The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-09-28
BY THE LIGHT o THE NOON.
Mamie Norton's Flying Record to
Catch her Skipping Lothario.
She Traces Him From Aberdeen to
Redwood and then to Morton.

Gley whether a man named Clarence
F. Norton had stopped there during
the races in this city last week. Pres
emily her eyes fell upon the name, OPP
posite the residence column of Chi
cage, ILL.," and taking pen she
scratched out the Windy City, wrote
Aberdeen" and emphatically re-
marked that Chicago was no more his
home than was it that of the clerks.
The lady, who has seen only %
summers, was the wife of Clarence F.
Norton, if her statements are to be
accepted. She had driven all the way
from Sleepy Eye that morning with
the hopes of catching him here and re-
ceiying an explanation. Her story is
that her husband and she have been
living at Aberdeen for some time past,
both boarding at the Sherman House,
and her husband running a sightless
swine in that city, unknown to her. A
little over two weeks since the police
got on to the swine, or the swine was
not paying due penitence to the police,
and Norton was obliged to flea in or
der to prevent arrest. His pretty lit
tie vie drove him to Groton in the
dead of night, and at that place Nor
ton left her without saying a word.
He skipped to Andover, from there
to Bristol, and from there to Water
town. Here he took up with an in
mate of house of ill repute, whom he
sent to Huron, he following on the
next train, and the two residing to-
gether for some time. His wife fol-
lowed him up, visiting every town
that he did, and in Huron she came
across the woman whom Norton had
skipped with. There came near being
a hair pulling exhibition, but it was
avoided by some means. Norton
skipped that town without his wife
seeing him, and came to Redwood
Falls, where he backed Jim Goddard's
horses in the betting ring. His wife
heard of him being here last Friday,
and took the first train for this place,
arriving in Sleepy Eye early Sunday
morning. She secured livery and
was driven to Redwood Falls, arriving
at the time above stated. 81
Clerk Gley informed her that her
husband left the city with Jim God
dard on Friday, presumably for Min
neapolis, although the two expected
to return and do the Morton races.
Mrs. Norton engaged a livery Of
Barnes Bros. and was driven to Nor
ton, where she POUNDS that her hus-
band was still in Minneapolis. She
engaged hotel accommodations, with
the intentions of remaining there un-
til her cratic husband put in an APP
pearance.
Spectators at the races, and around
the betting ring, will remember the
gay young Norton. A fellow who
dressed in the latest styles, smoothly
shaver, and scar or lump on his
face,the latter received while attempt
ing to brutally maltreat his wife; and
on Friday night, at the opera house,
he was seen in company with rather
handsome young dining room girl of
Hotel FRANCOIS, the two appearing
very spoony on each other, he insist
ing that he was still in state of sin
gle blessedness, and she, poor thing,
drinking in the words of the gay de-
ceiver as she would champagnes from
the ringing glass. Norton wore a trav-
cling mans badge,which his wife con-
tends, he stole from some other fellow,
as he had no business with it. Norton
was always successful in placing his
money on the right horse.
Norton is 80 years old, although his
appearance would not indicate that
age. He married his present wife
Mamie in Superior three years ago,
and it appears that the two have been
living together now and then eyer
since, that is, whenever Norton was
fortunate in the ring, and came home
pleasant, and not attempt to maltreat
his angel. Norton has a father and
two sisters living in Carroll, near De-
troit, Mich, his father a,well-to-do
and prominent citizen of the place.
Mrs. Norton met her husband at
Morton Monday, but she did not Gre
ate scene on the street or In the ho-
tel. She proposes to remain with him