Daily British Whig (1850), 29 Sep 1906, p. 14

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bring a legal knowledge to help him attain his ambition more rapidly, For sixteen years he served poration well; then ho repigned. No breath of suspicion, no hint and then he rushed comes," faltered 'the the same minute Boston. Then, with "If be docen't get hope he will come tween Piggott and reached the public at 'that time. So far a8 oven his most intimate associ- | know, his domestic life was ideal, # wife's niece had increased his fortune through Colorado mining real te speculations in the east. He made a million, it is said Land then started to make another. 4 Charlotte Budi 'was scarcely more than a school-girl when her charms first captivated the husband nit, who was old enough to be her father. Tall, sober-eyed, earnest, she physical us well as mental Since childhood she had been of a poetic bent. Her father, J. Bumory Ry. educate her wel, was proud of his da ors talents, \ ws Byram well versed in literature, but she was a fine pjan- ist and an expert photographer. as well. Some of her poems she sold to or class magazines, i The fact that Piggott was her uncle made it easy for see him almost every day. The "dear lithe girl'--%0 Mrs. Pi and © before he left at the banker's home. Ni Miss Byram had had' a ove affair, Indeed, she was mar husband, Walter RB. Garsed, may dismissed with , the brief statement made by his wife after "she leit him : "My marriage was unhappy think shall over marry again." entered--Jeave at once." . Then he wired to the Windsor hotel, t Denver, to reserve amd presents with a Mvish hand had the announcement of the marriage printed in the Depfer papers and tele graphed onst. She sppeared to be sat fied that a divoree had been granted to Piggott in Béston; | so did the clergyman. Later, when her companion was openly charged with bigamy, the igirl believed him against all the world, | After recovering from. the shock caused by the announcement of her busband's stcond marriage, Mrs, Pig | gott hastened west from and caused the arrest of the couple, whom she found on the stock farm néar Livermore, charging Piggott with bigamy. de was convieted, sentenced "to pay a fine of 81,000 and undergo imprison ment not exceeding two years. He did not have ready money, but Miss Byram pawned her jewels to pay his New Jersey fine. The jail sentence was suspend: od Not * satisfied with the sentence, which she thought inadequate, the de sorted wifd swore out another wm rant charging Pigpott with perjury is representing himself to be unmarried when he obtained the license to Miss Byram. When Denver officers went to serve this warrant they found that Piggott and his compation had fled. Upon {eaving Denver Piggott and his companion hastened south to Mex 100, travelling in the poorest manner posible, to avoid discovery, Detectives employed by the® first wife followed. One: the officers "wore se close upon 4ahé fleecing pair--or, at' least, Piggott belioved them to be--that Miss Byrasi t on men's clothing, and they rode or many weary miles on an open fiat dar. | . ah . Upon coming © to a city they occu Before Pea-Angle' Ie ehrink; wed crust, pied little fin'trap rooms in cheap boarding houses 'and hotels, often climbing down Tep-escapes. to avoid any one. who 'might be, watching Never one did, they veniure into a place of amusement, so féarful they of detection. When funds became low' and it was impossible bods into money were to convert f x Miss Byram parted with all her remaining jewels, retain ing nothing but the clothing on back. x Fhe fear hunted' was Gpon them. They wore 'comparatively in Mexico, but the drove her of the safe dread of pustior Ii they could |' only each British Colambih they would be Secure, it told them. "So they away. them on harried Usider-much the same circumstances as they. had fled south, they 'went north' again. 'At Spokane, Wash, their prisence was discovered by a former foe who Mianee, i notified st Robert Schulte, 'of Denver < had been commissioned to rur the 'fleeing couple to 'esfth, But Mrs ggott's friends were not alone in vigilance. Pigipott's friends were faithful to him, too. 