THE CAREER OF WALTER MONTGOMERY’S SPURIOUS WIDOW.

Evening Star, Issue 2993, 21 September 1872, Page 4

THE CAREER OF WALTER MONTGOMERY’S SPURIOUS WIDOW.

A Boston letter-writer gives some new details regarding the career <>f the adventuresswho was married in London to the l;>te well? known actor, Walter Montgomery—a miuriage which was almost immediately followed by the suicide of the bridegroom. This woman Mas one of the coryphees at a Boston theatre, win re she attracted the attention of an old but wealthy citizen, who was fo; lish enough to marry her. The union was not a happy one, as the woman soon developed a fondness for fast society, which was anything hut agreeable to her aged spouse. Finally she ran away and visited L'ngland, where it is well known she was married to Walter Montgomery, who was on the point of visiting the United States. It has been said that Ids mortification on discovering the true character of the person he had wedded drove him to the desperate step of taking his- own life in preference to meeting the scorn which he expected to receive fiom the world when the farts became known. Mr Montgomery dead and buried, the spurious widow returned to mate husband in Boston, who apptara to have been so infatuated with the unprincipled adventuress as to have lost all regard for his honor or good name. The treacherous uoaian was received with open arms and supplied with unlimited sums of money. !Sho appealed in public on every occasion with all possible display, making a pr.fusc and ostentatious expenditure of her husband’s wealth. In the course of a few months llpj foolish old gentleman’s means were all squandered away, and very recently his name has appeared in aJit of bankrupts. As might have been exp.mied, the -woman who had caused his ruin deserted him as soon as his ability to administer toiler extravagance had failed.