Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-01
A SCRUB PRINTER.
II" Iheatens to Kill His Child. WIFE, md
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Many Wood Riverites doubles. 70
member J. E. Booth, a scrub printe
who worked in this city four or dv,
years ago, and left owing variou,
sums to business men and others hara
Some time ago he turned up in Sal,
mon City, where he secured enplov,
ment on the Recorder. A week ago
last Monday he skipped the town.
under circumstances which arc related
IN the Idaho Recorder as follows:
). E. Booth, of this office, skipped
out on Monday mornings coach ieay.
ing his many creditors to mourn his
departure. His little l6.year. old
bride found it impossible to live with
him, as within "a hours of bis mar.
rage ne drew a pistol and threatened
to blow her brains out, or kill him.
self. The brave girl succeeded 10
getting possession Of the weapon: a
truce was patched up and she man
aged to get along with him until Sun.
day morning, when after his going up
town and getting crazy drunk, she
told him plainly that she would not
live with him another day.
He then told his employer and ON
stating that he wished to borrow
money to send his wife back to her
former home, he secured $50, and in.
stead of keeping his promise to use
the money to defray her travelling ex-
penses, he took it and skipped, leav-
ing her without penny, stranger
in strange land. The deceived
wife is but child, and has gained the
sympathy Of all who have met her, by
her bright winning ways and her
childish manners. That she has
been grossly deceived in regard to
his true character is patent to all, for
no woman in her right mind would
marry such person, il she had any
opportunity to make his acquain>
lance.
The first knowledge they had of
each other was when he read an ad-
Vertisement which she had inserted in
The Butte Miner last April, in which
The advertised for position as com.
oanion to an elderly lady, and gave
Ter address. He wrote to her and
'aid he thought she would be much
better off as The wife of some good
nan in home of her own than to live
IS companion to some old woman.
n this way the correspondence cons
nenced, and she finally consented
o come out and marry him, against
he wishes and advice OF her foster
ather, who wrote to Booth asking
i'm to get her a place for her to stay
or week or ten days, until they
ould become acquainted a little, and
ot marry as perfect strangers. This
70 utterly refused to do, telling her
here was no respectable place where
he could stop.
This is only one more added to the
,ng lists of falsehoods which he told &
nd wrote to her. She is an orphan, r
aving lost both her parents by yellow
ever within a week of each other,
nd has been cared for by an adopted
ather who has had her carefully edu.
ated and taken care Of. The desert. i
d child wife has the heartfelt sym.
athy of the majority of our right ,
minded citizens who are indignant at
he half-crazy man who has abandon :
d the unfortunate girl in this heart. :
,ss manner. Public feeling IN this =
natter is running high, and his con- =
uct is universally condemned. If he .
'as in Salmon City to-day he would, =
'ithout doubt, receive suit of tar =
nd feathers which would be paid for y
,stead of the suit he now wears,
hich was purchased on stick"