Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-21
BROTHER and SISTER ELOpE
W. J, JosIyn, of Kansas City, and
Mrs. Emma Wadleigh.
They Lived Together Two Weeks rs Il
and wife Before Discovering Their
Relationship Revealed by
An Aunt.

TOPEKA, Kas., May 14-An elope'
ment, the living together OF brother
and sister as man and wife for more
than two weeks and then the startling
discovery of their real relationship, this
is the record Of the story which is as fol
lows: William j. Joslyn, Of Kansas
City, had been reasonably prosperous
In his profession and had IA pleasant
home, Il wife, and two small children.
Last fall his business took him To
Leavenworth, where he met Mrs.
Emma Wadleigh, whose husband Is a
commercial travelling man now trav'
cling in the southern states. They be.
came infatuated with each other. In
December Joslyn again visited
Leavenworth when the init
macy Of the couple attracted at.
tention. In January, and again in
March MIRA Wadleigh visited Kansas
City. stopping at II Booth street hotel,
remaining II week each time, when
Joslyn was her constant visitor, April
10 he went to Leavenworth and the
two left that night on n Rock Island
train, having tickets for Chicago.
Since that time nothing hos been
heard of them until Friday, the 9th,
when they were seen in this city. Mrs.
Wadleigh went at oncet to the residence
of her aunt, Mrs. Anna Marshall, and
Joslyn went to an obscure hotel, where
he registered under al assumed name.
That evening Joslyn called On Mrs.
Wadleigh, and on being introduced TO
Mrs. Marshall was startled TO discover
in her his own aunt, who had been
again married since he had had any
knowledge of her. This discovered re-
lationship led to further inquiries,
when he was shocked to learn beyond
question hat Mrs. Wadleigh was his
w sister. Fourteen years ago, when
he was 10 and Mrs. Wadle.gh was but
o, their parents died but n few months
apart and the children were separated,
being adopted by different families.
They then lived in Illinois. The fami-
lies adopting the children had them
take new names, of course, SO that
they gradually lost all thought of the
past A few years after the J~oslyns
moved to Colorado, since which time
JOSlyu nus lOSJ Ill hnOWlcuRc OF MS
sister, whom he supposed to be still in
Illinois. He married in Colorado and
Don after came to Kansas City; con-
Meeting himself with IA firm of brok-
ers prospecting fairly. Mrs. Wadleigh,
it appears, had married in Jackson
Vile, ILL.,, three years ago, and a year
ago had removed with her husband to
Leavenworth, where she resided till
her trouble last month. She had kept
in communication with her own rela-
tives and knew where they were
though she had never spoken OF them
to Joslyn
The couple were on their way to
New Mexico when Mrs. Wadleigh de-
sired to stop off at Topeka and visit
her aunt, Mrs. Marshall, which name
revealed nothing to him. When the
discovery was made Mrs. Wadleigh
was SO overcome with terror that she
has been Frustrated ever since, while
Joslyn, after n long talk with his
aunt, took the midnight train for the
west, declaring that he would never
return, though he would make pro-
vision for tho support of both his
abandoned wife and his sister whom
he left In charge of his aunt,