Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-04-12
A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT|
Two Married Women Skip
With Sh0emakerS.
UNPAID BILLS LEFT BEHIND.
The Affair Has Caused q Sensation in
the City Of Shoes.

LYNN, Mass, April l2-There Is q very
serious state of affairs at the dining room
at A. Pearl street. Mrs. Charles s. Hus-
sey, proprietoress Of the dining rooms. and
Mrs. Matte Simons have left town with
out leaving any address, and ON the same
day two gentlemen boarders left for parts
unknown. Subsequent developments
seem to indicate that there were very cor
dial relations between the pairs One of the
boarders, Alvin Bixby, is young unmsr-
ried shoemaker of % He is considered a
very good looking fellow, and for some
time past IL has been evident that Mrs.
Hussey was very much smitten with the
gay young shoemaker. Indeed 80 marked
were Bixby's attentions that Mrs. Hussey's
husband, Charles 5. Hussey. a meat cook
In the kitchen, found fault and finally left
the house, returning after day or two.
The Other Man In the Case
is Will Sears, also shoemaker, aged 25.
He has room at the Woodward House
and dined at Hussey's. He divided his
attention at meals between Mrs. Simons
and another young lady, but it was evident
that Mrs. Simons was the favorite
Saturday evening Mrs. Hussey collected
from her boarders a sum of nearly $500.
She also sold the dining room to Mrs.
Addie Ii. Neal for the sum of $780, Monday
morning Mrs. Hussey and Mrs. Simons
started for Boston, telling the other em
ployes they would return at 1l:30. But
they never came back. 1t also appeared
that Mrs. Hussey failed to settle several
bills upon her departure, one Of SlS9 to r.
NJ. Durland, and one of $40 to Small q
Jones.
When IL was learned that she had flown,
these firms Immediately sent out repre-
sentatives to Boston To look her up. By a
lucky chance they come face to face with
Mrs. Hussey as she came from lawyers
office. At first she refused to pay them,
claiming she had 10 money, but finally
she was induced to pay their respective
accounts Mrs. Hussey's movements were
further observed by Mr.. Hussey. He fol-
lowed her To the Boston and Lowell depot,
where she boarded the 1880 train for the
north. She was alone when she took the
train. 1t is known that Mrs. Simons took
the l0:40 train out of Boston. also for the
north.
Was Premeditated.
The gentlemen boarders had left evil
dence of their going. Bixby telling his
friends that he was going to Chicago.
Los Angeles, Cal, and had his trunk
shipped to Boston Monday morning. Ii IS
told by the dining room girls that Sears
had been overheard to say while in earnest
conversation with Mrs. Simons, I'VE will
go ahead and wait for them," and various
other remarks that made it evident that
he was endeavoring to coax Mrs. Simons
to go somewhere with him. Mr. Hussey
stated that he thought his wife had gone
TO join Bixby. He should make no further
effort to ascertai the fact.
Mrs Hussey owes about 300 to various
firms who have trusted her for groceries
and meats
Sears was married man, although he
has not lived with his wife for some time.
She lives here and is known by her maiden
name. Mrs Simons, whose husband Is
very sick with consumption at Rockland,
has been keeping house for her widowed
father In Colby place tenement. She Is
only lS years of age and very well known.
Mrs Hussey is also very attractive wo-
man and was held in high esteem. The
affair has caused much talk and was sur
prise to all who knew the parties concerned.