Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-22
SHE OuISAILED HIN.
The Pursuing wife's Steamship Fast.
err than Her Husbands

As the steamship Adriatic CT the White
Star Line slipped up to her pier at Jer-
sey City through the thick fog recently
among the steerage passengers was lit
/ tie woman with rosy cheeks, dressed in
an alpaca gown and short sacque, fur
trimmed at the throat. Her only bag
gage was q small satchel. Her name
was Margaret Philips, she said, and her
age twenty-four, and she was in pursuit
of her husband, who had deserted her in
London and taken passage for this coun-
try in the Belgian steamship Switzerland.
John Philips had left his home on
December 29th, went to Antwerp, and
sailed two DAYS later. II was several
DAYS before Mrs. Philips found out
where her husband had really gone, and
leaving her two little children in the care
Of her mother she boarded the Adriatic,
which left Liverpool four days after the
Switzerland started.
The Switzerland lisa slower boat. She
came up through the same fog yesterday
afternoon with tall, lank, red-bearded
| Irshmau Of thirty seven on board. anX-
/ iousy walking the deck. in hurry to
get ashore. Detective Groden, Of Castle
/ Garden, had gone with Mrs. Philips TO
Jersey City and made arrangements with
/ Detective COyne, who Was stationed at
the pier Of the Red Star Line, TO inter
cept Mr. Philips as soon as the vessel
arrived. When be went ashore with the
detectives he bad no idea for what he was
wanted, and he told them that he was
coming 10 this country to live. He was
conducted to the steamship Office and
Mrs. Philips was presented to HIM.
Tableau.
When asked why he had run away, he
said that he had had enough Of her.
Then followed quarrel, which culmi-
mated in his raying at her vigorously, and
raising his hand. With flashing eyes she
rushed at him and dealt him one on the
shoulder. saying:
"You villain I'll knock you down"
They were separated by the officers,
and Philips was locked up on a charge
OF disorderly conduct.
eve have been married four years,
SAID Mrs. Phillips TO a reporter last night.
We lived at Charles street, London,
and my husband was "A clerk IN the bank
ING house of Blake, Bolsseyain a Co.,
with which Blake Brothers. No. Is Wall
street. is billed. He was earning good
wages, and. having no bad habits, he used
/ 10 bring most If it home. Then We made
something by renting rooms. He never
| limited that he was dlsplcased with his
home, and several nights after Christmas
he called me the mostloying little wife that
/ ever was. 10 think that all this time he
had in bis pocket u passage ticket for
+ America. which ] attergard found ont he
/ had bought in October, and | had never
/ found it out. He hadn't entirely paid
| for il. and was saving up his money. He
| didn't take AM Of the bank's money,
but he took twenty shillings OF
rent money which l gave hm 10
/ help him ont Of some business
trouble as he called it, he must have
taken with him at least twenty-five
pounds, and it 10 the money I'm after /
| don't care anything more for him, the
va5abond | hope the Court will give
me every cent he has got, and then |
/ viii 90 back 10 London. | taught him
bookkeeping and about everything lie
ever learned, and tie only thanks | ever
got was a beating now and then.
Two sovereigns, "a little silver, anl some
Pnlgian coins were found in Philips
pockets. lie hal also a silver watch
which he was paying Tor on the instalment
plan.