The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-12-26
CLEMSON And HIS GIRL
Further Developments in the Sen
sational Gleason Elope.
ment Case.
The Appleton Experience of the
C0uple--Gleason's Home
History.

Immediately after the publication
of the elopement of Frank I. Glea-
son, ex-city recorder and ex-deputy
sheriff, by The GAZETTE on Thursday
of last week, there we're many details
hitherto corked up that we're given
out and have since been confirmed.
The facts came like thunderbolt to
those people who we're condoning all
of Gleason's past offenses and were
attempting to keep his last sensational
act on the stage of life from going
into the public press, and particularly
here in Redwood Falls.
It appears that the University ave-
nue. girl, with whom Gleason eloped,
was a frequenter of house of i'll
fame located in what was once the old
portion of the Clifton Hotel, St. Paul.
She is pretty little wench, with light
hair, of the blonde type and has seen
about twenty summers winters and
summers of active life, according to
one or two of her associates. She
made her headquarters on University
avenue but all of her assignments
were made at the Fifth street resort
above mentioned. Just how Gleason
became acquainted with her The GA
zETTE has not yet been able to ascer-
tain.
During the month of September
Gleason was residing at the Syndicate
Hotel in Appleton. At that time he
was working Swift county under Fred
Wheeler, district agent of the Sioux
City Engine & Iron Works. During
all of the time that he resided at the
Syndicate Hotel, Appleton, the St.
Paul maiden was with him as his
wife. He introduced her as such and
Bert Winter, proprietor of the hotel,
always referred to and supposed that
she was the real Mrs. Gleason up to
a certain time to be mentioned here
after. Gleason and the woman were
very thick and all Appleton queried
how man married to woman as
long as Gleason had been could be so
soft on his wife. All the time that
Gleason was in town he was with the
woman constantly and the most of
the time was spent at the hotel.
Shortly after the arrival of Gleason
and the woman Gleason told the land
lord of the hotel that he had only
been married to the woman about a
year.
1t was about this time-that time
always happening in the lives of
crooks-that a young man from Red
wood Falls appeared on the scene for
the purpose of transacting business
with Gleason. At the time that he
appeared at the hotel Gleason was
out in the country, but the young
mon was told that Mrs. Gleason was
up stairs.
"Do you know herr" asked the
clerk.
"Know her, we'll, I should say that
! do, and I would like to see her."
"How long has she been married to
Gleason?" was another question.
"Oh, about ten years, from what
know"
The clerk tipped the wink to the
young fellow aud afterwards told him
that he guessed that he did not know
Mrs. Gleason very we'll because Glea-
son had told him, the clerk, that he
had only been married about year.
It SO happened that the Redwood
party did not go up stairs to see Mrs.
Gleason, so called, at that time.
Shortly afterwards Mr.. Wheeler in
quired of w. H. Allen, agent at this
place, what kind of woman Mrs.
Gleason was, because he wanted to
invite Gleason and his wife to his
home in Appleton for dinner. Wheel
or thought she was very "slaagy" in