The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-10-31


The Wife of a HOtel-keeper Robs
Her Husband and Runs Away With
an Ex-Mayor.
Inc god Of marriage never made chain
that Cupid could not break, and ever since the
world began the rosy boy has at his hated
semi brother laughed. The;ons is free as air,
and all the law his votaries care to know is
that Of sympathy. His words, his voice, his
acts are tenderness, and this he only uses for
tie. The other, although upon his brow he
wears wreath of orange blossoms, and with
musical voice entreats migrations into his do
main, bears sternness in his look and hard
ness in his heart, and binds his followers in
fetters from which they can by love alone be
freed.
These enemies to each other are also in some
sort the enemies OF man, and both by various
means disturb oftimes his peace The methods
and the circumstances, by and under which
they torture poor humanity seldom reach the
public ear for when persons are victimizsd
even by the gods, they rather choose to bear
in silence all their wrongs than speak single
one unto the world. Occasionally, however,
they become too great to bear and then they
cause an elopement or death, and both Of
these make such vacuum in society that they
A month or two ago man who keeps a
hotel in a city not far from Cincinnati was
robbed of nearly $500, under peculiar circum-
stances. The money was in gold coin, and
had been placed in such position in the
house that it could not have been taken but
by some one who was well acquainted with
the premises. His wife was the only person
who could have been aware of its wherea-
bouts, and although we know not where it
had been secreted, have been assured that it
was the last place in which a burglar would
have thought Of seeking plunder.
The establishment, however, was opened
and the money taken. The wife was loudest
and far the most vehement in her expression
of surprise when the robbery became known,
and although the husband felt satisfied that
some one in the house had committed the
theft, he knew not whom to blame. His wife
had, in appearance, at least, been growing
more and more fond of him daily since she
had been wed, and sympathized with him 80
deeply in his misfortune that no single stray
suspicion entered his puzzled mind that she
had done it. Still on the alert, and hoping
to discover the perpetrator of the felony, time,
passed on, and the matter was as much a..
mystery as before.
week or two ago she concluded to visit
some relatives who reside in Louisville, and in
company with the usual amount of travelling
parapherpalia she took passage on the mall
boat for that city. Her husband accompanied
her to the landing, and their parting was the
most tender that could have been conceived.
Not the addio between "Gilda" and her lover j,
or the good. might of "Romeo" and "Juliet" I"
was more pathetic, or more reluctant than tile
parting Of our Boniface and his bride.
The day before the lady left her home, ho W.
ever, an Ex-Mayor, whose name we will not
write, had bade his friends and family "good-
by" for the ostensible purpose of going to
Pittsburg to purchase stock. 1t is not prooa-
BILE he ever reached the "smoky olty," for two
days afterward he was seen in Louisville, and
in company with the lady, who her husband
and her friends had thought was visiting her
relatives, he left that city for the North upon
the train for Lexington.
Since then the pair have not been seen by
any one who knew them, nor by those to whom
they should have written, have they been
heard from. The deserted husband first
wrote TO Louisville and then visited it; but his
wife could not be found and then he knew that
Love had broken all of Hemyn's chains, and
left him at once penniless and wifeless. For
the last, just now, he doubtless thanks the
blind but laughing boy, and for the first he
curses alone the fate that married him.
The couple who 80 suddenly left their
homes and families, but for the double theft,
is, he wishes that every time the truant male
treacherous wife, he may think of the wrong
he hopes they may be happy.