Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-04
BOLD STROKE FOR A HUSBAND.
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Just befoes the morning session " the
Jefferson Aarket Pol ee Court ended sat
urday q WOMAN announced herself 70 Jus
tice Patterson as Mrs. Roberts and said
she wished 10 have hef husband arrested
for bigEmy. The justice recognized her as
the person 10 whom hs had given a war
rant some time slnee for the arrest Of her
husband on a charge Of abandonment
Mrs. Roberts said that she had traced ber
husband 70 Rochester, y. Y, where she
went on Wednesday last. She asserted
that be had married another woman and
was living there with her. When asked by
the Court why she did not have her war
rant executed in Rochester Mrs. Roberts
said that after meeting her husband she
forgave him and did not wish al the time
To cause him any trouble. Justice Patter-
son replied that Rochester was the place To
prosecute the man and directed Mrs. Rob
erts 10 go there
The woman went away, but before doing
30 related her story In full TO Herald re-
porter She said that she met her husband
in Fourth avenue boarding g-house la 1891
He was at that time salesman Of ma
chinery. According 10 the woman no
ceremony was performed at the time OF
the alleged marriage, but they agreed be-
fore witnesses TO live together as man and
wife. After eleven months had passed,
during which time baby had been born,
the man disappeared. The baby died soon
after, and the deserted woman decided to
devote all her efforts to finding the missing
man. She heard that he was in Rochester,
and the next day she started for that city.
81 was surprised" she continued. to
find that my husband had turned doctor
when he is no physician at all. But what
most surprised me was his statement tha
he was married again. L told him that the
girl was not his wife, and he begged me
not to make him any trouble. This prom
ised to do if he would leave Rochester and
go to New York with me that could
once more face my friends.
"He swore that he would bring me here
and oh, how happy was when we got Oh
a train at Rochester to go TO New York.
was very nervous, and he gave me bot
tie, saying: Take twenty drops of this, it
will calm you.' l did not need it, as my
nerves grew steady when thought that in
the morning would be back with him in
New York.
But imagine my indignation when
woke up to find myself in Buffalo. The
miserable fellow had tricked me to get me
away from Rochester and that other wom-
an. He was gone before i discovered the
trick he had played on me, but he had
kindly left me a ticket to Erie, which he
said would help me on my way to New York
1t was no use going to Rochester again, as
had destroyed the warrant for abandon
ment, so | came directly here. | still in
tend to cause his arrest. If ] had taken
those twenty drops for my nerves they
would have calmed them, no doubt, be-
cause a friend of mine, druggist of this
city, who has examined the contents of the
bottle, saws it is strychnine. / shall follow
that man to the end"
A gentlemanly looking man who came
to court to act as a witness for Mrs Rob-
erts, but who refused to give his name
added, as they moved off: And she has
friends enough to help her find him and tc
see that is punished"