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A Low Lived Scounrrel

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Report saj'B Dr. D. Nolan will return to this city. Events prove that ho is one of the most shameless scoundrels that ever lived. Last week Ann Arbor wa9 surprised with the announceincnt that he had been arrest ed in Detroit for assaultin? a nineteen-yearold giri. It was decided by the girl's parents to make no complaint against Nolan as a trial would give too great publicity to the affair. But bofore the doctor had time to congratúlate himself, a laborer came to the pólice station and said Nolan was his brother-in-law. Tnis brought to hght the fact that the doctor had had a wife in the east and had deserted her. Nolan wanted the man to keep still and promised to go back to wife nutnber one, but the man gave the story away. Nolan is said to have acknowledged the former marriage but says he did not commit bigamy as the woman who passes as his wife hero is only living with him and that they were never married. The charming little woman who has passed in this city as his wife, has been in hiding for ths last week ia Detroit, but was found Tuesday by the Detroit Kvening News. She is the daughter of respected Oatholic parents in the east. She feil in love with Nolan just after leaving a convent and when her relatives objected, consented to elope with him. Then she found he could Eot marry her as he alrsady had one wife, and came to this city to live with him. Last week she was heart-broken to learn of his faithlessness to her and wrote a penitent letter to her father, asking that she be allowed to return home. The "News" sajs: "In another home in Detroit, there is sorrow over the disgrace that came to it through this same Dr. Nolan. A gray-haired iather mourns far deeper than he would liad he seen his daughter buried. She was his pride; he sacriüced everything for her educaüon and her comfort. This is how ho is repaid. And there is jet another victim - the wife. What of her? Kolan deserted her two years ago. Nothing mee is known. Dr. Nolan was asked today what Le will do if he is released f rom the charges against him. 'I will go back to Ann Arbor and resume my practico, ' he raid. 'I haven't done anything I am ashamed of, that I can think of. I don't know why I shouldn't go back.' He deserted his wife. He carried a young woman away from home and friends to live in illicit relations with him. He took advantage of a poor, foolish girl who placed herself in his power for a few short hours. And then he saya: 'I have done nothing that I am ashamed of.' Dr. Nolan will undoubtedly go free. It is an instance of modern justice."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register