Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-11
HUNTRESSES OF MEN.
Deserted Women Who Keep the Pitts
burg Police Bureau Busy
LOOKING FOR LOST HUSBANDS.
Some of the Causes Which Lead to Breaks
in Family Circles.
APPEALING TO THE PRESS FOB HELP

Inspector McAleese is making vigorous
efforts to locate Walter E. Platts, palmer,
who deserted his wife and two children at
Altoona about six weeks ago. The case is a
peculiar one. Mrs. Platts, who is in the
city looking for her husband, is young
and rather pretty woman, and has with her
two lovely children. Her married life, she
said, had always been happy, her husband
did not drink, and she has not the fa;ntest
idea of the reason which caused him to leave.
There is hardly a day that the Police
Bureau of this city is not called upon to
locate a missing husband or wife. In the
latter event the work is not so bad, as the
woman is usually accompanied by man,
and it is easier 10 identify couple of this
character than to find man travelling alone.
Where husband starts out to seek fresh
fields and pastures new, it is an easy matter
for him to shave off his mustsche, trim his
beard and change his name, and then, un-
less he is person of marked physical
peculiarities, he can walk past every police
officer in the city without fear of detection.
WHERE THE SHOE PINCHEs.
Why so many men break away from home
ties is something Inspector McAleese does
not pretend to understand. He realizes the
fact that outsiders do not always appreciate
the troubles in household. He recognizes
the great truth uttered by historical gen.
tleman, who, when asked why he desired a
divorce from his beautiful wife, lifted up
his foot. and pointing to his shoe, said,
"That is handsome boot, is 1t not; but who
can tell where it pinches?" The Inspector
is somewhat of a philosopher-he does not
attempt to answer the query, but simply en-
deavors to keep the aforesaid pair OF boots
together.
AS matter of conrse, liquor, which has
largely supplanted gold as the root of all
evil, is at the bottom of most of these cases
of domestic infelicity. although other mat
tiers occasionally enter in, differences in
religion being we'll up In front, and some
tines politics cause a divided household.
On one occasion dispute as to whether or
not new pillow was necessary for a tarm led
the farmer to endeavor to lose his sorrow
and identity in the great gas metropolis,
while failure to secure a sewing machine of
particular pattern sent one wife out into
the world. The Inspector believes she was
very glad when she was sent home again
with her husband.
PECULIAR BUDGET OF LETTERS.
Inspector McAleese receives any number
of fletters from husbands and wives who are
searching for their mates. Some of the let
tiers cover nearly quira of paper, and con-
tain biographical sketch of the writer and
of the missing husband, with a detailed &C.
count of the circumstances which did or
might have been caused the breaking away
of the absent one. The Inspector of Police
l~oa, 4haeo 4
larry docketed and filed. In few years the
coming author of the American novel will
find in the departments archives enough
narrowing situations to keep his heroes and
heroines in the worst kind OF trouble.
Some women place great confidence in the
impersonal power of the press, and send their
plants to the newspapers. The DISPATCH
receives many of them. One of them is as
follows, and may be of interest to the ALLIE
gheny City police:
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
1 have taken your paper for five years steady
and now wish that you would please do me .
favor. have got good man, and he works in
divers lower mill Woods Run. OF late he has
taken to playing poker. and goes to house in
divers brick row. He spends most OF his
money there, and can get no good from him.
do not want to get the house pulled because
am neighbor, and do not desire trouble, but il
they do not stop will have to, because many a
pay II makes me anu my CnllQT6n SQOTt. WISH
you would oblige me by mentioning this in your
paper. Yours respectfully, from true and |
faithful wife, CONSTANT READER.
CHANCE FOR A GOOD GUEssER.
Another lady mourns the absence OF her |
husband, and desires that he be returned to
her by any one who may run across him and |
him from her description. She |
will not give his name as she does not want |
to hurt his feelings by undue publicity.
The specifications set forth that the gen.
tleman is 46 years old, feet inches in |
height, weighed 13O pounds when last seen,
and has a smashed finger, His nose is
SCARED, but the lady does not remember OF
which side. A small mustache and goatee,
black ewes and hair complete the picture of
this unknown small gentleman with dark
As the writer fails to give her address, the
finder OF the recreant husband must use his
ingenuity in locating her, or else advertise,
Found, an estray husband. Possession
given on proving property and paying
charges"
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