The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-08-19
From the Daily Courier of 18th inst,
GRIM. CON.
Dr.. j. IL. Flint Elopes with An.
other Mans Wife!

we nave peeh IN possession OF the
circumstance of the most sensational
Grim con case which ever occurred in
this County for several days, but out
OF respect for the parties scandalized |
and with faint hope that the whole
affair might be susceptible of other
than criminal explanation, we have
thus tar RETAINED from giving it pu6-
LEFTY
Farther information coming into
our possession, rendering the guilt of
the principal actor and his paramount,
dnbitable, and the matter being al.
ready bruited about the streets, we
deeIn 1t proper to give the public all
the facts so far as we have boon able
l"obtain them of this astounding af
fair
The names ofthe parties, who have
p0aged their families into such deep
modification, are DR.. j. H. Flint ana
Mrs Il. Plank.
pr. Flint is, perhaps as well known
As any other man in Wapello Coun-
ty.
He was Il member Of the first
Territorial Legislature: was
candidate in 1916 for the first
constitutional convention was
elected to the Legislature with the
adoption of that instrument in 1876
Tor the Counties Of Wapello, Mon
roe, Lucas, Clark, &C., has been fee
qucntly in the Senate and House
from this County, and was County
Judge for four years. He has either
been in Office, or candidate for of.
lice, at the hands of the Democratic
party, COT which he was the ablest and
most popular member of this County,
full three fourths of the time since it's
first settlement. He was moreover
popular and highly successful Phys.
lean of the "Root and Yarb," persua-
sion, besides being recognized as one
Of the ablcst and most revered Minis.
ter OF tic Gospel of the Old School or
Hard Shell Baptist variety, in this
part of Iowa. We might say farther
that he has been regarded as the
ablcst and bitterest public speaker
and politician in the County, the
Democrats had, yet as an honest and
upright citizen, in all his financial
and social dealings, he has ever been
held by his political foes, even, as
above the breath of calumny.
Promising this much the reader is
perhaps lily prepared for the an
nouncement that he has under the
guisc of medical treatment syste-
matically debanched the wife of Mr..
E. Plank, one ofthe most respectable
citizen ofWapello County, living near
Dahlonoga; that he has been carry
ing on criminal connection with
her for two years at least, under the
prctence Of treating her for some
real OF imaginary disease, and that
this base criminality finally culmi-
natcd in thoir elopement TO parts un-
known, about two week ago, taking
with thcm her oldest and youngest
children, the former about about ten,
and the lattera baby, and of cours,
OF doubtful paternity.
The elopement was very ingenious
If devised, he pretending to start east
ah some business to require his alb
,ence two weeks, while she went to
Skunk river to see some relatives,
from where she was taken in q team
towards Oskaloosa, to visit an old
school mate, but most remarkably
;Hs unexpectedly meeting an old
ss4ptlemen when near that city, whom
she was delighted to see and who
kindly agreed to take her on to Oska
loosa, they sending the boy back,
which is the last we have heard of
these parties, of a reliable character.
Flint was about 60 and was the
last man in Wapello County, who
would have been suspected of being a
rake, while he was SO outrageously i'll
shaped stringhalted and homely,
that the conclusion is irresistible
that woman must have been slight
ly cracked to have abandoned homo,
husband, children and honor, to ac-
ccpt a guilty co-habitation with such
II scalawag. He leaves an aged wife
and u large and respectable family.
She was about 32 rather pretty and
leaves two children at home besides
the two taken with them. 7s