Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-23
all FOR LOVE.
IT TAKES A DRUMMER FIFTEEN MIN
UTEs TO WRECK A HOME.
How Dashing Runaway Wife Eluded
Her Husband in This City-The
Latter's Mud Tramp.

How Dashing Runaway Wife Eluded
Her Husband in This City-The
Latter's Mud Tramp.
Society circles have been considerably
stirred in Gait during the past two weeks
over sensational runaway match. The
belle of the town, a young married lady,
tired of her boy husband and skipped out
with drummer. Drummers are danger
GUS in more ways than one, and when it
comes to making love on short notice they
| get there on time, and an engagement or an
elopement is generally planned within half
an hour. They have become known for
their boldness, and the opposite sex as a
rule concede that an introduction to
travelling man" is unnecessary, and the
''mash' of a drummer is usually &C.
cepted as matter of course and no excep-
tons taken.
| About a year ago drummer struck the
town of Gait. His grip was of the latest
style, bis diamond one that would make
J hotel clerk turn green with envy, while his
| style and lcquscity was only equaied by
| his brass and immaculate gall.
| He put up at leading hotel, and in less
| than fifteen minutes had made q mash on
the landlords daughter. His dash and
audacity carried the day, and before the
| train left Che stopped in town one hour he
had won her affections, and the confiding
girl had consented to be his bride.
OF course he made another mash" at
Lodi and one at Stockton, and the Gait girl
looked and longed for the letter that never
came.'
She finally made up her mind that her
affianced had Joined "McGipty" search
ing party, and the sweet words that bad
been spoken and fair promises that had
been made in her brief half hour of bliss
were forgotten. However, she was young
and dashing, and, having had taste of the
romantic, was eager for another love affair."
SO when long, lank and callow youth
came along and laid siege to her affections
she soon brought him TO the proposing
point the minister was called in, and this
time she was not left.
Everything went along smoothly for sew
eral months, there was billing and cooling"
in their little cot, their conjugal bliss was
the remark of the town, and as they walked
out evenings together taking ia the beau
ties of the suburbs those who met them
would always be reminded of that beauti-
full passage from Bulwer-"Two souls
with but single thought, two hearts that
beat as one" or words to that effect.
In the midst of bis ecstatic bliss, while
he was Singing gln' over the hotel bar,
who should drop in for matutinal cock
tail but the drummer. He drank his DO
tion-it takes two Gait cocktails to produce
death-and Immediately, as he s,roked his
moustache and viewed himself in the mir
ror, asked about his girl" With seven
by.nine" smile illuminating his beaming
countenance, the "bar-keep' said that the
young lady referred to had some months
since been led to the altar by himself.
The drummer could remain in town but
half an hour, but in that time he managed
TO have five minute chat with the young
wife, went back to the saloon, had her hus-
band mix him another drink and wished
him much happiness in his matrimonial
adventure. He then TOOK the train for this
city.
The next day the wifes acts caused the
husband to suspicion that all was not as il
should be, and when she boarded the train
for Sacramento, he did also She refused
to sit in the seat with him, and would not
talk to him. He accused her of running
away, and asked about the drummer, but
she resented every advancement, and was
| as dumb as an oyster.
When they arrived at the depot she bid
hime go and secure hack and take her
| to hotel He went out upon the platform,
engaged the vehicle and returned. but his
wife was nowhere to be found; he went
| through the train, looked in the ladies'
waiting-room, but she was nowhere to be
seen. At that moment the Knights Land
| ing train was bowling over the Sacramento
| bridge, and nestled beside the drummer in
the rear seat of the passenger coach was
| the faithless bride.
| The "boy husband had been given the
slip.
The runaway pair stopped off at Davis
vile, where the drummer introduced the
woman as his wife.
| The husband returned to Gait by the
next train, after putting detectives on the
| track of the runaways.
| Through his mother in law on Tuesday
| last he learned that bis wife was in San
Francisco. The news was given him at 10
O'Clock at night. He must reach her on
the next train. He was dying, he said, 10
see and forgive her and to mash the drum
mer on the nose"
II was half past 2 o'clock in the morn
ing. Every body in town had gone to bed,
except the policemen who hug the bar
room stores, few struggling singers who
notes, and an occasional cigarette fiend,
! whose tottering steps are living proof of
Tom Clark's logic. The rain came down
in torrents, the wind blew in gusts, and no
one, except they were sent for doctor.
would venture out in the bowling ele-
ments. A newspaper reporter, who had
jus. completed his nights labor. sat by the
ire in the office of the Capital Hotel dis
cussing la grippe: McGinty, the snow
blockade and kindred topical events,
when the door opened and in stalked an
individual who was Immediately taken for
McGinty.
If he had been drawn from the bottom
of the sea- or pulled from the muddy
river that runs in front of the city, he
could not have presented more distress
ing appearance. Wet, cold, muddy he was
a picture Of misery and despair. He looked
at the clock and remarked, II have walked
in from Gait in lust four hours" He wss
| the husband whose wife had skipped with
the drummer. He pulled off his coat and
put it on the chsir to dry; be pulled eff
his boots aud wrung out his socks, while
the accommodating clerk piled ON more
coal and made a rousing fire.
The reporter turned around to read a
paper and the desperate husband. in a low
and cautious voice, invited the clerk 10
take seat beside him. He then, IN an
undertone, reciied the story OF his wrongs,
and told how he had walked forty miles in
the night through binding storm to get
the first train out OF Sacramento, 10 go
after his runaway wife. He wound up his
statement by saying. Il am so mad that
really believe il l meet that drummer
will be tempted to smash him in the
nose"
He left for the bay the next morning; he
found bis wife, but she did not return.
he gave him little motherly advice and
be returned to Gait without her and is
again behind the bar dealing GU. liquid re
freshments.