St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-20
OF, THE VILLAIN!
That Is How William PoIhanus'
Wife Feels Toward Him.


Wife Feels Toward Him.
William T. Polhamus. of 210S Polk
street northeast, left Minneapolis about
three weeks ago. He left under Pc
culiar circumstances. and his departure
was the final link in a chain of peculiar
circumstances. The good people of New
Boston, neighbors of Polhamus, see in
his last act the elimination of a choice
bit Of scandal. They may be wrong, but
the circumstances point in another di-
rectiOn.
Polhamus is a cigarmakcr. For sew
eral years he has been foreman in tie
factory of Hooker d Manly. His pay
was good. but his family. SO it is said.
never enjoyed much of it. The gossips
say that he lavished his earnings upon
another woman. not his wife. P0lhamus
was married TO his present wife six
years ago Things ran smoothly for
time, and then Polhamus began to neg
Iect his family. Often he did not come
home nights, and was often under the
influence of liquor when he did arrive.
1t went this way for years. P0lhamus
was well liked by his employers. and so
well concealed did he keep his drink
habit that they were not aware of it
until recently.
The first intimatiOn Mrs. Polhamus
had OF her husbands unfaithfulness
WAS just after Thanksgiving. She
found two letters on the floor that had
dropped from her husbands pocket.
To the first there was no date or sig
nature. 1t was evidently from a woman
and was besprnkled with terms of
endearment. An elOpement was limited
at. and the writer was sure he could
never doubt her love when they were
together for life" The second letter
was from POlhamus' own neither in
Tacoma. he peculiar thing about it
was that it showed her to be a party TO
the elOpement scheme. She evidently
expected POlhamuS and the woman in
Tacoma. 1t is even said that she had
first introduced the woman to her son
III The hope of breaking Off his relations
with his wife"
SO the stories go. There NAV be no.
thing in il, but Mrs. P0lhamus thinks
that there IS. Anyhow. she refused to
live longer with her husband. He
pleaded for forgiveness. After few
weeks Mrs. P0lhamus relented. Their
domestic relations were improved for a
while. All the world seemed serene
again. But three weeks ago Po!hamus
disappeared without previous notice to
his family. He was heard from at Mus
kegon, Mich, where he went to get
money from sister. From there he
went 10 Tacoma. where he now is with
his mother, and, it is supposed.
win his paramour. Polhamus
told his employers of his inten-
ton to leave two days before lis de-
parture. and also told them of his reIa-
lions with the woman who is now sup
posed TO be with Inn, as he said be
should take her to Washington with
him. Her name is not known. DR.. L.
O. Cosman, of New Boston, is brother
m-laW of Mrs. Polhamus. He said yes
terday that Polhamus had treated his
wife brutally-n0t by physical abuse.
but by leaving her alone aud without
money. He said Polhamus had never
provided clothes for his family. and
with the exception of one dress. the
friends had kept them clothed. He re-
GREETED the publicity which.tEe elope
ment had led to, and said that evidence
was ample that Mrs. Polhamus was in
no way 10 blame for her husbands con
duet. WI