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A WIDOW’S WILESHow She Won Hugh’s A fictions. Hlt;• ••.ifjxFrom the Pufcoque Herald.1 ‘Bevare of the vidders,” wai thewholesome abvice of old Samivil A\ el- j [pi ler when contemplating the field lt;■i literature during, the palmy days of Dickens’ literary triumphs, long ago, and yet it seems as correct and truth-some in our day as them. Nice women and proper nice men are jewels, are they not?How different it might have beenhad Mr. Hugh Hagerty, a respectablecitizen of Darlington, Wisconsin, beena man of literary taste—had he read * *Dickens and become acquainted with such honest counselings as those.dohowlBtCithihiiWedUiedWbydi;telt;tliacuci:pi.ahiasPcAfryClccpim3dstfolil\rdiciMr. Hagerty has been respected citizen of Darlington, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, for many years past; settled there when the county was new; came there poor, married there, and by diat of industry and economy, grew into considerable property and raised a family of children. The youngest is a son twenty years old. Lately there have been differences between his wife and him, which time• •did not mend, and at last seemed irreparable. Hagerty occasion al 1 y absen t-ed himself from home, and without letting his wife know it, frequently visited a widow named Mary Asn Hughes, who lives at Monroe, Wisconsin. The more he saw Mary Aimy the better he liked her, am! the less he j g thought of the wife of his bosom, who failed in every effort to reclaim the truant. Friends of the family reside at Cherokee, Iowa.Hagerty, on pretense of going to see these friends, started away from home on Monday or Tuesday last, with a large sum of money he had obtained from the sale of certain property.Instead of going'to Cherokee, he stopped in Dupuque, and notified the widow Hughes, telling her to meet him here, and sending her a check for eight dollars to pay her fare. A friend ofMrs. Hagerty sent a dispatch, on Wednesday, informing her of her husband’s improper proceedings. The widow joined Hagerty Wednesday night; they prepared to leave St. Paul on the fiirt up-river steamer; were waiting at the wharf Thursday afternoon for the arrival ot the boat, wheu the Sheriff poked an ugly document iu Hager iy’s face—it was a warrant for his arrest on a charge of adultery ; Mrs. Hagerty had arrived in the city in company with a son, and filed a complaint against him in ’Squire Tuttle’s office. Hagerty had no alternative hut to come back and face the music, and he did it. He went to the office of the police justice, and stood face to face with his 11 injured wife. There were mutual recriminations betwen them; each N vowed never to live with the other 1 again. The wife feeling that she could 11 trust her husband no longer, called for Q a separation and a division of the 1 property, which was acceded to by the 1♦ * * * ahusband, and an attorney was sum- 1 moned, and immediately set about * drawing up the papers. Hagerty gave c the wife $400 in cash, and deeded to her property in Darlington valued at $1,200 or $2,400, she renouncing all claim ^ upon him in consideration of the * amount. The settlement was closed at J 6 o’clock, and the parties hare disappeared. Hagerty is no doubt felicita* ting himself on his way to St. Paul, with the widow and her two children;and Mrs. Hagerty takes the round ef ]lt;domestic life in single blessedness.OfwejwrhnA.I:hriANV* « J]Vti
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Winchester Journal
Winchester, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 06, 1872
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