The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-31
ANOTHER PHASE
GIVEN TO HARviYWo opRUFF's CASE
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Easton merchant who mys.erlou,ly tlissp.
psarel from hii home last April, has created
considerable comment heretofore, bu! II now
bids fair 10 become more famous case than
any Of tie kind which has occurred In this
vicinity for ye,ls, excepting tao sill IN.
ro.ved mystery Of sam McColloch's depar.
ture from this city. In The Immediate
neighborhood OF Woodrnirs former home
the cass Ia AZ eagerly ditcu.ssh az was the
,orni'r ens alluded 10 here. On Tuesday the
lkTxiLioGNcER printed M account Of Mr..
Woodruff return home, an event for which
his family, isiendu and neishbors vera ~
unprspared ~ they had besn for his depnr.
,ure. He remained but a short time Dur.
Ing bis absence his wife had settled up hts
business and told hls store, compromising
with his creditors al 10 cents on the dollar oil
their claims. When he rsturned, the sus.
niyed at this arrangement, aud that h!s long
Absenoe was but rnae. tHEErE ~
'" TUE Truth IN THE MATTER.
This suspicion, II Is now evident, did Mrs,
Woodruff |, justice. Thrown upon her own
rsnprcss by her husbands desestlon, she
did the be,t she could 10 save for herelf and
her child enough property 10 support them.
Chs snccetdsd In retaining the rsal estatn, q
new and substantial brick house, with a
commodious s,oreroom, Tbs huSner, hso
barely been settled up when Wuadrud .s.
tonisasd his wile aud friends bv turning up
again, aud said ho hsd been In Oregon. EAi i
His second departure " bioh ives made OF,
rutsisy event. g. col d'ms earlier hutpl.
clons about tho case. ir0 III
when the mysterious departure was chron.
icled by the IKrkLLio sNcka any hint OF these
sueplcions WAY Omitted, though tho whole
story war In possession Of this reporters 0t
the paper. Thia story 10 nov confirmed, aud
gives an element OF scandal to the c.,e.
Mrs. Woodruff had young and handsome
sistsr, who. graduated a few yssrs
since at the Wheeling Femsle Col.
lese. The coat OF her education ives borne
by her brothsr.lr-law, who seemed very fond
4 her. This was not sufficient, OF course, 10
arouse suspicion, but after tbs young lsty
returned 10 Cleo Esston, her charms Of psi
son increased by time, and those Of culture
kddsd, there began to DO whisparipps o.
scandal connecting Woodruff and his wifss
aister, -IfLF'Ep7f, 5t..TfEs. n
ui THE SCANDAL GROWS, u
This scandal has grown for year or 80,
being fed BY the mai u attentions 10 bis Y.ie't
sister and his evident admiration for her
He wai much more considerable 1t her wapts
han those Of his wife. After she had been
home q short time she entered the sture IL
book.keeper, aud the public talk still er.s.
Finally, Mra. Woodruff, who had borLs her
husbands growing neglect with patience
was aroused to the situation, and she remnI.
strated with her husband and Blister upop
their behavior. Her circumstances had no
Effect except to cauae unpleasant feelings,
and at the time OF Woodrufs departure
from home the people Of Glen EM.on atttibn.
ted his leaving 10 tue fam ~. troubles gr w.
ing out OF his open admiration for his w:fs's
slater. .,-.Iy}4
1t was at the solicitation Of relatives Of
Mrs. Woodruff q that reference to thi, scandal
was avoided IN writing up tbs case The :
hoped that he had merely departed in a fit Of
alteration, and thought II publicity OF the
scandal were prevented he might return. He
had long been unwell, and had contemplated
trip to the West for recreation. Arrange
lnenls for this trip had not been made, how.
ever, when one day he left homo ostenslbly
10 come TO Wheeling on business; but In.
stead OF coming here he crossed the river
at Benwood and went west, the only
KNOWLEDGE his family had OF his Destination
coming from a neighbor who saw him in the
railroad eating house at Newark, Ohio.
| THE GUILTY PAIR ELopE.
| After an sb.snce OF three months he re.
turned home. The nature OF the meeting
with his wife and child and that with his
young sister.ir-law are not known, but be
remained, peace apparently having been re.
stored aud hsppiress brought back to the
lately dismembered household. But btfore
the sensation caused in the communi,y by
bis return home had even reached its height,
he a2sin left az unceremopiously Hs before,
and all doubts Of his guilty relations to biz
wife's sister we're dirpelled by her departure
with him. The two took large amount oil
baggage along, carrying OF, 1t Is said, ahou,
all the movable property Of value that could
be packed 10 trunks. How they left or whs,
their destination was is not known. Indeed
the fact that MIR. Woodruff had returned wal
first made known TO his wife's relatives n
this city through ths colpmns Of the IhTELL,
aENCER OF Tuesday. 80, "a ~
OF course The scandal has tekei, a fresh
start since this latest Development, and It il
almost the only topic Of conversation In tba,
psrt Of Marshall county. Indignation at the
mans bsseness IL general and intense, and
were he TO be 20 ind,ecrest as TO again return
he would doubtless be summari]y Dealt with
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