The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-05-27


Wife DesertiOn!-A Man eIOpes with a
Woman, the Mother of several Chill
drenI!
We have refrained heretofore from giving
publicity to an event which happened some
few weeks since in this place, but propose at
this time to give a brief statement of the facts
as we learned them, only suppressing the
names OF the parties for Obvious reasons. The
man implicated in the transaction Is, or was, a
| stranger in our midst, as, indeed, at the time,
were all the parties, and is a perambulating
genius dealing in some patent right or other,
through the country, whereby he realizes a
handsome income. In his peregrination he
found his way to Michigan, accompanied by
his wife, poor in health, but pleasing in ap-
| pearance, winning IN manner, and by educa-
ton competent to adorn any station in life
as all testify Who have had the opportunity of
becoming acquainted with her.
In Michigan, the business Of 1--WE shall call
him for the sake of convenience Mr.. K
was very prosperous, and he tarried in a cer-
tain town in that Commonwealth a considera-
bic period;-longer, for that matter, than his
business transactions would warrant, and his
wife, on investigation, found that the chief
reason Of his delay was a taisOn he had formed
with a female of this place-a divorced wo-
man, as we understand, with several children
one or two of whom 1t Is said cannot be ae-
counted for. OF course, the disclosure of the
| asituation" to the wife, caused council of
war to be held. wherein the husband declar-
ed that the reason of his conduct lay in the
fact that he had formed an attachment for a
little boy, son of the strange woman, from
whom he disliked to be separated. To do any
| thing that should reclaim her husband, and
| lead him in the paths OF recttude and virtue,
even to humilition of spirit, was she willing,
! and proposed to him IN consideration of his
Immediately leaving the place, and thencefor-
ward conducting himself with proprietv, to
take with her the boy he professed attachment
/ for, and bring him up as son of their own.
This proposal apparently satisfied the hus-
| band, and in due course of time the three ar
rived in Norwalk, and sought and
obtained board at one of our most prominent
| boarding-houses.
Everything here passed smoothly for several
days.-One morning, however, an indescriba-
| BILE feeling possessed the mind of the injured
/ wife that the Michigan woman was in Nor
\ walk. She determined to know the truth, and
| to that end, among other means, she repaired
to the st. Charles Hotal one morning, and in
quirad at the Office if this woman giving the
name she was known by in Michigan) was
| stopping thereat.-The answer returned was
that no person bearing that name was a guest
/ in the house. Mrs. K then asked the
clerk if he could tell from q photograph
whether the prototype were occupying rooms
there, to which he answered in the affirmative.
| Mrs. k thereupon took her departure,
but soon returned with a likeness which she
/ had before discovered in her husbands trunk
and showing it to the clerk, was informed
that a woman very closely resembling it was
| stopping there. She Immediately demanded,
an audience with her, and was shown at once
to her room. What passed between the two
/ - TT,fa oar hot4nr hn -
the individual reader; we only know that a
sharp scene esued, for though our heroine is a
| verv small woman, she is undoubtedly a de-
termined one, and under the circumstances
was in no mood to be trifed with. She de-
manded that the stranger leave town instan-
ter, nor would she brook delay, but the noon
train must nd Norwalk Of her presence for
ever. The terms were agreed to; and to know
for certainty that such should be he case,
Mrs. K repaired to the depot of the ap-
pointed time, to witness the falillment of the
stipulation. The strange woman was there
and when the train arrived she took her place
therein but what was Mrs. ks aston
ishment and ehagrin, when her husband also
put is his appearance! He entered the car and
held conversation with his paramour, and
though he soon re-appeared without her, and
the train left the depot soon after, the suppo-
sition is that the Michigan female likewise
| slipped rom the car on TIE opposite SIDE OF tbl
train! Be this as it may, however, nothing
further was seen or heard of her, so far'as we
learn;-but in day or two Mr.. K took
his departure, leaving his wife and the chilo
before referred to, alone, without means, de
pendent on the charity of friends she had
found, heretofore to her perfect strangers
Whether she has friends elsewhere, or whether
she is left, feeble as she is in health to battle
with the world alone, we are unable to state
but with these facts related, we can but pro
nounce the affair one of the most cruel ant
heartless of which we have ever heard men
ti6n.-NoroaH Reflector.