Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-17
Twenty-Five thousand.

Without going to the trouble of an
elaborate introduction (the weather2s
too hot), and moralizing on the ingras-
itude of the human race and the eEor-
nifty Of the ofense hereinafter set
forth, We will plunge IN nsedias res.
About this time of the year 1865,
Miss Annie b. Hooper, who was then
in her 10Th year and lived in one Of
the wealthiest counties in Mississippi,
was married to DR.. Walter Benton
On November 20, 1869, three years
after, he was killed on train in Cali
fornia while on his way to visit sick
relative. The shock Of the news caused
the death of the relative in very short
time after it was broached to him.
The widow (Mrs. Benson) who was
at the time in Mississippi nursing
young child, brought suit against the
railway for $4,000 damages, and in
trusted the cause to her brother in-law
N. G. Thomas, who was also her agent
for the property left her by the sudden
death Of her husband He prosecuted
the suit vigorously, until very recent
ly, when lie managed to effect COM
promise with the company for S25, 900.
In the meantime Mrs. Benton left
Mississippi and came to Little Rock,
and married a year ago last May.
The second husband died in Septem-
ber of last year.
Several weeks ago Thomas wrote to
Mrs. Benton( we use her first husbands
name for sufficient reasons) to meet
him in St. Louis about the 18th OF
goth of May, as he had effected a COM
promise for S25, 900 with the company.
On account Of delays not necessary to
mention, she did not reach St. Louis
until the goth of May. She stopped
at the Grand Central Hotel at first,
and then went to the Olive Street
House, in all being in the city about
ten days All her efforts to find Tho
mas were unavailing, and at last, be-
lieving that be had absconded with
the money, she put the case in the
hands of the Chief Of Detectives of st.
Louis, Captain Harrigan. Thomas is
supposed to have received in cash from
the railroad company sl2: 900, together
with the notes and other papers,
amounting in all to s25,000.
Mrs. Benton reached Little Rock
again Wednesday morning, having del
egated the finding of her rascally
brother-in-law to the detectives. Fol-
lowing is description Of Thomas, as
furnished by Mr.. Benton to the detec-
tives: He is lawyer by profession,
intellectual, uses fine language, about
81 years old, feet u inches high
dark complexion, dark eyes, very heavy
dark-brown mustache, tolerably thin
brown hair, quick-spoken, with a low
mild voice, erect in figure, very frail
and delicate in appearance. Roman
nose, left canine tooth extracted from
the upper jaw, feet very small, wears
No. 4. shoe, quiet in his manners,
CANDLES frequently at cards, and lives
in Mississippi, where he has property,
a wife and children.-Little Rock
Republican June, 5tb.
WOMAN ARTISTS IN ENGLAND
The hundred and sixth exhibition of
the Royal Academy took place as usual
at London on the first Monday in May.
Among the circumstances to be partic-
ularly remarked was the greater NUM-
Der of female artists than usual; their
number is ninety-two among nearly
thousand exhibitors is to say,
about ten per ceut. Of the whole num-
Der. This proposition is said to be
three times as large as it was twenty
years ago. They miss, however, at
their exhibitions, as they acknowledge,
such artists as Mrs. Murray, who has
of late made her abode in this country
The Daily Telegraph, in an elaborate
notice of the exhibition, says:
"The women artists are rapidly
emancipating themselves from the go
carts to which kind-hearted but In
iudicious friends would condemn them,
and are beginning to run alone. That
all the ladies who figure in the Acade-
my catalogue of 1874 are Rosa Bon
heurs or Elizabeth Murrays' or that
the deftest of the female genre painters
can vie with Mrs. e. NJ. Ward, 1t
would be the grossest and stupidest
fattery to assert; but year after year
we see women brave enough to leave
the beaten track Of painting fruits, and
flowers, plovers' eggs, and turnips,
radishes, china jars and ivory chess
men, or babies beautifully grinning IN
cots made of quilted satin.
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