The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-12-09
HEWITcHED AND RUINED.
A wsll-to-do Farmer Turns swin6lsr and
Runs OF With Another VANS Wife


'h, LII, nov. -o.-A ie"
months since Thomas Stout was wel-to-do
citizen of Montgomery county, Ind. where
he vas l.-,s,x s,c.',sd in i.rm;r, and
oeaiinS IN n's s'oeH, ana was Inc husband
Of one wife and the father of nine living
children. On the I'd OF last October he
represented to Allan Darnall, of Putnam
county, that he had contracted with parties
In Buffalo, n. Y, to deliver them one hun
dred head of fat cattle, of a certain grade,
for Sl1 600.
On this representation Darnall furnished
Stout the number OF cattle required, and
Stout started for Buffalo with his cargo of
live stock, since which time neither Oar
nall, Stout's wife and nine children, or any
one else from Putnam county, had heard Of
Stout, although detectives were busv
throughout the country endeavoring to find
the missing man.. until yesterday, when
james Stone, sheriff OF Putnam county,
who was in st. Louis, got an inkling that
Stout was somewhere in this neighborhood
So he boarded a train, and, stopping at
Carrollton and Kane, made diligent in
quiries for his man, but failed to obtain a
clue.
He came to this city last evening, and al
most the first person he saw after getting
on State street was man whom he took to
be Stout standing near lamp post The
sheriff kept his own counsel, and employed
trnsty detectives 10 shadow Stout, which
they did until this afternoon, when he was
arrested by Sheriff A. w. Barrett on an
affidavit prepared by the Indiana sheriff, |
and taken before Judge George c. Cockrell,
who held the prisoner to bail in the sum of
5000 to answer the charge of deirauding |
Allen Darnell.
The prisoner arrived in this city about |
six weeks since, accompanied BY woman
and two children, whom he represented rs
his wife and children, and said that his |
name was Thomas Smith Turner. He |
rented a small house in the northwestern |
part OF this city, and went to housekeeping. |
OF late he has been engaged in purchasing |
hogs and shipping them to st. Louis, and |
when arrested had just purchased twenty |
five swine. He was greatly agitated when |
arrested.
Stout ia . heary, quiet looking granger,
apparently ffty-6ve years Of age, and five
feet eight inches high, weighing nearly |
200 pounds. His brother was here recent
ly to zee him, and the prisoner purchased
draft for So, 400 from Gross, Cariin 4 Co.,
on New York, which he gave him. Stout
ayers that he only realized between 5000
and $1,000 out OF the cattle. On his ARR
val he deposited 5000 in currency in
Gross, Carlin & Co.'S bank, all of which
has been drawn out except about 5000. /
The woman he brought here and claimed
as his wife is rather progressing in ap-
pearance, small figure, twenty-three years
old, and in an interview with her this al
ternoOn, it was learned that she is q native
OF Lincoln county, Ky, and her maiden
name was Laura Jones: About eight years
since she married Harrison Jones, then lv-
ing within one mile OF Crab Orchard.
Shortly after their nnptials the young
couple removed to Montgomery county,
Indiana, whittier also went the mother and