The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-12-09
An Old Woman Of Fifty Runs Away
From Her Husband.

| New York Sun: Mrs. Kilroy, the wife
| of small farmer of Upper Montclair, New
Jersey, disappeared very suddenly about
two years and three months ago, aud was
not heard of again until the other day,
when a curious letter was received by the
postmaster of Upper Montclair, purp0rting
\ to come from man who had elOped with
Mr.. Kilroy and married her. But this letter "a
believed by most persons in Upper Mont
| clair to be nothing more than what the poe
| lice call "a STALL or decoy letter. There
are some residents of the town who contend
| that Mrs. Kilroy Is dead, and that she did
not elope at all This, however, is not be-
lieved by those who knew her and her fami-
| ly. MIR. KilrOy now tells the story Of his
wife's departure as he has always told it:
In the month of August, 1878, a man who
was about fifty years old came to my house
asked my wife to go with him to New York.
| heard his name once, but / don't remem-
Der it, He said that his wife and my wife
were sisters, that he had Just arrived in
this country from Ireland and that his wife
was very sick with the ship fever. Ho
wanted my wife to 60 to New York aud
take care of her. When / asked him where
his wife was staying in New York he said
he couldn't name street nor the number,
but he could go straight to the place as
soon as he reached the city. My wife went
up stairs, rolled up a small bundle Of clothes
which she carried under her arm, and the
two took the next train for New York,
That's all / know about it.
| have never seen either one Of them
since that time Some thought that Kill
roy's story was untrue and that his wife
was dead. A local magistrate was 80 con-
WINGED that this was the fact that he went
and searched the woods near kilrOy's house.
He found no trace of a recent burial, and
then he wanted to search Kilroy's house,
Il 4 ! Hsas-m
to swear out search warrant. This man
yesterday said to a reporter for the Sun
L believe that Mrs. Kilroy is dead just as
firmly as l believe that you and are alive
The letter recently received by Postmaster
Van Geisen of Montclair was as follows;
NEW YORK, November 10, 1880.
Mr.. Van Geisen:
DEAR SIR rite to ask you to tel mees-
ter Kelroy dat ven his wife went Always
from him long ago, she come und live nit
me. OF course we got in lofe, and wen dot
was, we got married. Please tel him dot
und he must not look for her no NOR, becO5G
she is my wife now, my wife told me dot you
was a putty goot man to tell him dot, dot8
wy rite to you. Yours,
MAECHAEL HARMON.
'Kilroy says this letter is a humbug, and
that he thinks he knows where il came
from. Two or three months ago he began
proceedings to get a divorce from his miss
ing wife, and he says that a knowledge of
that probably gave cause for the letter.
Kilroy is about fifty-two years old, and has
several grown-up sons. Mrs. Kilroy at the
time of her disappearance, was nearly fifty
years of age. 1t is said by some that the
unknown man was her lover many years
ago in Ireland, and that his story about his
sick wife was probably ruse that was
understood by all concerned except Mr..
Kilroy"