Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-19
A Bogus General and Runaway
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The following piece of news, transpiring
at Steubenville. Ohio, which we clip from
the Cincinnati Enquirer, may be of interest
to our readers
Quite an animated scene took place re-
Gently at a downtown hotel, the name of
which, as we'll as the principal actors in
the little drama, we suppress through pru
Dental motives. On Friday last gentle
man and lady arrived at the hotel and en-
gagged a suite of rooms, registering their
names as Gen. BIS and lady.
The air of the gentleman being decidedly
military, and, on the whole. very distiRgue,
and the lady having all the outward bear
ing of one of the ton, they were treated to
the greatest consideration, and all their or
ders anticipated by the most assiduous of
pates.
Every day they went out carriage riding,
visiting our many suburban localities of
beauty, and adorning with their stately
presence the auditoriums of our places of
amusement each evening. They dispensed
gifts to the servants with the most lavish
prodigality, and until yesterday at noon
their popularity was in the zenith.
At that hour, however, a blight came
upon their happiness, and in the shape of
an excited gentleman, who stalked up to
the fastidious clerk and inquired in accents
almost uHiHtelligible by hasty articulation,
lila fellow styling himself General BIS,
with a afair-compleXioned woman, was not
stopping there ?" 7 .5z-
The clerk glanced askance at the travel
stained garb of his interrogator, aud an
swered that the parties inquired for could
be found in room No. 13, second floor. The
stranger was about to bound up the wooden
stair way, when those of whom he was in
search came down -arm-in-arm, laughing
and chatting in lively and joyous man
ner.
+ AS the woman's eyes fell on the new
conner she turned pale and dropping the
arm OF her companion, attempted to rush
up stairs again. Her steps were soon ar
rested, however, by the former, who de-
manded, in loud voice, to know where
she was going. The military man grew very
indignant at this apparent rudeness, and de-
manded to know what it all meant. His
nerves, fiat all sensitive, were doubtless
shocked by the reply, :" 1t means, sir, that
thisis mywife, and if you don't leave ID
quick, III blow the top of your head
off," The lady screamed, the hush md
looked wrathiul, and the bogus General
valuables O. and decamped, leaving the
guilty wife and injured husband to rearh
reconciliation by whatever road they might
deem most expedient. rf fEl.E
The unfortunate twain left for their
home in Hancock county, West Virginia,
shortly after,-the husband promising to
forgive his better half for their children's
sake, they being ignorant of their mothers
guilty fight.1 % EoEH 5s
1t. appears the parties are all very re-
Speciality connected, and at the time the
woman was seduced she was on visit to
some friends in Steubenville. Ohio, where
she met and became enamored of the re-
puted General. From what information
we have in our possession, we are lead to
believe that the scoundrel who thus tam
pered with the honor of a family is a
sharper who has no claim whatever to the
title assumed. r-~s-- s.-.7-. r-