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Title: Seven Wives and Seven Prisons
Author: L.A. Abbott
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SEVEN WIVES AND SEVEN PRISONS:
OR EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF A

MATRIMONIAL MANIAC. A TRUE STORY.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1870.

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. . Curious Compromises. Old
Scheimer my Jailer. Signing a Bond. Free Again. Last Words from
Sarah,

CHAPTER VI. FREE LIFE AND FISHING. Taking Care of Crazy Men.
Carrying off a Boy. Arrested for Stealing my Own Horse and Buggy.
Fishing in Lake Winnepisiogee. An Odd Landlord. A Woman as Big as a
Hogshead. Reducing the Hogshead to a Barrel. Wonderful Verification
of a Dream. Successful Medical Practice. A Busy Winter in New
Hampshire. Blandishments of Captain Brown. I go to Newark, New
Jersey,

CHAPTER VII. WEDDING A WIDOW AND THE CONSEQUENCES. I Marry a Widow.
Six Weeks of Happiness. Confiding a Secret, and the Consequences.
The Widow's Brother. Sudden Flight from Newark. In Hartford, Conn.
My Wife's Sister Betrays Me. Trial for Bigamy. Sentenced to Ten
Years' Imprisonment. I Become a "Bobbin Boy." A Good Friend.
Governor Price Visits me in Prison. He Pardons Me. Ten Years'
Sentence Fulfilled in Seven Months,

CHAPTER VIII. ON THE KEEN SCENT. Good Resolutions. Enjoying Freedom.
Going After a Crazy Man. The Old Tempter in a New Form. Mary Gordon.
My New "Cousin." Engaged Again. Visit to the Old Folks at Home.
Another Marriage. Starting for Ohio. Change of Plans. Domestic
Quarrels. Unpleasant Stories about Mary. Bound Over to Keep the
Peace. Another Arrest for Bigamy. A Sudden Flight. Secreted Three
Weeks in a Farm House. Recaptured at Concord. Escaped Once More.
Traveling on the Underground Railroad. In Canada,

CHAPTER IX. MARRYING TWO MILLINERS. Back in Vermont. Fresh
Temptations. Margaret Bradley. Wine and Women. A Mock Marriage in
Troy. The False Certificate. Medicine and Millinery. Eliza Gurnsey.
A Spree at Saratoga. Marrying Another Milliner. Again Arrested for
Bigamy. In Jail Eleven Months. A Tedious Trial. Found Guilty. Appeal
to Supreme Court. Trying to Break Out of Jail. A Governor's Promise.
Second Trial. Sentenced to Three Years' Imprisonment,

CHAPTER X. PRISON LIFE IN VERMONT. Entering Prison. The Scythe Snath
Business. Blistered Hands. I Learn Nothing. Threaten to Kill the
Shop Keeper. Locksmithing. Open Rebellion. Six Weeks in the Dungeon.
Escape of a Prisoner. In the Dungeon Again. The Mad Man Hall. He
Attempts to Murder the Deputy. I Save Morey's Life. Howling in the
Black Hole. Taking Off Hall's Irons. A Ghastly Spectacle. A Prison
Funeral. I am Let Alone. The Full Term of my Imprisonment,

CHAPTER XI. ON THE TRAMP. The Day of my Deliverance. Out of Clothes.
Sharing with a Beggar. A Good Friend. Tramping Through the Snow.
Weary Walks. Trusting to Luck. Comfort at Concord. At Meredith
Bridge. The Blaisdells. Last of the "Blossom" Business. Making Money
at Portsmouth. Revisiting Windsor. An Astonished Warden. Making
Friends of Enemies. Inspecting the Prison. Going to Port Jervis,

CHAPTER XII. ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP SARAH SCHEIMER'S BOY. Starting to See
Sarah. The Long Separation. What I Learned About Her. Her Drunken
Husband. Change of Plan. A Suddenly-Formed Scheme. I Find Sarah's
Son. The First Interview. Resolve to Kidnap the Boy. Remonstrance of
my Son Henry. The Attempt. A Desperate Struggle. The Rescue. Arrest