The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-12-23
HE BUNCOHD HIS BRIDE F.!
AGNES SCOTT HAS A TALE
OF WOE.
WAS DESERTED AND DEFRAUDEI
Her Faith in Detective Agencies
is Shaken and She Has Under
taken the Work of Running
Down Her Husband.

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.s5Ise sJiveX last night and few
AK 1sNsiZ people ventured upon |
%iisTs Il 49, the streets to face the
E.sI.,sS Xxx - nipping blasts. Those |
~. Zg4EtE who did make their |
go appearance did not |
linger upon the streets and when not within |
the friendly shelter of the theatre walls, or
amid the scene of festivity at the Columbia
Hose Ccmpany's fair, sought the warmth of
the home freside
But there was one person who braved the
chilly blasts more than any other than the
members of the police force This person
was a tall, handsome and elegantly dressed
woman who spent two hours fitting from one
place to another A HERALD reporter was
attracted by her actions, which were those of
person making an anxious search for some
one. After watching the woman for some
time the reporter succeeded in arranging a
conversation that ultimately revealed the
secret Of her strange conduct The story is
told in the woman own words: "My name
is Agnes Scott and I reside at Latrobe. / am
q
penalty if / can trace him and get him
within the hands of the law. He is a base
deceiver and thief. In the spring Of 1890 |
visited relatives at Savannah, Georgia, aud
there | met a man named Thornton Scott.
was introduced to him by the friends I was
stopping with and all that l could learn OF
him was very much in his favor SO Tar as
respectability was concerned. / understood
that he was manager for commission house
in Savannah and was reputed to be worth
several thousand dollars l spent eight
weeks in Savannah and during that time
Scott paid persistent attentions to me
| Finally we became engaged aud in November,
1890, we were married at Pittsburg We
went to my home in Latrobe and in the
middle of January, following, he left me
there, saying that he wanted to return to
Savannah and close negotiations for branch
Of the house he intended opening at Phila-
delphia. Before going he succeeded in
securing $4,000 from me, under the pretense
that he needed the money to close the bargain
and his own money was tied up in an estate
that would not be settled until the following
autumn
"After patiently waiting for several weeks
to hear from Scott and not receiving a re-
sponse to any of the letters ! had written
him, I started for Savannah and to my great
astonisbment l learned that he had not b. en-
iu that city for several months. also
learned that he had embezzled several hun
dred dollars from the commission house there
and the circumstances showed that the money
he thus secured went to pay the expenses at
tending our marriage l returned to my
home broken hearted. was advised to place
but the sorowful experience of a relative of
mine, who was pra ticaly robbed by such an
agency deferred me in following the advice
and l concluded to abide my time. A few
weeks ago my brother, who is a commercial
traveller, wrote me that he attended play at
Williamsport. He learned that my husband
was a member Of a theatrical company that
had just left that city for tour of the coal
regions, Singularly enough my brother did
not send me the name of the company and /,
ON the spur Of the moment, started out on the
clue. My brother is now somewhere out in
Missouri transacting business and IL is i'm
possible for me to communicate with him at
present. Thus far have visited Shamokin,
Ashland, Girardyille, Pottsvile and other
places in this section where theatrical per
formances have been given and to-day came
to this town, but all my ioumeying has gone
for naught l have satisfied myself that my
husband is not connected with the Minnie
Lester Company, which is playing here, and
the continuous disappointments have dis
couTaged me. | will make arrangements "a
have all theatrical companies that come in
this section scrutinized aud return to my
home to await developments. / would give a
thousand dollars to have that scoundrel, % con
cluded Mrs Scott, as the reporter left her.
Mrs. Scott is evidently as determined as
she is handsome. She said she was not afraid
to travel alone through the country and she
has three more thousand dollars to part with
if she can see any chance of overtaking her
treacherous husband Mrs Scott went tC
Pottsyille this morning She intimated thai
she would make arrangements to have q
watch kept in this region on her husband by
a promise of liberal reward in case o
success and nothing if the man should not be
found. But unless there is a sleuth hound o
rare characteristics which we have failed Il
find in our travels we fear that Mrs. Scot
will not succeed in making such bargain.
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