DEATH-BED SENSATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2465, 28 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEATH-BED SENSATION.

ii- Society in Cincinnati'* aristocratic suburb id AvoriiLilo, is excited over a death-bed sonic, sation. L-ist Tuesday afternoon Samuel ig (J. Tiituni, juu. , n very prominent young s', business man and the son and heir of a or Cincinnati millionaire, died at his elegant lv home on Kasota AvenHC. Ho was but. I little over thirty years old, and though a iv trifle peculiar in his ways, w«is regarded 3n as ti great prize by marriageable young to ladies, though he was deemed a confirmed 1. bachelor. As the body lay at the houae Ic. on Wednesday a carriage drove up find w un elegantly dressed lady alighted. Her iy bla.ik eyes, dark hair, and features india cated French descent. She hurriedly g- walked to the front door and excitedly id demanded that she be permitted to see le the remains of Mr Tatum. The woman's 1. manner was so strange find her agitation io «o noticeable that this was refused. She re iusisted that f-he had a right to what (-he y Hiked, and in proof took from her pocket it a document and handed it over to tho >s member of the household who had re;t uponded to the ring , of the bell. It proved y a formal certificate of miurinire of Samuel i- Tatum, jun, , to Frances Emommin at n Dayton, two years ago. All the family t- were iiiitiinilly surprised when confronted ,-. with this evidence of Tituui'sdouhli; lifn, f] and a consultation was hurriedly held, it ending , in the vi-itor being courteously in.s vited in. It now turns cut that the ~ mysterious wurauu i< the daughter of poor j arid plain people at Diyton. Four years t ago she left homo to be treated for some ;| cosnpl-iiut. at an hospital in this city. She '. returned homo with a husband in the c person of a di-tingui-hed looking gentlo,f men[n:un.>d Herbort Lintoii. The couple n later went to house-keeping , in Cincinnati, s on West Eight, street, and Mr Lintou's ,f rooms appears in thra directory. Linton n was no other thin Tutuin. In time the f woman discovered her husband's ri^ht y n-iti'P, and compelled him, two yuars :iiro ] to marry her nudor his rig/ht n-inno. The c ficremoiiy was performed in Buffalo, New -, York. All this time Tatum was living a 1 double life, and his friends never su-ipcc-tod tbo true situation till his death, when > the widow turned up with a marriage certificate. She is now at the suburban I horn; , , and will corn > into possession of a . 000 l half-million in her own right.— . Brooklyn 13 igli;.