Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Sad Honeymoon.

About year ago young man named
Slosson, con of a wealthy citizen of Ra
cine, Wisconsin, fell in love with beau
tiful daughter of Mr.. Dowd, Mayor o
the same city, also gentleman of afflu
ent circumstances. The parents of tn,
young lady had good grounds for urging
objections TO her lover. whose character
was known. and they strenpously cp'
posed bis offer Of marriage. The young
people, however, were determined on
forming union. and 20 eloped to Ken.
ceba, Wis where they were duly bu,
clandestin.ly united in the indissoluble
: ties Of matiinony. Young Slosson soon
after came to Minneapolis. bis father fur.
nishing him means to purchase a fine
house and to live in a style of more than
ordinary comfort and elegance.
Slosson, it now transpires, was nothing
less than confirmed brute, and he early
commenced a systematic abuse of his
wife, often beating her in the most cruel
and outrageous manner. His unhappy
and unofending wife was totally in his
power, and for many months she bore
her outrageous treatment without COM
plant. Having left her home against the
inclinations and protests of her parents,
she did not acquaint them Yith the mis-
cry which followed the disregard of their
advice in marrying the heartless wretch
who had so grossly deceived her. Peo-
pie at the Falls, however. became ac-
quainted with lthe circumstances. and the
fact of Mrs. Slosson's ill-usage finally
reached the ears of Mayor Dowd, of Ra-
cine. and he at once sent Mrs. Dowd on
visit to their daughter to ascertain the
trT..a u. g. The .ass s sat sss!teett11segs: t1se.g::
A few weeks ago Mrs. Dowd reached
Minneapolis on tour of observation, and
she had not long to wait in the new
home of her daughter to find out that
the stories had not been exaggerated.
One morning. shortly ..after her;.arrival,
while at the breakfast table, young Slos-
son too exception to something. and pro-
ceeded at once to assault his wife. first
striking her with his first and then,
grasping her by the throat, choked her
nearly to death. The terrified mother
screamed and attempted to relieve her
daughter from the clutches of the cow
ardly brute, and in doing SO suffered Kin
like manner, for Slosson, leaving his wife
half dead, turned upon Mrs. Dowd and
knocked her down with the butt end of
a pistol, inAicting several terrible gashes
on her head, and bruising her so severe
ly that she was confined to her bed for
several days.
Mrs. Dowd, however, managed soon
after to telegraph the facts to her bus
band at Racine, who, with friend by
the name of Seymour, took the first
train for Minneapolis to rescue the hap
less women. Mr.. Dowd took charge of
his daughter, and started back to Racine
with her. leaving his wife still confined
to her bed at Minneapolis, with instruc
iions to follow with Mr. Seymour as soon
as che was able TO endure the fatigue of
the journey. Slosson, all this time, kept
out of the way, but shortly after the de-
parture of the father, he returned to the
house ana attacked the old lady, and he
was in the very act of beating her when
he was interrupted by policemen. WHO ;
were on the watch for him, and who re- {
taliated by pitching the savage ecoundrel
headlong down stairs.
Complaint was now made against the
scoundrel by the old lady, but
Slosson took leg bail. and struck out for
his old home, in Racine. Chief Kent
came to St. Paul, secured a requisition
from Governor Austin on the Governor
Of Wisconsin, and last week took the
trail of the unfeeling scoundrel. Ad
vices from Racine inform US that young
Slosson was seen at that place a day or
two before Kent's arrival, but with the
assistance of his father and some friends
be was secreted, and at last accounts
Chief Kent had not been able to lay his
bands on his man. Mr.. Kent, however, J
has by no means given up his pursuit.
and it earnestly to be hoped he may be
brought back to Minnesota, and if he
Toes not get a chance to try some of t.
Jackman's "duff" at Saltwater there is +
not as much virtue in Minneapolis judges G
Is they have credit for.-St. Pan Press.
The rapidity with which fish will
multiply is illustrated by the fact that
fourteen years ago fourteen black bass
we're placed in the Potomac river as an
experiment, and today that is the best
stream in the country for black bass
fishing.