New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-03

Iar as CAIRO, Witnout catching them, came down
by the railroads, and arrived Thursday evening.
| He soon found his way to the lookup, where he
was allowed to have sight of his guilty wife and
her paramour, in one of the cells, with his two
little innocents sleeping sweetyona pallet at their
feet. The guilty ones were, naturally, much terri
fed. The wronged man shed tears at the sight OF
his children, and the wife he had so fondly loved
and trusted in such place; at the same time he
showed most passionate desire to get at and eat
Mr.. Owens, which he could have done easily, judg
ing from the relative size and appearance Of the
| two men. 88
! The story was, that both men were farmers, fv-
ing near Vncennes, Indiana, and were brothers-in-
law, Owens being married to Smiths sister, and
having baseIy deserted her and their six children,
in order to run away with Mrs. Smith and her two
children. The two families had always been socia-
BILE, and good neighbors; and Smith never suspect
i ed anything wrong about Owens till his own wife
/ and children disappeared from home. Owens had
sold his farm previously, TO his fatherin-law, and
left for st. Louis under tile pretence Of purchasing
i land in Missouri. From st. Louis came report
that he had been accidentally drowned. It was
just after the receipt of this melancholy that
4 Mrs. Smith and her children disappeared. Mr..
Smith at once went to Evansville, on the Ohio, (the
| nearest port to Vineennes,) and found that the
Il fugtives had embarked on the steamer Bay State
for st. Louis. He at took the railroad for Sc
Louis, and there found from the officers of the Bay
State that the fugitives had landed at Cairo. He
fied him down by the cars to Cairo and there
found that the faithless had left for New Or
/ leans on the steamer Cora Anderson. He at once
telegraphed to this city for their arrest, and fol-
| lowed US rapidly as possible, taking the rail-
4 road at the first convenient point. The telegraph
| enabled him to stop the runaways, and the cars
enabled him to get here almost as soon as they.
/ But for the long start they had of him from Evans
vile and Cairo, he would have been here some
| time in advance of them. Smith was accompanied
by his father Owens father-n-law) on the chase
| as far as Cairo where his great haste compelled
| him to leave the old man behind.
1 Owens, or Patton, (the latter being the assumed
name under which he traveled) had always been
/ considered around home very upright and honest
| man, with singularly pious turn of mind. Com
4 ing down on the Cora Anderson, it seems he was
more pious than ever. His religious carrying on,
and his loud psalm.singing with his supposed wife.
became so distressing on board, and such an an
noyance to the other passengers, that the Captain
at last went to them and asked them to quit.
1 Owens and his newly-adopted family Ell route
i to Texas, he having sent word ahead to some one
to engage passage for himself and wife and child
rem on the first Red river boat that might be upfor
departure
To return to the scenes at the lookup, Mrs
Smith was terribly afraid that her husband would
get at Owens and kill him, and begged the officers
not to let him in the cell. This the officers prom
ised1o do. Smith said all he wanted was his chill
dren; his wife might go, though he would always
love her, despite her error She was willing to
give up the oldest child, but not the youngest He
gave her 10 understand that he would have both
the children. She became penitent and fearful; j;
made up her mind to let Owens 60 rather than her
baby; talked her husband into the melting mood :
and the result was that he forgave her so far as to
take her back home with the children. Yesterday
morning he took them away from the lookup
overhauled Owens baggage, and took everything
that belonged to his wife; and not having extra
trunks of his own to carry the plumber took Owens
trunk and carpet-hag, and left the value of the
same with the clerk to pay to Owens. Before
leaving, he asked the favor Of u personal inter
/ view with Owens, This the officers refused, Re-
marking that he would kill Owens the first time he
got chance at him, he left with his family and
baggage, to take passage On an up-riyer boat
Owens, a countryfied-ooking fellow, tall and
thin, with thin and solemn-looking face, and red
dish hair and whiskers, and a hypocritical nasal
! twang in his speech, remained covering in cor
ner Of his cell, perfect specimen of guilty and
abject cowardice as can we'll be imagined. He
was perpetually in fear that Smith would come and
> kill him, and begged the officers for Gods sake,
to keep him in the cell until Smith should be out
of town. -,
a few hours after Smith left, the cnlprt was
! turned out. He loitered around the police office
! for some time as il afraid to leave Collecting his
Clothes which Smith had heayed out of his trunk,
stuifing all he could into his only remaining
I pet-bag, and receiving from the clerk the money
which Smith had left to pay for his trunk aud other
0 carpetbag, he went to the Chief of Police and in
; an injured manner complained that Smith had left
only the value of the trunk and not the carpet
bag; also that he had taken of his shirts and
q pair of black pants! The Chief asked him,
&c Which way do you intend to travel now, sir?''
$ He answered, very gravely, 8 have exactly
made up my mind yet which way I'll co.
a When arrested, on Thursday, and put into the
lookup he put on indignant airs, and wished to
s know if he was not dealing with gentlemen. One
= Of the officers answered, Yes, and with people
is who would hang you if you were TO do such q
thing in these parts He subsequently stated that
IS he believed people in this community would blame
r him under present circumstances, but would not
if they knew all; as Mrs Smith had run off with
It him, and not he with her! We did not hear which
4 wa Owens went.
Ruantng of Free Negroes as Staves.-Yester
dag morning the steamer Ingomar reached the
stnIk Landing and stopped there. Capt. Clarke
/ sent messenger down TO the office of the Chic
e of Police requesting officers to be at the levee
when the boat got down, to take in charge fancy
N party he had on board who were on their way te
Texas. As soon as the boat reached the levee
2, special officers Boylan and Howard went on board
n and arrested man giving his name as DIR. Chase
IS who had with him wife and two young children
q and two negroes, and an old black woman and hel
Is griffe son, youth of nineteen or twenty. Ths
whole party were taken to the lookup and put il
y separate cells, except the wife and children
ID Chase, who were not locked up, but at the sam'
time separated from their protector.
a The wife, a nice, ladylike looking woman Wit
at baby in her arms and sweet little toddler cling
ID ing TO her skirts, carried on at dreadful rate
y. weeping, sobbng, and begging to be locked u
" with her husband. She was offered escort to som
lg hotel or boarding houses this she refused, and
er she could not get permission to be locked up wit
ly her husband, she determined to stay rs near