The CAREER of WALTER MONTGOMERY'S SPURIOUS WIDOW.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 186, 27 September 1872, Page 3

The CAREER of WALTER MONTGOMERY'S SPURIOUS WIDOW.

A Boston letter-writer gives some new details regarding the career of the adventuress who was married in London to the late well-known actor, Walter Montgomery— a marriage which was almost immediately followed bv the suicide of the bridegroom. This woman was one of the coryphees at a Boston theatre, where she attracted''' the attention of an old but wealthy citizen, who was foolish enough to marry her. The union was not a happy one, as the woman soon developed a fondness for fas': society, which was anything but agreeable to heraged spouse. Finally she ran away and visited England, 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 his 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 be expected to receive from the world when the facts became known Mr. Montgomery ,dead ; and buried, the spurious widow returned to her legitimate husband in Boston, who appears to have been' so infatuated with the unprincipled adventuress as to have lost all regard for his honor or good name. The treacherous woman was received with open arms, and supplied with unlimited sums of money. She appeared in public on every occasion with all possible display, making a,pro-' fuse and ostentatious "expenditure of her husband's wealth. In the course

of a few months the foolish'old ?r witletnfiu's moans were all squamler-.-l away,, and. very recently his name has appeared in a list of bankrupts. As l might .have been expected, the woman who had caused his ruin deserted him as soon, as his ability to administer to her extravagance had failed.