The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-08-21
4 Heroic Individual ElOpes with His
MOther.in.LaW,

From the Richmond (va.l Dispatch, Aug. Il.
On Saturday morning Detective Will
liam F. Knox arrested at the Virginia
House, on Grace street, between Eighth
and Ninth streets, two fugitive lovers
from Portsmouth, known here as Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Iore," but really nam
ed Mr.. Henry Yore and Mrs. Sarah
Wood. They are natives of the State of
North Carolina, but for good while
lived in Portsmouth. Yore married
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wood, and
lived with her until about three months
ago, when she died in child-bed. Since
that time some sort of attachment was
formed between the widowed son-in-law
and the bereaved mother. On Monday
last they reached the determination to
elope from the residence of Mr.. Wood,
and in private conveyance obtained
for the purpose, Yore, Mrs. Wood, and
her son, six or seven years of age, rode
from Portsmouth to Suffolk. At the
latter place they left the vehicle and took
Tuesday they applied at the Virginia
House for accommodations, and were
furnished with a room. Yore stated to
the gentlemen about the house that he
came here to seek work, and said he had
no trade, but intended to obtain employ
ment as laborer if he could get it,
His efforts were unavailing, and he had
about made up his mind to leave Rich
mond when he, with his companion and
her child, were taken into custody.
A short time before the arrival of De-
tective Knox, Mrs. Wood alias Mrs.
Yore, waa seated in the hall in CONVERSE
ton with the father of the landlady, and
was quite communicative to him. In the
course of her talk, she remarked that her
''first husband" (meaning Wood was
worthless sort of fellow, and killed him
self drinking; but her "socond husband"
(meaning her son-in-law, Yore) was a
perfectly sober man and mighty good
fellow, and she had never seen him in
toxicated but two or three times, and
then it was at Christmas, when she
thought such things not so very bad.
She seemed to have tender feeling for
Yore, and displayed good deal of gen.
uine affection for her little boy.
At the First Station-house Yore con-
in-law and the boy his brother-in-law,
and gave as the reason why they fed from
Portsmouth together that Mr.. Wood
treated Mrs. Wood very badly, and he
could not bear to see it done, and so re-
solved to remove her to this city, where
he thought she would lead more peace
able and pleasant life. However, she
brought away "a considerable amount of
Mr.. Woods money, and about seventy
or eighty dollars of it in currency and
eight or nine in coin were found in pos
sssion of Yore, and Mrs. Wood confessed
that she had given him portion of it.
Yore is thirty=four years of age, was
bred farmer, is, qnite n good looking
man, ard has evidently been accustomed
TO life of severe labor. Mrs. Wood is
thirty mine years of age, and though moi
decidedly handsome, is not altogether
unattractive. Son in-law, brother-in- law
and mosher-in-law were confined at tbs
First Station-house, Saturday night, and
will be brought before Police Justice
White for examination, this morning
and by that time, il ia not unlikely, the
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