The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-01
SENSATION AT READING.
a Nebraska Man Discovers his Wife
and her ParamOur There.
He Goes for Them and COmpro-
misses for $1,000.

He Goes for Them and Compro-
misses for $1,000.
Some days ago the postmaster in En-
poria received letter from a Mr.. Ills
worth, attorney at law, at Seward, Ne
braska, making inquiries Of the where
abouts Of certain lady and gentleman,
the former an eloped wife, and the latter
her guilty psramour. The letter was
handed TO sheriff Conner, and he and
Tom. Fleming, city marshal, soon dis
covered that the guilty parties were at
Reading, and Friday last Mr. Ellsworth
and Sanford Morse, the lawful husband Of
the woman in question, arrived here, and
went to Reading on freight train. The
guilty parties had been discovered by
means OF letters post-marked at Empo-
ria. Arriving at Reading they proceed
ed 10 the house OF the criminals. Mr.
Ellsworth tells the Kansas City Journal
correspondent Of the reception.
"We found the woman at home, and
when she recognized her husband Ehe
was nearly speecEless with terror. We
waited u few moments and her paramour
came in and was As much surprised at
hnding myself with-the injured husband
auu Tue Oh Lyon county LnSEe As
the woman was at our first appearance
A scene followed that cannot be describ-
ed. The husband WAS furious and de-
sired To kill the destroyer Of his happi-
ness on the spot. A settlement OF the
trouble was made, however, and we are
on the little boy, who is TO be delivered
to us there by his mother, to be taken
back TO Nebraska by his father"
The boy was delivered to his father on
the train Saturday morning. That the
people Of Reading and vicinity may
know more OF the Villains who are loca-
ted in their midst we give the husbands
story as related to the Journal correspond
emit:
live in Seward City Neb. moved to
Nebraska from Orlaud. Ind, in 1870, and
bought n large farm near Seward City.
was married in Orland, Ind, January,
1863, to Miss Olive v. Squares, an accom-
plished and beautiful lady, seventeen
years old, and of n good family. PreVI-
Gus To our going 10 Nebraska, and after
our arrival there, up to the time OF my
wife's elopement, we lived loving and
happily together. The destroyer OF ali
my earthly happiness we found in Sew
ard City-a practIcing physician. DIR. T.
j. Hollinger was n man Of means, highly
respected and enjoying an extended prac-
tlce In Seward; married and had one
daughter; his wife lady, and his home
one OF the pleasantest in the city. EN-
ployed him as my family physician, my
wife not being well, and he Ingratiated
himself into her affections, and finally in.
duced her TO leave me, deserving at the
same time his own wife and home and
going to st. Louis 70 reside under the as
sumed name Of DR.. j. c. Bloomfield.
They did not leave Seward together; the
doctor went first and soon after my wife
followed. My wife induced me TO sell
my farm; i sold also fifteen hundred
bushels Of wheat and q great number or
hogs, and then she insisted on going to
visit some relations in Iowa; consented.
She went to Iowa, but did not stay only
= day er two, then she Joined the Doctor
at st. Louis, and has been with him for
about f0ur months. i did not know of
her residence until discovered her here
In Kansas.
There was . mutual friend to the Doc
tor and my wife in Lawrence, to whom
my wife wrote from Kansas; her letters
were always headed Orlaud, Ind, but
post-marked Emporia, Kansas.
A detective informed me of this fact,
andI Immediately wrote to the postmas-
ter at Emporia and described my wife
and the doctor to him. He placed the
letter In the hands Of the sheriff of Lyon
county, who found that the parties were |
living at Reading. small place fifteen |
miles northeast OF Emporla, on the Atch- |
sOn, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad.
My wife absolutely refused to return |
with me, and she declared she loved the |
ioctor more than she did her life. She |
admitted that she had committed adultery |
with him, and was prepared to meet the |
of her crime. The doctor |
Isid he would do anything required of
him in pecunIary point of view, and |
offered me $500 ana my boy If would |
20 away and leave them in peace. After |
objection and consultation agreed to ac-
,ept 81 900 in cash and the boy, and an |
admission from my wife that she had |
adultery so that could get a |
livorce. The money was promptly paid |
o me. have now got my boy; he will |
DC nine years old next October. / will |
'eturn with him to Seward, Nebraska, |
md then after settling up my business, |
will return to Indiana to live. ! am |
broken up; broken in heart; |
'rOken in wealth or in what little wealth |
did have, and am nearly driven distrac- |
ed with trouble. My name is Sanford |
4 orse.