'The moment Schultz left Dofiver for Spo kane he was aware of it. Then Pigg and Migs Byram head od hotfoot for British Columbia Thinking that, hampered by a wo man, Pigott could not iret away, the detective Felt sure of hig guarey now. The conductor of the tfain that took them from Spokane' remembered Pig gott and Miss Byram: Schultz follow od the clue to Rossland, far across the Ca adian line; "where he. learned that a' man and woman had started for a miming cami AWay in 'the north On, on, he Past after them. Tropical fruits and foliage had sur rounded - Piggott and his companiby in' Mexico. Horn thi © snow was feet deep upon the ground, Travel was only possible by dog sled, Schultz apd his party océupied three such ve- hicles with two 'half heeesds a8 guides. Through a raging 'blizzard that ob- fiterated all trails dnd piled the snowbanks high, dashed: the 'putsuers and pursued, fee ' Shutting: his eves, the detpptive sat buried: in the robes; fearing that he would be lost in the $tormi. When the cold had hemimbod hit 4nd he "Was resigned to death, reached. Piggott and his been there the day belne: they had'n good twenty-four hours" start. « Miss Byram bad sufferad govesely from the cold, the 'miners told him, but shé had made no complaint, Next day the temil wax taken ap anew. Heve and 'there the party canld so where Pigpott's shed, with its doi ble load, had broken. through the a mieg mp was ' eqipanion had. ! Af Princeton, far up 'in the wilds, the fugitives were overtaken. They bad not decided to stay n there, 'But were bent upon pushing over farther north. Into their cabin, revolver in hand, On the edge for future flight, sat the couple. Half of walked Detective Schultz. of a bed, discussing their plans their baggage was packed, the strewn around. "You have caught us at last, but we led you a good, long: chase' --that was all Piggott had to say. A suspicious motion-on-thepart --of Miss Byram led the detective to point hig fevolver at her; but she was sim- ply trying ta put some papers out of sight. - Taken back to Denver, Piggott serv- ed a sentence of five months and then returned east. Taking up his resi- dence in a suburb of Boston, he lived fuietly, shunning all acquaintances. Meanwhile his wife secured a di- vorce; with a judgment for 850.000 alimony, and was awarded the same amount. in a shit against Miss Byram rest for alienation of her husband's affece, tions; but, it is said. she never receiv- od more than enough to sustain her- | self-and children. +3 When Piggott was freed from jail Miss Byram and he did not meet again. She garried. He went to Bos- ton, Where, unknown, he has been en- deavoring to live down the past. Now, obedient to a voice from the grave, he and his. wife are reconciled. Pimples! call for immediate treat- ment. There's fothing more offensive and dreaded than a pretty face cover. od with eruptions. The body must be kept perfectly healthy with Hollis- ter's Rocky Mountain Tea. Tea or tablets, 35¢. Mahood's drug store. W. H. Mosher, South Augusta, has scdd his farm to Uriah Bishop & Son, of Algonquin, storekeepers, who are going out of "business and going om the farm. Mr. Mosher will locate. in Brockville. Curiosity has been the most potent factor in the world's development. The Blues 1's 'your liver! In nearly every case it's the liver. That means consti- when he visits the fleet. forms, in addition tumes, which the king may have ce casion to don at some time or anoth- er, and in order to make ances in found at a moment's notice, the most carcful organization and .arrangement is necessary. robe are at Buckingham Palace, where 4 large room 'is devoted entirely to storage of articles of wearing which are for by a special staff of valets. Each side of the room is devoted to a dif- ferent country, - the sections being in turn subdivided ers, ench devoted to some special re- giment, ete., in holds rank. the world has. its own special section, which is so arranged that if the king 18 about head valet can instantly lay his fing- ers on the are likely to be required. Thus, in the section devoted to Germany, there will be a special division, in the a drawer or shelf, devote regiment [has a right to wear. there are others where day dress headings. of the ing in texture and thickness, according to the weather Period of the year. each season, again, mto spaces for overcoats, frock coats, lounge suits, morning coats and so on and each mark which enables the valets to re 'place it in correct section. has, of course, to man in it, and consequently the " J i sec- tions" where his ordinary wearing ap parel is stbrod have to he constantly restocked for among such a ma different suits some are worn but ofice or twice before they / ion, There is; therefore, plenty of work to be done to keep der, for every robe is brushed once a week in ready