Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-11
HOME AFFAIRS.
BURLINGTON PEOPLE MAKE TWO
IMPORTANT ARRESTS.
Sheridan's Condition-The St. Louis
ElOpers-Fruit Sa!es-A Ter
rible Tragedy.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE nEooRD-uS1oN.l
THE ST. LOUIS ELoPERs.
Mrs. Norton Pictures Her Husband as a
First-Class Brute.


First-Class Brute.
ST. LOUIS, July 10th-Further kilograms
from Topeka say Judge Laughlin, attor
ney for Norton and Mrs. Caswell, who is an
intimate friend of Mrs. Norton, arrived
from st. Louis by the noon train and went
directly to the Copeland Hotel, where Mrs.
Caswell, after some strong and bitter words
to Moore, made an earnest appeal TO Mrs.
Norton to return to ST. Louis. She said
If you will go back 10 st. Louis with
me, you can return to your home and Mr..
Norton will receive you with open arms.
If you don't want to live with him, you can
have the old home, and Norton will stay at
a hotel"
At this Mrs. Norton broke into tears, and
between her sobs declared that she would
not return.
"He will kill me if go back p she said
can't go back No, will not go back
will stay with him whom love"
Mrs. Caswell then threw her arms
around Mrs. Norton, and again pleaded
with her to return, but she declared posi-
lively she would not, and Mrs. CasWell
then left her.
Mrs. Norton received three telegrams
from friends in Baltimore to-day, offering
her any assistance in their power to give.
MRS. NORTON DENoUNcEs HER HUSBAND.
While Moore was out of the hotel this
morning, in charge of an officer, Mrs. Nor
ton talked freely to Post Dispatch reporter,
and said something which has caused much
surprise and give rise 10 much doubt to
many of Norton's friends. The madame is
reported to have said:
Il would never have left st. Louis with
Moore had my husband not threatened to
take my life. When | went TO my home
| on Friday they told me Norton would kill
! me, and ii was in fear of my life that left.
No other women but myself could have
| lived with him zen years, and l fairly
| worshiped him. But his treatment of me
was that of brute. He has cursed ME, he
! bGs beat me, and dragged me about like a
| dog, and | lived with him because l loved
! h;m-bscause | thought his heart would
change. L don't believe there is man in
! st. Louis who has such an unbearable
and uncomfortable temper as Norton
has. At times he is like a mad
man. He never had cause to think of me
as other than loving and dutiful wife, fol-
| / was most devoted to him in every way Of
my life. When he was sick | never left his
| bedside, but watched him day after day
and night after night, until / was almost
wasted away. Then oseIstatements that
Moore had been visiting our house daily
are most malicious lies. Why, he has not
during the three months we lived there
set foot within my house. Then those
stories that we had stolen Norton's money
are just simply awful. 1 have not one cen
of Norton's money, and he knows it. He
knows l never had his money.
have about $500 of my own money
which is all have, and our arrest ON {
charge of grand larceny, in stealing $50,
900, is preposterous."
Would you object to return to st
LOUISE" was asked of Mrs. Norton.
:" l do not want to go back, if can hell
it, for l am afraid of Norton, but if tn
officers say so we will, of course, go"
What will your friends there think o
this escapade?"
u don't care much what they think O
me- A great many of them have turne,
against me anyway. l am not living TO
the world so much now as FOR my owl
happiness. | am sorry we are in thi
trouble, but it will come out all right"