Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-06
SKLPPED THE FENCE.

"no OF q. Culinary Artist Decamps
with Her Husbands Silver Ware.
Leon CASTOR, culinary artist and perfeo-
ture Of the cuisine, from La Belle France.
called at police headquarters yesterday in
search OF his truant wife. The fact Of Mrs.
CASTOR being non est did not rattle the
equanimity of Monsieur 80 much as
the circumstance that she had taken
WITH her q quantity of quite val
liable and exceedingly useful property.
Inc tale unfolded by the alleged and APP
parently deeply distressed benedict was in.
terestlng In the extreme, and if one half the
tne story is true the missing woman is guilty
OF the most unfeeling ingratitude. The
couple arrived in this country from France
couple of years since, and their first bust
ness venture was made at Niagara, where
tney conducted caravansary known as the
rails hotel. Disposing of their business q
rev months since, the young couple came
west, and after "doing" majority Of the
western cities they sensibly concluded to
settle down to business in st. Paul. Being
On unequalled cook, Mr.. CASTOR received q
tempting offer from the proprietors of the
Lodge, at Lake Elmo, to take charge Of the
culinary department of that hotel, and the
successful manner in which his duties were
performed can be attested to by the thou
sands who have visited that resort during
the present season.
IN the course of human mutations that
Defall cooks equally with less favored
worthless, MIR. CASTOR left Lake Elmo and
came to this city, his object being to select q
location with the view Of opening up res
taurant. The couple occupied apartments
on Fifth street, near Washington, where Mr..
CASTOR kept about $500 worth of silverware,
together with other articles, with which he
expected to furnish forth his restaurant.
With the native instinct for turning an
honest penny peculiar to the inhabitants of
his country, Mr.. CASTOR seized the oppor.
tunity offered by the State fair, and for the
past few days he has been satisfying the
hunger of famished visitors by peddline
sandwiches on the fair grounds. Leaving
home at an early hour on Thursday morn
ing, he returned, after q successful days
work, only to find that his wife had skipped
out, taking with her every article of value
upon which she could lay her hands.
To say that the revolution caused q
galvanio shock to course down the spinal
column of the injured husband, would be
drawing it mild. He was shocked, bewilder-
ed, paralyzed. A night of fruitless search
followed and really sincere agony. The
couple had always lived peaoeably, and Mr..
affection or fidelity. He confided every
thing to her charge, and she was the GUS
todian of all his earnings, and, as he remark
ed to GLOBE reporter yesterday, money
was of no consequence only as it tended to
rvNvnvvv %hA &c Me-
CASTOR. In addition to the silver ware she
took with her q quantity of table linen, q
number of small articles and q chest of gen.
tleman's wearing apparel. After diligent
search CASTOR learned from an expressmsn
that woman answering his wife's descrip-
ton had engaged rooms at Mrs. Aliens
boarding house on Wabashaw street.
THE SEQUEL.
The irate Frenchman then set about to re-
cover his goods, and with this object in view
he visited the Office of City Attorney Murray.
He was there informed that redress was out OF
the question, inasmuch as the law says that the
difference between meum and tuum where man
and wife are concerned is at zero, and being of
one flesh the twain are legally and scripturally
. unit. The ob.tinacy with which he had hith-
erto asseverated their relations as being of the
AAAOSo
judgment. and he finally admitted that they
we're not married.
He repaired to the municipal court, where a
search warrant was issued and placed in the
hands of Officer Mullins, who visited Mrs. Al.
lem in quest of the goods. Arriving at the
residence of the latter q parley ensued, and
upon being pressed Mrs. Allen admitted that
abe had a lady boarder answering the desorip-
ton given, and the guest and goods were i'm
mediately forthcoming. The warrant was
served amidst tears and entreaties, which JIM
my Mullins was in the act of delaying in the
inimitable style peculiar to himself, when the
party were surprised by the entrance of Cas-
ton. r=-s,Et.@5
An affecting scene followed, resulting in an
genuine reconciliation, and the I'M
grateful woman was to all outward appear
ances truly penitent. The Inundated won an
assigned no reason for her misconduct, and to
manifest his undimmed affection for the
damsel he gave her bill Of sale of all the
goods that she had endeavored to make away
with. At the hour of writing the couple
were as happy in each others society Is cooing
doves.