSENTS TO A DIVORCE. ... Most of our local readers, says a correspondent at Hartford, (Conn.) are aware of the arrest of Samuel S. Drake, of Windsor Locks, charged "with an assult upon John Toomhy, at Woodl'uff & Beaeh'a iron works —the main point being that Drakn had hastily married a young widow of Hartford, who soon after confessed that she loved Toomhy. Mr. Drake informed U3 that while most of the account in the main was correct, some important facts were omitted, and, as the story of his courtship and marriage possesses a romance seldom met with in the current affairs of life, we give below a portion of the interesting accounts taken from his own lips : " I saw her at Mr. Moore's boardinghouse, No. 35 front-street, on Tuesday, nine days before Thursday on which we were married. When I saw hex' I asked another lady there if she was the landlady, and she said not, and told iao that she was a young: woman wfco had been gi-eatly abuied. Being something of a phrenologist, I examined her head. I found her to bo a woman who loved money pretty well; mechanical ingenuity, large ; deficient in cautiounesa; continuity and self-esteem small; intellectual faculties quite"well developed. I *aw tliore would be trouble from her small cautiousness, but not bo much as there turned outto be. I told her she would be fond of adventure ; that she wpsn'fc timid, and asked her if Bhe would be afraid to get married if ,a - man should p/opose ? She said sho wouldn't and then I asked her if she would marry me, and she said she would, any time. Nine days, after, I came and we were married; wont to St. John's Hotel, and the next morning went home. We wore living quite happ'ly then j but she began making revelation* to me about her previous character (he gave details hero which we omit) at which I was quite horrifiod ; but I had sympathy for her faults.and forgave her. All went along well enough till she came to Hartford on Wednesday.- She stayed that night and went back the next day. Sho got off at nayden's station, and when I went after her a man told me that he had seen hei1 sitting on a pile of rails. _ I walked up the track find found her. A little girl was with her, and «he told me that while my -wife was sitting on the pile of rails a man came along and hugged and , kissed her. I didn't say anything about this, and the next morning, Friday, she saia sho had trouble ; that a young man, Toomhy, was e;omg to kill himself if sho didn't marry him ; his mother had said that ho would take 'pizeu, if she didn't marry him, and it had taken away all her peace of mind. I told her I did not know what to think about it, but I would pray, and so I did, then tasked her if she would 'pijzcn' me if I didn't let her go ? She made no roply. I told her then that I was not at liberty to refuse her to go, and would do anything to get a divorce. Mr. Drake went on to giro tho whole facts, from which it appears, as stated the other day, that the marriage certificate was burned up by mutual consent, and on Monday'himself came to this city. He thought as Be had inng!ia:iiwously given up his claims to the vromau for the benefit of Toomhy, that Toomhy ought to pay one-half the cost of getting a divorce, and to arrange that matter he -went to Woodioffo & Beach's. But Toomhy, he says, knew him and goein'g a pistol in hia pocket, tho;u't ho had " brought death along with him, " aud was fearfully alarmed, and at once caused his arrest. The whole story is a remarkable one, and one of its most dtriking features is flic wonderful fortitude displayed by Mr.: Drake in his affliction. Few men would be ablo to bear themselves up with the courage that he displays, with such torriblo experience staring him in the face; but he appears to bring to his situation tho nicest essences of philosophy, and, buoyed by consciousness that he has done nothing to aggravato the feelings of any one, lie is almost a martyr, bi-eaiue of his great charity, which makes forgiveness a shining virtue .with, him, and eeems determined to outlive the wrong, and go on as a citizen with malice toward none. In tho Police Court the case was heard fully, and Judge Merrill reserved his decision until this morning.