, 1873-03-26
A CURIOUS CASE.
Two Women Elopo With n Single
Lovor--.Exso Husbands Arrive and

LoPor.sIWo lausDnnns ArrAvo nhd
Find Them Not.
From tho 81. touts Democrat, March ~.
A curious oaso has Just como under tho cyos
Of the police, In which two women aro supposed
to hayo olopoa with onc lover, who oarrios them
away from their husbands, and which probably
ntand8 unparalleled In tho annals Of tho tuntor
A little over weok ago thoro arrivod at
hotel In tho contra! part Of town, rathor late IN
tlo ovenng, gentloman With Two ladii;es. one q, Of
othor with ono. Ho stated that Ito Ind
Just arrived on flo train, aud roglatoring US
"rhomas Hughes aud family, "etho entire party
remsinod @ fow dsys. and at tic end Of that timo
Mr.. Hughoa came 10 the landlord and paid tho
bill with tho exception Of fow dollars, fox
which 10 loft hts trunk aa aconrity.
Nothing moro was thought OF tho n,nttcr un-
I'll tho noxt dAy, whom o stranger stopped Into
tho office, aud inquired IL . woman. answering
tho description OF tho Younger had bonn atop.
ping In tho house. On bolng nnsworod In tho
eamna tat she esUKe s WIFE, an
Ing with hor tho ollildron aud all Ills
available oftootn;., On being shown tho
fSs'rYH s YHuesas If rs ta9 Ray Ry.rar ns an nifssa sd
once before elopod with another mana wife, aud
expressed tho determination to find them II it
took al his lifo. His namo ho rogiaterel rs
Frank SAKE, Of Nashville. and ho stated that ho
was railroad ongineer.
On tho noxt day second stranger arrivod also
In search Of o missing wife, whom ho quickly
identified cs tho'othor companion OF Hughes.
The necond stranger WAS John Garrett, nlso OF
Nashville. =
Mr. Haxo learned In tho courso Of The eonversa-
tiou from tho landlord that Hughes had loft hia
baggage at the hotel in security for tho Payment
Of Iia board, and found among 1t trunk which
he identified as his property, which he
cautioned tho landlord to retain in case Hughes
should call. They walked around tho hotel for
several days, making excursions occasionally
through tho city, and cnlonvoring by every
means to find their missing wives; but in vain:
On Monday Garrett gave up all hope, and; loft
for homo. Sake remaining here.
Finding no trace Of thom in tho city, howovcr,
Sake won't across tho river Wednesday morning
to pravont them from escaping on the railroads
going East and North, In tho evening, before
lie returned o spring wagon drovo up boforo tho
door Of the hotel, from which Hnghoa alightcd.
On asking for his trunks tho landlord ,ro-
fused to doliver thom unlosa he could
specify their contontB, and on one protoxt and
dispatched for tho purpose arrived With polino-
man. Whom tho officer and he uassod out tho
door Of the hotol Hughes WAS permitted to spoak
to tho driYor Of tho wagon aud whispered q few
words III his ear. On thcir way to tho Four
Courts tho officer sonndod his prisoner, and ns-
Contained from him that Mrs. 6axo was waiting
for him ut the Iron Mountain Depot and TINT
they would hnvo left On tho noxt trim.
Hughes waB taken to tho -Four Courts, where
be ID eWeiting further Developments IN tho oase
Nothing has boon heard from Sare since ho wont
to East st, Louin, and it ia thought le may have
drowned himself In tito river. Hughes, 1t ia
stated, has brother keeping n snloon on Droad-
WY, and it is thought ho furnished tho wagon
Which WAS to tnhe their trunks to tho depot.