Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-11
A MIXED ELopEmgNT.

A dispatch in yesterday morning 3 RECORD.
UNION announced the arrent at Bakersfield of
man named Dennis Nearby and a girl pre-
sumed to be his wife, for felony, and of their
having left for this city. The case furnishes
another instance of shameful desertion of
wife and children for criminal partnership
with stranger to the household. Dennis
Nearny, the principal in the crime. was q
prominent Sand-lot politician Of Oakland,
! being Denis Kearneys chief manager in that
city during the palmy days of the sand-lot agi-
| tation, but subsequently he has been en-
ployed at the Navy Yard at Mare Island,
where he became acquainted with O young
/ lady who is an adopted daughter of highly
respectable family Of that place.
/ Last Thursday Nearny and the girl eloped.
and in the search made for them this city was
visited and Chief Karcher consulted. The
| Chief took the matter in hand, and he soon
| found that the guilty couple had come to this
| CITY. and later that Nearny, who Is railroad
| mechanic and was formerly in the employ of
| the Central Pacific at the bay, had procured
| from General Master Mechanic A. J. Stevens
| a situation in the shops at Bakersfield, Kern
county, and that he had left for that place,
accompanied by young woman whom he
| called his wife. A dispatch was thereupon
sent to Bakersfield to have the couple arrest
ed, which was done on Saturday morning, and
Chief Karcher left here for his prisoners on
Sunday, returning yesterday. He found that
at all places where they had put up st hotels
they registered as man and wife.
Nearby denies that he is married to the
woman at Oakland, but those familiar with
his domestic affairs assert that he has le-
gally married wife and five children at the
bay city depending upon him for support.
He is AZ years of age, and the girl with whom
he eloped states that she was Is years old the
day before she left her home.
Chisf Karcher arrived with them on the
afternoon train over the Western Division,
and placed Nearny in safe keeping at the
City Jail, but permitted the girl to remain in
the private office. Her adopted mother
came up from Vallejo on last evenings train
and met her at the police station. A very
affecting scene followed the meeting. The
mother fell upon her knees, and with her
arms around her daughters neck pite-
ously entreated her to return to the home
she had left dishonored. The daughter
for o moment refused to leave her
chosen course, but finally, as if touched
by the earnest appeals made in her behalf
and in behalf Of friends she had deserted.
consented, and they started to leave the police
headquarters. AS they passed out OF the
front door the girl took from her finger ring
Which, Nearny had given her. and handed it
to Chief Karcher. The Chief said: 81 sup
pose you want me to give this back to
Nearby, don't you." She replied, Yes. :"
The Chief told her he was glad that she had
voluntarily taken this last step, to return to
her home with her mother, and she re-
sponded that she now desired TO do SO. The
mother and daughter then took a carriage
and drove to the Golden Eagle, where they
remained last night, and will leave for home
on this mornings train. NearnY will proba-
bly, be taken to Fairfield to-day, to await
trial for his crime.