The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-09-28
23-NUMBER 30
From tie Kansas City Mo- Times. Sept. s..
A Foolish Young Wife.

Soon after the arrival of the eleven
O'Clock Hannibal and st. Joseph train
on Monday night, the railroad "bus''
deposited at one OF our principal hO-
tells young and beautiful girl, about
nineteen years of age. She had no
baggage, and was apparently in great
distress. 1t was with a trem bling and
chOked voice that she gave her name
to the night clerk and desired to be
shown to a room. In the morning
the landiady of the hotel waited upon
her, and, after considerable difficulty,
ELECTED the following history of her
trOUtlas: Her name she gave as Etha
Adams. She had left her parents
home, near Lima, Allen county,
Ohio, one week ago, the restless, dis
satisfied wife of a young farmer, who
had been given to her as her husband.
They had been schOOlmates together
in childhood, but of late years, they
had been separated, she attending
school at Oberlin, and he working on
his fathers farm. The marriage was
not Objectionable to her, neither was
/ it her choice. The young couple were
married and took the train at Nor
walk for CleYeland, where they took
/ passage via the lakes, for Chicago, in
I tending, as she states, to visit some
/ friends of her husband near Elgin, Ill.
! The steamer was crowded with q
! gay and festive cosmopolitan crowd,
/ including preachers, gamblers, far
4 mers, traders, tourists and School
marms." The evenings were long
and pleasant and the company sOcia-
| bic. In the company on board was a
party from Buffalo, among whom was
a good looking, well dressed youth,
not more than twenty-five years Of
trOduced. George ID. Rankin and
friendly, and TO pass the evenings
away, Mrs Adams, who had been
nurtured in the lap Of free-lOveism,
proposed a game Of "Planehette.'
The mysterious board was produced,
and, as she says, cit worked to
charm" They played with the trim
ket every evening upon the cabin ta-
bic, and from it she learned that Mr..
Rankin was her true husband, and
that nothing should intervene to keep
them separate. Through the mis-
chievous 'Planehette" Rankin plan
ned an elopement at Milwaukee, and
a flight to his friends in Colorado.
The stOlid young farmer, busy with
the fast youths on the fOFecastle
and deck, noticed nothing unusual
in the close intimacy between his
Etha and the young New Yorker, nor
did he suspect anything when she
asked and obtained from him his well
filled pocket book, The New Yorker
and Mrs. Adams took a short walk
while the steamer touched at Milwau-
kee, and of course forgot to return. a
fast night train carried them to
Chicago, and then on to Quincy,
where they tarTied i'm cOncealment to
watch for and eIude pursuit. While
there Rankin obtained possession OF
her money, amounting to nearly ST.
600, and exchanged n worthless gilt
ring for a diamond One-a gift from
her mother. They continued their
Journey on Monday, and all went we'll
until they reached Cameron, when
her affinity" Rankin, left her, as he
said, "for few minutes to take a
smoke in q forward carr He did not
return; the train moved on but he
came not. Mrs. Adams became anX-
iOus she called the conductor; he had
a note for her, written on one of
Rankin's own cards. 1t said:
DEAR GIRL Il am called suddenly
away from you. Return to your
chubby" at Elgin until call for you.
Au reVoir. GEORGE.
The train brought the eshame-striek-
en- wife to Kansas City without bag
gage or means to return home. Her
dream of love was suddenly broken,
her cup of joy dashed aside, and she
now realizes the first bitter lesson of
human depravity and tho folly of
"Planchette."
Fortunately she remembered that
her mother had friends living in the
city, and yesterday, by the aid of the
police, found one of them in Mr.. D. P.
JamisOn, proprietor of a railroad
boarding house I'm the Bottom. There
she will remain until her husband
calls or sends for her.