The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-11-29
Elopement Of q Saratoga Girl
With the Husband OF
Her Best Friend.
A Racine Clergyman Called From His
Bed 70 Mary 3 Runaway
Couple
Russell Sage Says Few Words
Pertinent 10 the Retired
Union Pacific President

sAnAroua. N. ~, Nov. 2s.--OH Thursday
81 last week Helen SC. john disappeared u'i-
observed from the home Of her parents.
search ~ her ruon showed that her ward
rol,c and trunks were also xome. Where bad
sl,o gone aud what had become Of herr
~nre the questions anxiousiy asked by her
family and friends. IL II now learned
that ON the day she left home she was
seen In Albany In company Win
married man, and that fogesher
they took passage for point Tar west
Ia Il a case of elopement and with man
yvho-e wife and Miss 81. John we're intimate
friends. The man Ii Prank ]. stroud, OF
s.n West Trenty- sixth street, New YORK
whore ne has left his foFsaken wife without
! cent for her support. stroud is about ~
years old. He is an electrician. Ia the
susnmer of Iss9 he came hare with his wife
% visit his father n-Iaw, George Wicken,
ia Greenfield, this county. Leaving
i,fs wife at her fathers. struud se-
s-sired employment with the sara
toga Electric Light company and
boarded with Samuel ~. John on WASH
gugton street. An intimacy soon spranE np
betweun hina aud Miss ~. John. and whieAs
- wuuid naw appear, became OF nm intinate
character Miss st. John and Miss Winken
were very dear friends before tire latter
married stroud. aud little did she think how
.oon she would prove 20 be her greatest Zoe.
stroud had accumulated about si,3oe While
ne was In business here About two weeks
ago he retnsned % his home In New York
remaining q few days. drew out Of the bank
xT0e which he had on deposit there and LEFT
san the same day that Miss sc John disaD-
psared from her home. What, aroused
els wffe's suspicious sf au eiope-
aent vas that ON her return here from.
= visit "a New York last summer
he faumd !. letter written by Miss 81. John
20 her husband, telling him how dearly she
loved him, and nphraiding him for bis cold
ssesa toward Der after the arrival of bis
wifc. In New York stroud worked for
soxart. corner ~ Fourteenth street and
talon xnumrm. Miss Helen st. john 4 about
4sss 8f &aN aas mas u4ara * saraaaxa !.
nsssxs beautiful resident bellies. pnsninent
in church work. popular in social life. and
irreproachahie character. Her infatnaiion
and fair Il 4 shock 10 al the propriettes.
and Il felt by her family aud friends as a
heavier affiction than her death would have
been,
Run Away 90 He Married.
RACINE. Wis. Nov es.-Two msn aud
thrr, women arrived ON the . O'Clock train
Yesterday alorning. They were from Chi
caxo and one OF the couples wanted to get
married Immediately. Rev. Charles Fer
ctvaI was called from his bed, and
a. the contracting parties ans
wrred a 4 the questions required In . sat
lsfaciory manner the knot was tied They
pledged the preacher 90 secrecy and then
went to hotel. where the newly married
couple registered as ;. Huthhertson ana
wife. The names OF the Others we're A.
Erickson and wife and Mrs. W. Decaskey'
IL Is supposed 20 have Deen runaway
match. The brides maiden name was Ertck-
A,n aud her home was In South Chicago.