WALTER MONTGOMERY'S WIFE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 897, 7 December 1871, Page 3

WALTER MONTGOMERY'S WIFE.

Boston, September 25.—1 believe the cause and circumstances of the death of Walter Montgomery have already been given in your foreign correspondence. "Within a day or two, the history of the woman whose infatuation for the tragedian was undoubtedly the cause of his suicide, has fully transpired. It seems that she was formerly a " woman of the town " and it is stated that she has been several times married, and at least two of her busbands are living in this city. Her maiden name was Bigelow, and her father is a shoemaker in East Boston. Her last husband is proprietor of a well-known private hotel. She, in company with her sister, made the old fellow's money fly very rapidly. She ran up accounts at various dry-goods stores in "Washington-street, until her husband gave orders to the proprietors of the places not her any more. About this time Mr Montgomery played an engagement at the Boston Museum, Mrs. , attended each and every performance, and was struck with his beautiful shaped limbs, she sent bouquets nightly, with a card containing the name of "Miss Bigelow" attached to it. Mr Montgomery did not know who the fair donor was, and paid very little attention to the matter. When he sailed for Europe and had left our shores but a day lie was introduced to a lady by the name of Bigelow of Boston, who on inquiry turned out to be our heroine. A mutual friendship sprang up between them on the voyage, when she informed him that she was madly in love with him and had followed him ou his voyage homein order that she might be near him. She passed herself ofFas a maiden, and Montgomery believed her. To make a long story short, ho subsequently married her, believing that in doing so

he was marrying a maiden who loved him for himself alone. The day after he was married he found out that she he had made his wife had a husband in Boston. It will be recollected that in a week he was to sail for this country, and that he was engaged by some of our lyceums to give readings. It was too much for a gentleman of his sensitive nature to face the public in this city with these facts standing prominently beforethem. It would be the gossip of the city and sent broadcast throughout the country. It was too much for his nerves, and the result was that he took his own life. This is given as the true cause of Walter Montgomery's suicide.