Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1871 — Warning to Girls Anxious to Marry. [ARTICLE]

Warning to Girls Anxious to Marry.

A divorce case in one of our courts, reported in yesterday’s Gazette, should prove a warning to young girls, or oM girls for that matter, who may be tempted to open correspondence with strangers “ with a view to matrimony ” or any other view. John P. Dabney, a married man, under the. name ol J. 1). Platt and F. M. Works, advertised for correspondence with girls between the ages of 17 and 20, which was answered by quite a number of females, and in one case Dabney, under the assumed name of ‘Works, contracted an engagement with a girl at Connersville, Ind. Dabney, who is, of course, a worthless scoundrel, was turned out of a boarding house for non-payment of board, and a trunk belonging to him was retained by the landlord. This piece of furniture was subsequently opened by his wife, and among its contents were one hundred and fifty love letters and a number of photographs from girls who had answered his adventismeut. These “ documents ” are in the hands of lawyers, and were made public in court The newspapers mercifully refrained from giving particulars, otherwise the foolish girls who wrote the letters and furnished their photographs might have been exposed. Another case recently occurred in this line which is also to be mentioned as a warning. A man advertised for correspondence, and was answered by, a daughter of respectable parents. The correspondence was continued, an engagement contracted and a day fixed for the wedding. At the appointed hour the man drove up to the house in a carriage, met the girl for the first time, was married; the girl got as far as Chicago on their wedding tour, where the woman was deserted, and compelled to return to her parents, heartbroken and disgraced. Wo do not suppose that an honest man ever advertised for correspondence with a view to matrimony, or for any other purpose, and girls should regard all such advertisements as frauds, to be avoided as they would the keepers of a common brothel.— Cincinnati Gazette. ■ -KT • . A man in Albany was arrested for robbery the other day on the fiimsy pretenljon® °£, a J or *une teller that he was a t '“ e *- *be court not receiving such sort of evidence discharged the man, and the prosecution now finds himself in trouble for false imprisonment. -.New York speculators have found that experience, however valuable "it may be is not taken as a collateral by money-lend-ers in Wall street. ■