Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-16
SENSATION FOR BUTTE
parties Well known in Butte
and Salt Lake Are
implicated.
The Chase Of a Mad HUSBAND
From This City to
Australia.

F.om the Salt Lake Tribune: The iol-
lowing story, sensational as 1t 10, ou'
il,ustrates anew the hoary-haired truism
truth is stranger than fiction. Inc
narties are well known in Salt Lake and
and though names are not given, tne
characters 10 the story will be recognized;
and that trials and fluctuations attend
unmarital-like conduct, as well as the iact
that the finger OF Divine Providence often
mystsriously but surely directs toward the
6nal triumph OF right and justice will also
the medium of this narrative, be
made more manifest.
On a wsst-bound Union Pacific trsl
Sunday were two elderly lady passengers
for Butte. The train had just
passed Rock Springs and the ladies must
eye reaching Granger whether
they could 60 around by Ogden. The con-
ductor told them twice that they must
change cars at Granger when a Salt
Lake passenger on examining their tickets
told them they need not change at Gran
ger. and calling back the conductor made
him assent to this, which he did with very
bad grace.
The ladies thersupon began to speak in
cidentaliy OF the troubles OF life in general,
and those attending railroad travelling IN
particular. and one feared very much that
her bank account had been burned up in
the Butte FIRE. In the meantime q woman
with a youthful face OF IS, but with snow
white heir of 60, came into the car where
the two were talking, having been routed
out OF her berth at an earlier hour than she
thought was necessary. On securing a
seat heal by and catching onto the trend OF
the conversation, she i~nvoluntarily intro
duced herself by exclaiming. "Troubles,
troubles: oh I have hail troubles that
neither you nor any n else have any con.
ception Of" A few expla natory emarks
on both sides brought on q mutual &C
o%uaintance, whereupon the late conner who
gave her name as-well, Mrs. Sanderson
will do-gsve q recital of her matrimonial
experience that fairly thrilled her listeners.
Mrs. Sanderson was English, and brought
up with a gold spoon in her mouth, as
might be Inferred from the fact that in her
fathers house, a single piece OF furniture,
g. ~drawing.reom table, cost $4,000. She
came to this country, however, to be edu-
Gated, and here she met, loved and married
Sanderson.
They came West, where after many vicis-
situdes they moved to Salt Lake City, and
here Sanderson engaged first in insurance
with u we'll known Main street agency, and
afterwards went into smelter work, fret in
this city and then in Butte. "Why," ex-
claimed the narrator, i've lived III dug
outs and log hut and expert ,nced all sorts
of d~eprivations with that man, and yet
was happier than when living in my
fathers elegantly appointed house. because
I loved my husband" At Butte, however,
about four years ago, the cloud came,
Sanderson manifested symptoms OF insan-
ity. The alarmed and faithf IL wife i'm
mediately had q local physician who she
trusted implicitly, examine the patient.
The doctor said that Sandersop was really
off his base, and advised her to snub him,
drive him off, and if he wanted to 60 away
by himself any where to let him 60 for the
time being. To make sure of the reliability
of the advice, Mrs. Sanderson sent her hus-
band to Salt Lake City for examination by
a prominent physician here, who corrobo-
rated fully the advice of his Montana medi-
cal brother.
The sorrow.stricken wife had begged him
for a truthful report, as the happiness OF
her life depended on his decision. So. cou-
frmed by this advice from two sources
which she thought must be trustworthy,
she went of to Pasadena, where she bought
some property, paying half down and
m~ortgaging for the rest, meanwhile keeping
an eye on Butte. Shortly a letter was re-
ceiyed from Montana advising her to come
home right away, as her husband was in
trouble. So home she went, to find him in
q woman scrape, which she had some diff
Guilty in clearing up with his assistance,
and in the meantime the mortgage going
by default, the Pasadena property was
seized ty the mortgagor. However, after
the insane husband had got his coat-tails
clear of 1.-THE woman in the case" at Butte,
be seemed to suddenly recover his reason,
and becoming %reconciled to his wife, he
in recovering the property.
Everything went lovely for q while, but
presently Sanderson grew restless, and be.
coming suddenly insane, again skipped of,
the vile knew not whittier, but she sup
posed back to Butte. It was not long
before she recsived an anonymous note
from San Francisco stating that her bus.
band was there and for her to CONS right
on to look utter him. To San Francisco
went the poor wife, landing there with only
a few dollars in her pocket, and not know
ing which way to turn. Suddenly, in one
of her perplexed moments something
seemed to whisper in her ear. with a shock
ALMOST like that of a blow, "Go to the
and after a deal of p%ersistency on her part
and an almost as persistent misunder-
standing on the part OF the clerks, Mrs. |
Sanderson discovered, with the aid of her |
husbands photograph, that a man answer
ing precisely his description had sailed
for Sidney, Australia, under the name
OF STEVENS" in company with a Mrs.
Mary G. Skilman, OF Butte, and her
two children. The sorrow.strikcen woman
to follow at once her insane,
runaway husband, but how could she pay
her passage? She had but a dollar eft. In
her distress she turned to Spreckels, who |
listened to her story, and becoming
interested gave her a pass to Sydney on
one OF his vessels, after taking her watch
for security OF payment of fare, and gave
her instructions to 60 out under the. start
ling nom de plume OF Smith. At the same
time spreckels quietly notified the officers
OF the vessel OF the situation, and as it
Mrs. Smith" sailed by the very
anne vessel that had carried the runaways
on last outward trip. OF course the lonely
passenger wal well cared for, and the other
passengers and the crew felt deeply for her
and actually made up a purse OF $13O to
be given her after the ship had landed at
Sydney. They did this because they could
see that Mrs. Sanderson was a highly edu.
Gated aud well bred woman, evidently verv
sensitive, and did not want to wound her
by proffers of charity. So this neat
little purse was presented after the landing
at Sydney by an elderly gentleman passsn.
ger and she could not refuse it. In fact the
money came very handy.
But there the poor woman was in syd.
ney, among total strangers, and for q short
she did not know whether she was
afoot or on horseback. Finally she ven
tured to ask a cabman what to do to
Up ruEaways?" The fellow laughed
at her tn which ahA aoiI ,oloc,lu ~