The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-10-24
SIX YEARS ABSENT.
RETURN OF A COLORADO WOMAN TO
HER HUSBAND.
From the Denver Times.l

HEX HUSBAND.
From the Denver Times.l
A story that would form basil
for one of Wilkie Collins plots came
| to light yesterday, the denouemen
| being of a highly satisfactory char
acter to both parties concerned. Si1
years ago a young machinist named
Harry Wilson, working in Pitts
burg, was married, his wife being g
poor girl who had been his school
mate and associate for years The
pair commenced life under fatter-
ing circumstances, the husband be-
ing a skillful and industrious me-
chanic, and the wife a careful, frugal
housewife. Wilson had saved sew
eral hundred dollars, with which
he purchased a neat little home in
the outskirts of the, Smoky City,
and settled down to a life of domes-
tic happiness. They had been mar
ried about a year when the discov-
cry of Leadville's riches created a
demand for machinists in this State,
and having received a fattering of
fer, young Wilson came out here.
His wife was about to be confined,
and SO, selling his property, he es-
tablished her in comfortable lodg-
ings, and depositing all ofhis money
to her credit, except just enough to
bring him to Colorado, left for the
West. She was to follow him as
soon as she was able to travel Some
two months or more afterward, Will
son, who was then at work in Lead
vile, received a note announcing
the birth of a son. Three weeks
later, while busily engaged in pre-
pairing a place for his family, he was
Mortified TO receive a letter which
stated that his wife, in a fit of de-
lirium, had disappeared, taking ad-
vantage of temporary absence of the
nurse, and had not been heard from.
He at once returned to Pittsburg,
and for six months prosecuted an
unavailing search. The money left
in the bank had not been touched,
the wife having enough on hand for
ordinary expenses, and after eX-
pending nearly all in the search, he
gave up and returned to Colorado,
heartsick and discouraged.
Yesterday noon, upon going to
his boarding house to dinner, Mr..
Wilson was told that a lady wished
to see him, and on entering the par
lor was confronted by the we'll |
known and well-beloved features of
his wife. Her story was brief.
She remembered nothing of her |
fight, but on coming to her senses, |
which was last spring, she found
herself in an insane asJ lum in Ohio,
and was told that she was found
raving in the streets of Cincinnati. |
The first indication ofreturning rea
son was the sudden recollection of |
her name. She remained in the
asylum a few weeks until her cure |
was certain, when she was discharg- |
I'd. Finding work at her old trade
Of dressmaking, she wrote to her
husband at Leadville, but his where
lbeuts were unknown, and her let
,ers were returned. Accumulating |
a little money, she went to Pitts
Ourg, and there learned that her
oaby was dead-it survived her
light only few days-and was told |
If her husbands address in Denver,
md that he still mourned her loss.
Kind friends furnished her money,
md, without writing, she came at
'nce to this city, arriving here yes
.erday morning, with the happy re
'ult already noted.