Evening star., 1886-12-02
TELECRkMS TO THE STAR
u1opca with uuis Old Friends Wife.

Tlopcd with Hgis Old Friends Wife.
AND STOLE HE OLD FRrENps BEsr HORSE 10 caKKv
THE WOMAN.
P.prc.H. KY. Dec. John Mitchell ana Albert
Champion have resided for years upon adj1inins
farms In Livingston county, ky- near smitSiand.
They were insepara bile friends. largely upon The
order OF Damon and Pythias. had been partners
In the lumber business. and their families wf're
IN daily Intercourse. on Friday last Champion
affeCtionatey kissed hts wife and Children good
bye, telling them he had nacetVed an unsxpect,d
call 10 this city on business, and would riurn
on the MORROW. Mrs. Mitchell about the same
hour bid sdieu 20 her home and childnen,
alleging Visit 10 a friend few miles dis
tant- sunday dawncd. but the absent ones came
not. Ncighbors smiled meaningy ~ one
boldly Their belief that the pair had gone
together valuable horse belonging %
Mitchell was missing Thorough scare developed
undoubted evidence that the pair had eloped-
Mitchell arrived In this CITY Monday Rghi and
put the case In the hanjs OF the police. who soon
located the pair and their route nom here. They
had crossed The ohia, both mounted, the woman
upon the stolen hursa, and rode rapidly away ia
the direction OF Vienna H. thirty miles distant.
The woman leaves a devoted husband and Two
small childiVn while the man leaves a wife and
several children la hight the world alone. Tele-
officers have warrant for the pair. charged with
hofse-thett. The parties arr wtll-knuwn throug Ia
out The county, ana the affair creates the most In
tense excitement
Gt Was n Choice Of Marriage or Death.
KANSAS CRY, No., Dec. Emily Frances
divorce from her husband, John Ezzcll In her
petition she SAYS that on the 18th aay OF Noyet-
oef lSs6, while away from home, She WAS met
Dy dclcndanl, who, under threats OF death. coin-
PEELED her 10 go with him between the hours of
one and four O'Clock I'm the morning To Lone Jack,
town In jackson county, and there So go through
the marriage ceremony, which WAS performed by
an officer o the law at the request uf the i,feI-
dant. She submitted. she declares through fear
She did not do 81. Al the nrst opportunity after
she became defendants wife She flew from hiIn
and hts since remained In sccusion ia order that
he might not deprive her of her lie.
bunuman Treatment at N Sick WAN.
OMAHA, Neb, Dec. about two we,,ks a.-o
James II. MofIal, formerly or Carthage Mo. Was
dragged from the bed where he lay deiir1ouS with
fever and thrown into Jan Ike a fclon his only
onelse was that his landlord. Mr. Theilnan OH
letted 10 the nrpSence OF a sick man. Mnfat WAS
brltalIN assaulted, carried TO lail I'm an almost
nude condition IN coal cart, with lis limits
bound, bruised and bleeding. and the next day ne
was dead. Knights OF PAthiaS here and al car
image demanded an investigation. which began
yesterday. The evidence Or Mrs Moffat was direct
that the treatment accorded her husband was
even more savage than has been supposed. She
says That he Was assaulted by both MIR aud ,Irs.
1helman, knocked down, choSed and cursed hy The
palr Indignation has revived, and the case be-
fore spoken " as one or criminal carelessneSS Is
generally looked upon aS one of murder.