, 1885-08-25
ERRING IDA.
Discovered With Her Paramour at
Florence, Colo.
The Husband Washes His Hands
of the Outfit.

OF the Outfit.
The Denver Tribune Republican has q
long accoun of the finding of Mrs. Light
foot with some statements concerning the
income Of her husband and other matters
which will not only be a little amusing to
him, but to all who know the parties.
Yesterday the husband filed an injunction
suit in the district court, in which he
seeks to restrain the eccentric Ida May
from disposing of property in this city
which is recorded in her name, or in
mortgaging or otherwise iucumbering the
same. The following is clipped from the
Tribune Republican, story:
On the afternoon of the 10th, Gen. D..
j. Cook, the detective working up the
case, received a letter from one of his men
down the Denver & Rio Grande road,
stating that White and the Lightfoot
woman had been traced to Smiths hotel,
at Florence, a little station twenty-five
miles west of Pueblo. on a branch road,
and where they were regarded as a run
away couple. The woman had called her
companion Frank, " and the two had
given themselves away by their actions.
But n change came over the spirit of their
dreams when Wednesday, Tribune Re
publican reached Florence, so completely
describing the clippers, and giving a his
tory of the case up to date, that everyone
in the hotel saw what the game was.
White was completely foored. His eye
brows dropped, his knees smote one
against the other, and clutching his grip
sack he slipped off at 1890 on a tic
pass to Salida, he said, but Canon City
was what he had in view. The woman
left on the evening train, evidently to
join White. so the detective wrote, some
where up the road. She had a large
Saratoga trunk with her which remained
behind, as Gen. Cook had telegraphed
Proprietor Smith to hold her baggage, as
she was to be arrested for lunacy, and her
companion for adultery.
Gen. Cooks correspondent further
stated that the I'M was tired of her
experience, and was ready to repent.
White is 30 years old, smooth shaved,
red-faced, wears a blue suit and a straw
Lat, This description, in addition to his
known calling, that of an artesian we'll
borer, ought to spot him anywhere.
However, before the receipt of this letter,
there had been interesting Geographic cor
~respondence between the detective Office
and Salida and Pueblo. An officer wired
from Salida. August ~, at GAO p. M,
that Mrs. Lightfoot and Frank Il. White
we're at Florence that day, to which Gen.
Cook replied. Keep them Swallowed till
you hear from here A telegram dated
Salida, August 81, at 8 a. m, said they
we're not on the road going west. and to
send a man from Denver to Florence; that
White had left but the woman was there.
In reply to a line from Gen. Cook August
%, word came back at l p m, that Mrs.
Lightfoot had gone to Canon City and her
baggage was Al. Smiths hotel; also that
White had left the day before on foot for
Salida. Another telegram to the same
effect was received from Proprietor Smith,
aud the next day a telegram stated both
were at Canon City.
Sheriff \. n. Craig, of Cheyenne, was
at once wired by Gen. Cook, but yester-
day morning Sheriff Craig wired back that
L%ightfoot, on learning the real status of
the case, has declined to chase the game
further; that he was convinced the insan-
ity under which his wife was thought to
be laboring was not of the kind calculated
to excite his sympathy or compassion, and
that she might go where she liked, for all
of him; also to send bill of expenses to
Cheyenne. So Gen. Cook has notified
Proprietor Smith to let the woman's bag
gage go when called for, and the case is
dropped.
If Mrs. Lightfoot was crazy it was
madness with q method. She began
operations by spending money right and
left in bed and table linen, three or four
dozen towels at a time and a pile of cloth
ing, for all of which her family had no use
whatever, intending to fit out her new
love in stock for housekeeping. Light
foot, of course, seeing no excuse for this,
thought she must be out of her head, a
suspicion strengthened by the letters she
left behind, about her not being good
enough to continue his wife, etc. After
she had gone, he found several bills.
aRgregating a large amount, for stuff she
had bought to carry off, Lightfoot
threatened to shoot White, wherever he
might find him, for being villain enough
to entiee a crazy woman from her home.
But in view of the woman's character, he
is now rather disposed to regard Mr..
White as a personal benefactor, for hav-
ing taken such a wife off his hands. Light
foot is very well off. his daily income
being, it is claimed, 800 per day.
Incorporated.
Articles Of incorporation for the Sheri
dan mill comnanv wore fled vaatarda,-