St. Paul daily globe., 1889-04-06
TEMPTED AND TAKEN,
Mrs. Lizzie Speicher. an Iowa
Farmers Wife, Deserts
Her Home,
And Flees to Arkansas With
an Old Beau From the
East.
DeS Moines- River Land Set
tiers Still Defy the U. S.
Marshals.
But a Number Of Them Quietly
Surrender to County
Officials.
Special 10 the Globe.

Special 10 the Globe.
SIOUX CITY, TO-. April 5.--A special
from Cedar Rapids says: Early last
week, Mrs. Lizzie Speicher, wife sof
Milton Speicher, eloped with Frank
Drysher and went to Arkansas. 1t is a
pitiful tale when one knows the hus-
band of the false wife. He is a good
hearted Pennsylvania Dutchman, thirty
years of age, and employed in the
burlington shops as a carpenter.
Eight years ago he married
his wife in Pennsylvania, and they soon
came West. Locating at Cedar Rapids,
ne gained employment at the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids dS Northern shops.
and during his stay here has built a
little home on Fourth street west. One
child was born to them, who is now
seven years of age. Time wore on and
Speicher toiled, laying by his earnings
as much as possible, that his wife might
some day live in better circumstances
and that the boy might grow up into
educated manhood. The wife was
pretty, with fiaXen hair and rosy cheeks,
and was the idol of her husband. He
was kind and loving, and last summer,
when she wanted to go home and see
her parents, he kissed her goodbye and
bade her GOd-Speed. 1t was while East
that she
MET HER PARANOUR.
a more dashing fellow than her plain.
honest husband, and she became infat-
uated with him completely. Coming
home, ne soon followed her. and passed
himself as the young wife's cousin. He
remained at the home of Speicher.
where the laisOn was kept up, and a
week ago last Monday Speicher kissed
his wife goodbye at noon as usual, and
was heartbroken to return home at
night to find his wife gone, with a note
saying that she loved the dashing
Deysher better, and that they were gone
never to return back again, and not
to follow her. On the Tuesday
following Speicher received a letter
from his wife's brother, warning him
that DeySher was not her cousin. and
that he had come West to run away
with Mrs. JSpeicher. This letter was
sent to the Burlington shops. and he
Thinks others were sent here, also to his
nome, but that his wife destroyed them.
In the same mail came a letter from a
man at Pine Bluff, Ark, to Deysher,
saying that he could expect him soon.
and this gave the husband a clue to the
whereabouts of the missing couple.
He ascertained that they had purchased
uckets, and followed them to secure
niH Cnllu. NNen he arrived at Pine
Bluff he went to the shop of Waterman.
in whose employ Deysher was, and
asked if such man was living there.
He said he was, and pointed to house
near by. adding that his wife and fam
lily accompanied the stranger the day
before. A rife stood at the door of the
house, but Speicher disposed of that.
and getting his revolver readysknocked.
HIS WIFE OPENED THE DOOR,
and stood aghast, begging him not to
XIII her or her paramour. He told her
that he had not come to kill her, but to
take her boy and herself back again.
The guilty DeySher fled to bed room.
but Speicher brought him out at the
point of the revolver and made him face
him. The wife said she loved Frank
more than her husband, and would not
return, but she finally allowed the bov
TO go with his father. He took him
over into Illinois, where he has placed
him III the home of a couple of excellent
people who have no children, and where
the lad will have the advantages of
christian home and a good education.
MIR Speicher feels the affair keenly.
but will take up the burdens of life
again, accommodating what little he can
TO place at the disposal OF his boy when
lie has grown older.