The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-02-10
AFTER TEN YEARS.
ROMANTIC MEETING OF HUSBAND AND VIE E
IN SALT LAKE.

! ROMANTIC MEETING OF HUSBAND AND wIFE
IN SALT LAKE.
/ The old story that romances in real life
( are sometimes stranger than the fictions
I which writer's weave for books, was recently
/ exemplifed in this city 1t was no less than
/ the romantic meeting of a husband and wife
after ten years of separation. The circum-
/ stances of the case as detailed to Tribune
/ reporter, are as follows Twelve years ago
/ Henry l.. Wallace was married in New Yerk
/ city, and, being man of considerable means
/ took his wife to Europe. They made a two
years tour of the continent, and then re
turned to Liverpool from whence they were
/ to sail for America. Wallace and his wife
/ took stateroOms in the steamer, and after 60
! iIg on hoard Wallace recalled the fact that
the servant girl at the hotel had not, in the
hurry of leaving been paid. AS there we're
still two hours before the steamer sailed he
concluded to go back and pay the nurse, lest
she might mention the matter to other guests
and a bad impression of his financial integ-
rity be created He started for the hotel,
and on his way was roughly jostled by a
stranger. Turning Gpon him he demanded
to know why he was insulted when some hot
words passed and he knocked the man down.
| The police rushed in and arrested both men.
At the station house the man W HON he had
Knocked down charged him with an attempt
to pick his pocket. He tried to expla ain that
his wife and child were on the steamer, and
finally offered a thousand dollars to let him
go, but it was of no avail, and the story of
the steamer was only looked upon as a fab
ricatiOn to deceive the police. When he was
searched no money was found upon his per
son, except few shillngs of silver, having
left it with his wife. This fact taken into
connection with his offer of a thousand dol
lars for his release, made it all the more sus-
picious. While he was being examined in
the Office of the Chief of Police, a despatch
came from London, directing the detectives
to arrest a counterfeiter who was about to
sail on the steamer. The description an
swered almost exactly for Wallace, and he
was locked up. He sent word to the hotel
and the keeper Of the house called upon him.
Wallace begged the man to identify him, but
the reply was
81 only know that you stopped a few days
at my house, and when you left you didn't
pay nurse girl whom you hired. What do
l know of your antecedents ."
That the bill due the nurse girl, which was
the cause of all the trouble, should be used
against him was crushing blow, and when
his trial came off rhe London detectives swOre
that they believed he was the counterfeiter
wanted, but there was not sufficient proof to
convict him. The man whom he had knocked
down swOre stoutly that he had attempted to
pick his pockets and he was sentenced for
two years. In the meantime the steamer
sailed, bearing ehis wife and child. Mrs.
Wallace, remembering the excuse he had
made to leave the steamer, presently began
TO imagine, as many women might do under
tie cifc umstances, that he took this method
OF deserving her, and after reaching New
York gave up all hope of ever seeing him
again. She had considerable money, how
ever, and finally came west. She lived in
San Francisco several years, and lost nearly
all she had in stocks. She came to Salt Lake
with her child, and took in sewing and fancy
needlework barely making living.
After Wallace had served his term in Liv-
erpool, he spent two years in trying to get
something to do, and finally had to work in
a rope makers establishment to earn money
enough to reach America, coming in an emf
grant ship. After reaching New York he
met some of his old friends; explaining his
misfOrtunes, he got start in the world again,
and making a good deal IF money, he tried
to find his wife but was unable to do so. He
went to Colorado two years ago, invested
luckily in mines, and made considerable
money. Last week he came TO Salt Lake,
and while at the Walker House with a friend,
the conversation turned upon the prosy sub
ject OF good fitting shirts. Said the friend
"There is widow woman up street who
makes my shirts. l give her my measure and
they lit to a charm and last longer than any
store shirt l ever wore. If you want some
good shirts come with me-
Wallace agreed and the two went up to the
widow woman'S.
"Same name as you by the way" said the
man as they approached the house. He in
trOduced Wallace as friend who wanted
some shirts made. The two looked at each
other. The woman gave big long scream
and there was the usual tableau, which would
require considerable work TO properly de-
scribe. Wallace found his wife and also his
little baby the latter grown to girlhood.
These are the simple facts of a remarkable
case, but the full history of the wanderings
of the separated couple would make a book.
The two left for New York on Tuesday last
Salt Lake Tribune