The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-08-17
"....AUGUsT II, 1874
LOCAL MATTERS.

A MAN ELoPEs FROM PORTSMOUTH WITH
HIS Observation-Disclosures ARRESTED HERR.
On Saturday morning Detective William f.
Knox arrested at the Virginia House. on
Grace street between Eighth and Ninth
streets, two fugitive lovers from Ports
mouth. known here as Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Yore," but really named 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 cbild-bed.. Since that time
some sort of attachment was formed be-
tween the widowed sen-in-law and the be-
reaved mother. On Monday last they
reached the determination TO cope
from the residence of Mr.. Wood, aud
I'D private conveyance obtained for the pur-
pose, Yore, Mrs. Wood, and her son, six or
seven years of age, rode from Portsmouth to
Suffolk. at the latter place they lett theye-
hicle and took passage on the cars for this
city. On Tuesday they applied at the Vir-
ginia House for accommodations and were
furnished with q 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 employment as la
borer if he could get it. His efforts were
unavailing, and he had about made up bis
mind to leave Richmond when he, with his
companion and her child. were taken into
custody.
a short time before the arrival Of Deteo-
tive Knox, Mrs. Wood alias Mrs. 1ore was
seated in the hall in conversation with the
father of the landlady, and was quite COM
municative to him. In the course Of her talk.
she remarked that her :" first husband" !"
meaning Wood was worthless sort of iel-
low, and killed himself drinking; but her
"second husband "(meaning her son-in.law,
Yore) was perfectly sober man, aud q
mighty good fellow, and she had never seen
him intoxicated 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 display ed
good deal of genuine affection for her little
boy.
At the First Station.house Yore confessed
that the woman was his mother-ln-aW and
the boy bis brother-in-law, and gave as the
reason why they fled from Portsmouth to-
ge,her that MIR. Wood treated Mrs. Wood
very badly, and he could not bear to see it
done, and so resolved to remove her to this
city, where he thought she would live more
peaceabe and pleasant life. However, she
brought away with her a considerable
amount of Mr. Woods money, and about
seventy or eighty dollars of it in currency
and eight or nine dollars In coin were found
in possession of Yore, aud Mrs. Wood confess
ed that she had given him portion oft. Yore
is thirty.four years Of age, was bred farmer,
is quite good-looking man, and has EVIL
DENLY been accustomed to a life of severe
labor. Mrs. Wood is thirty-nine years OF
age and though not decidedly handsome
not altogether unattractive. Son-in'law.
brother-in.law, aud mother.in-law were con-
fined at the First Station-house Saturday
night and will be brought before Police JUS.
tice White for examination this morning,
and by that time, it is rot unlikely, the in
jured husband will be here.