The Old TImes: LEAVES NOTE AND $2


 Here's a quick little blurb from The Detroit Times on June 19th, 1909. Nestled among the many stories of crime, suicide, and corruption which tend to be quite popular at this time, is this little heart warming story of matrimonial abandonment that really warms the heart.

LEAVES NOTE AND $2.

Mrs. Pidgeon Tells Police Husband Has Deserted Her.

"There's no use of trying any longer. We can't get along, and I'm away, Good-bye."

This note, and a $2 bill, was what Mrs. Pidgeon, a bride of three months, found on her dresser when she awoke Saturday morning, according to her story to Justice Stein, to whom she appealed for help.

The deserted bride is employed at Finck's overall factory, where she has worked ever since her marriage to her husband, who, she says, is a machinist.

"I used to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and iron his shirts for him, and then go to work and earn money to keep the house with," she sobbed, as she told her story to the judge.

He advised her to wait for a few days, and if the husband does not re- turn, to call again and get a warrant for desertion.  

The Ballad of Mrs. Pidgeon, a heartbreaking sob story for the ages. Mr. Pidgeon had it all; a machinist job at the overall factory, a wife who irons, a beautiful new bride, and at least $2. But he gave that all up for a life on the lam. And as bad as I feel for his bride, maybe going to a Judge and trying to get a warrant out for his ass isn't the most copacetic reaction at this time. 

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