The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-05
MRS. FLATHERS FLEECED.
Sorry Experience Of an Indianapolis
Lady in st. Louis.
Husband and His Disappearance
With the Ready Cash.

- ID adthcIo, VI bilS lett lOI 81. LOUIS
Monday in search of his wife and thirteen
year old daughter, who, it IL alleged. de-
camped from home on November Is. Mrs.
Fathers, before leaving home, sold some
property for $500 which was worth 5000 and
also took with her a couple of beds and all
the dishes in the Fathers household. A
man named David ii. Shaneberger was very
attentive in helping the runaway to dispose
OF her property, and as his wife reports him
missing simultaneously with Mrs. Fathers,
it was supposed that the pair had flown to-
gether.
A st. Louis reporter located Mrs Fathers
on South Sixteenth street Monday night with
her little daughter, but Shaneberger was not
there. The reporter knocked at three or four
Dc ors on Sixteenth street below Market, and
no woman with thirteen year old daughter
lived in any of the houses. At No. 206 the
hired girl whe answered the bell was con-
fronted with the question; do Mrs Flath-
ers and her daughter stop here?' There's
no such person in the house, but there is a
lady and child who have been in this house
about week. Her name is Mrs. Moore"
The woman known as Mrs Moore heard the
conversation and came down stairs. She &C
knowledged that SHE was Mrs. Fathers, and
invited the newspaper man up stairs to her
apartments, where her little girl, May, was
in bed. The runaway wife is about forty five
years old, not at all progressing in appear
ance. She confessed that she had come to ST.
Louis with Shaneberger, but last Saturday
night he disappeared, and she knows nothing
OF his whereabouts. Mrs. Fathers says she
don't care about Shaneberger going away.
but mourns the loss of 1925 of her money
which she alleges that he took with him
Tell me about your experience since you
left homer queried the newspaper man.
MY husband and didn't agree very we'll,
and he often said that he intended to leave
me. He said he was tired OF me, and actually
hated me. made up my mind to run away
with my little girl, May. Shaneberger-I
wish he was in the neutrality-suspicious.
to sell some property which l owned. and he
came with US 10 st. Louis. He held on to
my money with the excuse that he wanted
to deposit it in bank for me. When we ar
rived in St. Louis Shaneberger got a room
for US, my daughter and l. for he was never
criminally intimate with me, at 1913 Pine
street, where passed by the name of Mrs.
Moore. We staid there one week and then
we moved to 205 South Sixteenth street
Whenever l asked Shaneberger for a settle
ment he would promise to give me an
account OF my expenses, but he never did
so. Last Saturday night he walked out with
the remark, Well! welir and that's the last
I've seen OF him. On Sunday afternoon |
found $75 in an envelope in the bureau
drawer of my room, and ak the rest of my
money disappeared with that scoundrel
Yesterday telegrap pied to my son in Indi.
annapolis where he could find me, and to
come on al once He answered and wanted
to know what was the matter. This morning
1 sent a dispatch to my husband to come
after me immediately, as wanted to go home.
can't imagine why ever made such fool
of myself rs to run away from home. But |
haven't done anything wrong, Shaneberger
never occupied my room; did he May?'
Mrs Fathers appealed to her daughter a
pretty little girl, to verify her statement
mo, indeed" sand May, Il have always
slept with mamma"
Mrs. Fathers and her daughter occupy
two rooms on the second floor of 2O6 South
Sixteenth street, which has an excellent
reputation in the neighborhood, and the
landlady is lady OF good breeding and re-
tinement.
1t is understood that Mr. Fathers is very
much lncensed against his wife. and wants
only to secure his child, but May declares
she will not return home without her
mother
The landlady very much Mortified to
hear the kind OF boarders she was sheltering,
but says that they were very quiet and well
behaved. The parties gave the names of Mr..
and Mrs. Moore, and the little girl called the
man spapa." He was very attentive to his
supposed wife and daughter. and the land
lady says not only did all the chores such as
carrying coal and building fires, but occa-
pied the rooms at night. One suspicious
circumstance which attracted the landladys
attention was that Mrs. Moore never spoke
of her relatives.
Shaneberger, Mrs. Fathers thinks, is ABOUT
her age, and resembles her husband in per-
sonal appearance. She says she is satisfied
that Shaneberger ran away with her to get
the money which was obtained from selling
her property. He paid months rent at 206,
and had Mrs. Fathers alleges, between $3.50
and $500 of her money when he struck his
tent and quietly stole awav.