Louis The Candidates’ Ball By Herbert Q. Percival What an evening for surprises! I assumed all along, that it would be the misdeeds of warehouse and dock owner, Mr. Winston Beckermann, which would provide the most salacious gossip for this year’s election. I was so very wrong. Certainly bribery, extortion and embezzlement have their place, and I promise to get to them in due time. But first, let us take a look at the deliciously unsavory tale of Nicolas Hansen. When pressed at the Ball, Mr. Hansen readily admitted that he was a bit preemptory in his relations with his current wife, she being divorced, and their daughter born a scant month following the nuptials. But he failed to mention a broken engagement with his first wife’s younger sister, who was thrown over in favor of the divorcee. He also left out the element where he locked her first husband in his root cellar, while dispatching a minion to procure her divorce. As one would hope, all of these misdeeds did land Mr. Hansen in jail right here in St.
