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Title: Seven Wives and Seven Prisons
Author: L.A. Abbott
Release Date: November, 2003 [Etext #4667]
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SEVEN WIVES AND SEVEN PRISONS ***
Produced by Charles Aldarondo
SEVEN WIVES AND SEVEN PRISONS
Or Experiences In The Life Of A Matrimonial Maniac. A True Story.
Written By Himself.
By L.A. Abbott
New York:
Published For The Author. 1870.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. THE FIRST AND WORST WIFE My Early History. The First
Marriage. Leaving Home to Prospect. Sending for My Wife. Her Mysterious
Journey. Where I Found Her. Ten Dollars for Nothing. A Fascinating Hotel
Clerk. My Wife's Confession. From Bad to Worse. Final Separation. Trial
for Forgery. A Private Marriage. Summary Separation.
CHAPTER II. MISERIES FROM MY SECOND MARRIAGE. Love-Making in
Massachusetts. Arrest for Bigamy. Trial at Northampton. A Stunning
Sentence. Sent to State Prison. Learning the Brush Business. Sharpening
Picks. Prison Fare. In the Hospital. Kind Treatment. Successful
Horse-Shoeing. The Warden my Friend. Efforts for my Release. A Full
Pardon.
CHAPTER III. THE SCHEIMER SENSATION. The Scheimer Family. In Love
With Sarah. Attempt to Elope. How it was Prevented. Second Attempt. A
Midnight Expedition. The Alarm. A Frightful Beating. Escape, Flogging
the Devil out of Sarah. Return to New Jersey. "Boston Yankee." Plans to
Secure Sarah.
CHAPTER IV. SUCCESS WITH SARAH. Mary Smith as a Confederate. The Plot.
Waiting in the Woods. The Spy Outwitted. Sarah Secured. The Pursuers
Baffled. Night on the Road. Efforts to Get Married. "The Old Offender."
Married at Last. A Constable after Sarah. He Gives it Up. An Ale Orgie.
Return to "Boston Yankee's." A Home in Goshen.
CHAPTER V. HOW THE SCHEIMERS MADE ME SUFFER. Return to Scheimer's.
Peace, and then Pandemonium. Frightful Family Row. Running for Refuge.
The Gang Again. Arrest at Midnight. Struggle with my Captors. In Jail
Once More. Put in Irons. A Horrible Prison. Breaking Out. The Dungeon.
Sarah's Baby.. Curiou
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