Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-03
ON THE WING.
NO TIOIN6S FROM THE ESCAPED
PRISONER
Who Fled from CanOnchet on Mysterious
Yacht-The True lnwardness Of
Prof. LincEs Story, and COnk-
ings Motives Shown Up.

New YoRE, September 2. 2.-Dispatches
nom Canonchet represent that there are
no tidings OF Mrs. Sprague. 1t is rea-
sonablv certain that she took the steam
yacht that laid of the Newport pier for
two hours on Saturday afternoon, and
suddenly touched the pier and then
steamed away. Where she has gone
her friends, of course, do not hint.
Sprague, after his long ride to King
ston Junction and back, remained quiet.
He refuses to be interviewed, and is mo-
rose. 1t is certain, however, that he is
preparing to recover the children, ii in
deed he has not already begun the
search. 1t is generally believed
that he has. The accounts
printed of his assault on Mrs. Sprague
and the attempt to throw her out OF the
window are amply verified by the testl-
monv of the nurses who witnessed 1t.
Mrs. Sprague'S friends say that suit for
divorce must follow this last outbreak.
The New York Times special from
Narragansett Pier traces COnkling's
hand i'm the scandal from first to last.
Ii saws: 1T is stated that every move
ment of Mrs. Sprague since the scandal
became public, with the notable excep-
ton OF this unexpected departure, has
been under the direction and at the
dictatiOn OF Senator Conkhng. ltwlIl be
recalled that at the outset Senator Conk-
ling tried to keep the affair from the
public. and, finding that an impos-
sibilitv, made a desperate attempt
to suppress his part in 1t. In
the Times 1t was fully disclosed how
Senators Conkling and Anthony sent
for I.inck, arranged the role he was to
play, and then visited Mr. Danlelson,
editor Of the Providence Journal, a press
agent, and vet more important, warm
friend of Mr. Conkling. This editor
himself told naively how, fearing that
an exaggerated and wicked story might
be sent out, it was suggested that Sena-
tor Conkling should himself furnish
true dispatch, and how on the Senator S
personal assurance that there had been
no afIray, the dispatch duplicating only
l.inck and Mrs. Sprague was sent
to be furnished to the news
papers throughout the land. That was
the first step dictated by Senator Conk-
ling. Then came Linck's vOluminous
statement making himself tine sole VIC
tim OF Governor Sprague's wrath, and
SO inconsistent that he subsequently de-
MED it, saying it had been so changed
and distorted while in Mrs.
Sprague's possession, as he supposed,
that he could not longer recognize 1t as
his. Not less by Senator COnkhng's dl-
rection, rs is believed here, was the visit
of Mrs. Sprague 10 Conductor kales
house, the interview with her husband,
her consent that the children should be
under his control, and her return to an
unhappy home. This policy was
pursued by Senator COnkling, 1t is
claimed, with the purpose and hope to
hush up the scandal, make it appear
that things had been greatly exaggerated,
and that all was now settled, and thus
to tide over the matter until after the
New York Republican State Convention
at Saratoga. AS every move made re-
coiled rclentlessly upon the author, so
the last one appears in sorry light and at
the most inopportune time through Mrs.
Sprague's leave-taking OF yesterday. 1t
is said that Senator Congling, in his pur-
pose to prevail with Mrs. Sprague to re-
main in 4 position which could
not be other than painful and
loathsome, even went so far as to procure
from hIs wife a letter OF coincidence to
Mrs. Sprague. The friends OF the latter
ieiv here are full of Indignation over
tins new development, and cannot find
words to express their contempt for a
man who, after compromising her by
his conduct, would seek to hide behind
a woman's skirt, no matter what the
defamation and lasting disgrace conse-
uuent to her 1t is believed here that
within day or two woex-Ciovernor Sprague
will make a full and explicit statement
of his side of the case.