The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-04

A GAY AND FESTIVE CUss BROUGHT Up
WITH A ROUND TURN-Friday morning, the
lst inst. there arrived at the Island City Ho-
tel, a sad looking woman in search of her
truant husband. who is freight conductor
on the Chicago. Rock Island q Pacific rail
road named William Carpenter Teat, and
who is now running on the Peoria Branch of
that road. From her we learn. the following
facts: Her maiden name was Amelia Tur-
ner, and she was married to Teat. in Buffalo,
n. Y, Feb'y5, lS58-nine years ago. Teat
was then brakeman on the Buffalo L Lake
Huron railroaa. They lived togetherat Buff
falo, and at various places on the line of that
road, until June 1865, when he (being then
out of employment left for the west, under
pretense of seeking work, promising TO re-
turn for her rs soon as he could find work.
He never returned, bnt continued To CORES
pond with her until last February, always
telling the same story Of mo work and no
money" During all this time, she says, he
never sent her a dollar in money to support
herself and four children. one of which was
born about month after he left her. She
was poor and he left her less than a hundred
dollars to live on, but, through her friends
and by taking few boarders and by hard
work, she has been enabled to live. The
first of his letters was from Dayton Ohio. and
the last from Chicago.
After waiting until she had given up hopes
of hearing from him again. she learned that
he left Buffalo with a bad girl, named Ida
Simpson, alias Pryor; that he had lived with
her ever since he left, and was then living
with this girl in Rock Island She immed-
lately started for Rock Island, arriving. as
stated above. but found that Teat was at
Chicago and his paramount had left here on
Thursday night, THE train before Mrs. T'eat
arrivedl for Bureau junction, in answer to a
| letter from Teat, to meet him there.
The real Mrs. Teat sent for City Marshal
Chopper, and after consulting with him on
the subject he left for Bureau junction on
Friday night expecting to catch Teat on
the down train-but he did not come, and
MIR. Chopper proceeded Chicago, and, af
ter good deal of trouble, found him and
"his woman in '|caboose car, just ready
to leave for Rock Island. Mr.. Chopper Sc
cured him at once, and ironed him. 1t was
then II o'clock Saturday night, and he took
him to jail, in Chicago, where he kept him
until II o'clock Sunday night, when he start
ed for this city, arriving here at $50 this
Monday morning, and committed him to
jail.
Teat is gay and festive fellow, about 80
years of age, and his wife is also of the same
age. When he first came to this city with
his paramount, he rented house in the lst
ward, where he resided for some time. He
then secured the small, one story brick, be-
longing to o. J. Dimick, on Jefferson street,
near the Island City Hotel, where, with his
| Ida, and servant girl, he has since been
| living, his house being well furnished and he
having the shameless impudence to introduce
'his woman into respectable families here
as his wife.
/ Some of his furniture was purchased on
credit-the stoves of Swiler Il Burgh, who
have, since the woman left, taken them out
of the house.
| The fellow has run a gay career, for the
past two years, while his poor wife has been
| struggling in poverty to support herself and
| her children.
''Ida" was left in the "caboose car" to
shift for herself, instead of bringing her here
to make bill of expense to the county.
The examination of Teat was set for o
clock to-day before Esq. Wagner, but has
been postponed until tomorrow.
Sweeney Jackson are acting as prosecu-
tors, and the prospect is that Mr. T. will dc
the state some service at Joliet.