The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-13
signs FOR CHARLES.
Interesting Sequel to the Wood
invilIe Romance.
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who caused the arrest OF BIS Sllss LIZA
johnson, and gambler Eaaaed oliver, az
Olympia iaxt Monday. on . charge OF
adusserg. called Ga Chief o. Police Rogers
akeuf ixo weeks age and left 3 osscrao-
4lcn OF BIS wife. asking thai she sfsoasd
be arrested IL. believed her &c Dc IN Oiyirt-
rss ilsiag wssh oliIssT. Chief Rogers
autographed chsef or Police NeFthg5 81
Olympia, xho soca located the parties
Ole johnson Was Informed o. the fact
aaa went over and sRors oct warrant
which xeeassd the arrest OF both the
wife and the man. Both we're bound
over TO the superior cours, and in default
Of bonds ara bvtn iaagaisAing Ia the
county jail
-ras starry az the family trouble dates
back many years and ii the womaE's
story il 10 BE believed, she nas been more
sSsned agalns. than SHINING Both are
GsiteraEe and ignorant and viii never Win
& prize al beauty SHOW. Die johnson
Is tan and raw-hcned, and the inndeIity
Of bis wife does nos appear 10 prey On his
rstnd. The wife Is plssnefsced. medium
slzei. darx compgexioEed little woman Of
probably IS years and has an honest ard
and both make poor fis, OF the English
language
Ole Johnson says thai they were mar
siea IN Minnesota in 1851. living there two
years. In 1854 they moved % Washington
and settled on a ranch near E4iensburg.
lie soon rented 4 second ranch and took
the ounsr. Ed Russell. 30 board With
them. and then the trouble began. Rus
eesl soon persuaded the woman to leave
and go to houseuerk In Elleasburg. Ac-
cogdIng 10 Johnson's story eli was not
ssyase for Russell, for the woman soon
transferred her affections 10 oliver. In
1sss Mrs. Johnson went back 10 Minnesota
oa visit. remained Two months and
returned 20 Culver In Yakima. where they
lived until last year. when they remov-
ed 10 this cs-e and later 90 10 Olympia.
Two boys, Issue of the Johnson union.
9-e AT school ia Kitsap county.
Mrs. johnson does not seem to reaiizo
that she has done any harm. shrinking
that she has heen divorced from John
son ten times as she puts IL. on ae-
.sunt OF his inhufnan treatment of her.
aae told her story IN straightforward
sad rlAiasiye way, and cried only when
summing up the muisitudious abuses che
has suffered az the hands OF .syohnson."
Sac alleges that they were married in
Aianesota as her husband says. and that
IN the FIRST two years OF their married
iIfo Johnson accumulated one child and
= host Of debts. the child. only, being
community property. At the end OF that
4ima everything he passessed. except the
x~hs }Safxs -
The boy AZ an encunsbrance TO the woman
and iegs the country. coming to Washing
ton, iie left In the might. and did not
write back for year. during which time
airs. Jehnson's niother-in-iaw cared for
airs. johnson and ihe boy. Mrs. johnson
felt keenly the Sights he had put upon
her during their life together, and did
not want To see hide nor hair of Clean
der again. but the tears and applications
OF the mother-in-law persuaded Airs.
Johnsoa 10 chase Ole on his way toward
tbs West She esngat him al ELLEN
bufk. az she calls. il ard persuaded him
10 try farming again. They rented q
farm. and while OLE '.sat In the house ani
smoked his sinking old pipe, the dirty
heart" Gin Mrs. Us wordsl his wife
sha first year she added 10 the johnson
store a good crop 81 wheat aud another
hoy. but Johnson abused her so that she
lay for seven weeks neatly deasi-ana
then she quit him-sive years ago. She
worked 10 f:Ilensbarg for a few years.
unsl he forced her 20 flee for her iife
Ne had a fonsness for attempting IA
tickle her throat With the SHARP edge of a
razor and other little playful Johnson
tricks OF that sort caused Mrs. j. To Zee
back 20 Minnesota She had sued him for
divorce. AM had served the papers on
him. bet she concluded that life was hef-
ter than divorce. ana left before IN.
suit came on for trial. While In Mime
sofa sac received letters from oliver who
r. a Enc looking. intelligent man. ana he
Offered her a home with him. She con-
rsssied thar she might "a we'll get some
pleasure ana klnassss out of life 50 she
accepted TIE ofYer. AMI has lived with
0sm ever since In Yakima. Seattle ana
OLYMPIA. When she left johnson he
told her 20 20 90 HI.
Oliver has always treated her Kindly
she says. and she was happy with him,
She thinks there may have been a little
irreSalari,y Ia their aniou. bas she does
rot sec what AasIFess n Is OF Johnson :.
he haslns forfeited all moral right her
sears ara years ago. BY abuse aaa harsh
treatment. He 50 frequently Informed
her Of his doubts as 10 ise paternity ~
tina children. ;hAs 81 discouraged her
srem remaining With hsm and ass1iag 70
tire Jahnsoa fold.