Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-07
NO USE FOR WEEDS.
A Young Woman Who for Two Years
Mourned Her Husband rs Dead.

A Canaudaigua On. - dispatch says:
last Sunday Mrs. George Reddington. OF
this village. wore widows weeds, but to-
day she discards them because of the
joyful intelligence that her husband,
mourned two years as dead, il alive and on
his way from western city to greet
her and his little boy, of whose ex-
istence he is yet unaware. Three years
ago young Reddington. who was not
vet OF age, secretly married well-cOn-
nected and fascinating young girl and i'm
mediatelv started for the West to seek his
fortune and establish home for the VIE.
who remained with her family here. In
company with two other Young. men he
settled upon some Government land near
Lakin. Kan, aud prosperod well. He
wrote cheering letters home TO his Wlie
and mother, and the young couple eX-
pected to be reunited before many months.
ION November n, 1887, about eight
months after his departure, Reddingtons
mother received a telegram from LakiD
announcing his sudden death. Orders
were telegraphed that the remains be for
wardcd to Canandaigua at once, and an
answer came 10 the effect that the body
had already been buried. A second dis
patch was sent instructing the friends OF
the young man to eXhume the remains and
ship them at once without sparlng ex-
pppqp To this came the answer that the
grave had been robbed.
THE Young wife. who had just given
birth to a son, was completely Frustrated
by the shock, and her condition was aggra-
waited by the distressing circumstances re-
lated in the kilograms. The mother. Mrs.
Ida Slater. was able. however. b proceed
10 fakin. accompanied 10y her uncle. to IN
vesticate the case. There she found two
Young men who had been young ReddIng-
toms partners IN real estate operations,
who assured her that her son mad been
killed bV "a fall from a house which ne was
building, that his remains had eenproper-
" cared for and buried with appropriate
ceremonies, and that the grave had been
robbed.
Detectives were employed toinvcsticate
the case. but Mrs. Slater was compelled TO
return with no satisfactory evidence o. 30
the disposition of her sons remains. Short
Is after her return she was informed that
the same young men had applied 10 the
Mutual Iife-insurance Company for the
payment ola $4,000 policy on Rcddngtou'5
life This. in addition 10 the mysterious
disappearance of the body. convinced her
that there had been foul play in connection
with her sons death, and. accompanied by
a Pinkert0n detective, she went TO Lakln
again.
Reddington and his partners, it appear
ed, had insured their lives for 5000 each.
making the policies payable. IN case OF
death, to the survivors, and on advice Mrs.
Slater notified the company that she quc5-
toned the regularity of the proceedings.
Evidence was Obtained 10 arrest the sur
viving partners for fraud. but both escaped.
One forfeited his bail bond and the other
got clear 10y reason of defect IN the COM
plant.
Mrs. Slater despaired of ever recover
ing her sons remains. but IN order to SAT-
isfv her mind sine retained the services of
the detective who has been working at the
case constantly ever since. From clues
picked up at Lakin he concluded that Rcd
dington had either been murdered and his
body concealed, or he had been put out Of
the way temporarily and was yet alive Tie
followed the latter theory. and finally hit
upon the idea of searching the insane a,y-
lums. His patient efforts were soon re-
warded. for the other day ne found the
young man in an insane asylum IN the
West.
physically Reddington Is well, but he
is vet suffering from amental arrangement
which dated from the time he was reported
dead. He was heavily drugged 10y some
one, evidently his young partners, and for
many months afteTward his mind was a
blank. He wandered through the West
and was finally placed in an asylum whore
he gradually improved, uut not sufficiently
to give q clear account of the clrcum-
stances Of his disappearance from Lakln.
he writes home that after three wears ah-
sence he viii soon see home and friends
again. His mother. who was driven nearly
insane by the distressing affair, is in FlOrl-
da. and has not yet been informed of the
discovery OF her SON.