for use at a the same care i those uniforms used nae more likely to be needed. -Many of the unifoims in the wardrobe are occasionally renawed be- Jove they hake bien worn at all for -Course, his maiesty must be strict up-to-date, and oy ent makes a chawre in its uniform' however slight, s uniforas set of must be prepared for th yo epared oe A NEAT SOVEREIGN. Where King . Kees Variety o Clothes. . London Tit-Bits, Wherever he goes amd whatever he. } Edward is does, his majesty, King followed by the eyes of all his people, who like sto know everything he does, evirything he says, everything he eats and who would like, no doubt, to be able inelude everything he thinks. But although they carefully read the accounts of his various public appear- anes in England or in other coun- tries, and admire his photograph in various costumes, from the Highland kilt to that of an honorary officer in the regiment -of some continental country, 'it hardly ever occurs ta any- one to wonder where and how the en- ormous ° auantity of clothes iz kept which must necessarily be 'ready to hand for whatever purpose may be de- manded | by unforeseen circumstances If his/ majesty pays & visit, for in stance, to France, he may not know of all the functions that he will be called upon to grace with hig_presence; yet when the occasion" - arises he is there in the particular dress which is reduired, whether it is that ofweoh onel of some regiment he is called up- on to inspeet, or of a naval officer Literally there of different uni- to ordinary cos are some hundreds certain that England 'or in éther coun- The headquarters of the royal ward- apparel, carefully tended and tared into shelves and draw- which his majesty Almost every country in to visit that country the particular uniforms that shape of lo every whose uniform his majesty In addition to these official se¢tions items of oviry- are stored under different There is a section for each four seasons, the: clothes vary associated with The the section for is. divided garment bears a distinctive As head of the kingdom his majesty be the best-dressed ss of | get out of fash- the clothes in or- garment in the ward- and pressed regulurly order that it may be moment's notices, being shown towards which #re but seldom towards the "things that are roval if some foreign regi- it means that garments mbodying A. new Logos Zloped,. trouble of trying on new clothes like ordinary people, for all his things are made by the same skilled hands, who can fit him to the fraction of an inch MILLIONAIRE SOCIALIST. Sequel to Yankee's Marriage With Girl Cigarmaker. Phelps Stokes, the young million { aire, whose marriage with Miss Rose Pastor, a former cigarmaker, created widespread interest last yéar, has caused a sensation by announcing himself a convért "to socialism He wrote recently to the secretary of the Independent League, with which he has hitherto associated him self, announcing that he had decided to sever his connection with that ganization because its objects were not ° sufficiently radicef, and stating that. he intended offering. his services to the socialist party. In the letter he denounces the pres. ent capitalistic system, the unjust treatment of men and women workers, and 'the monopolization of land and the whole machinery of production for the purpose --of private gain and the maintenance of the idle and luxurious Socialism, he asserts, is the only rem- edy -for existing evils, Although he is a millionaire sev- eral times. over, and has large busi- ness interests, Mr. Stokes, since his marriage, has lived in one of the slums of New York, working among the poor, conducting extensive charities, and devoting his entire wealth to the benefit of the masses, In this he has the enthysiastic support of his wife, who is enMly self-educated, and was before her rriage a. wellknown yriter on topic _connected with the betterment of the "poor, or. A Judge's Joke. London Tribune. "Her Christian name is Handel," explained a witness at West Ham," "but she didn't like it, and took up Apnie instead." "Most people," ob- served the ristrate, "prefer handle to their Which, considered may names." judiciously, would appear a brilliant sally. USED ROUND THE won Baker's Cocoa Made by a scientific blend- ing of the best Cocoa beans grown in the tropics -- the result of 126 years of suc- cessful endeavor. WALTER BAKER & 00. Lid. DORCHESTER, MASS. BRANCH MOUSE 86 st. Peter $t., Montreal, Gan. on ¥ =

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