The San Francisco call., 1896-10-20
SEATTLE W|FE'S
ROMAN TIC FLIGHT
Elopes While Her Husband
Is Toiling on the
Yukon.
Gees With the Man Who Had
Won Her Heart Twenty
Years Ago.
HAD MoURNED HIM as DEAD.
Old Love Is Revived When the Former
Suitor Appears at Her
Home.
HAD MoURNED HIM AS DEAD.

SEATTLE, WASH. Oct. 19.-Pathos and
romance abound in story of real life in
volving the elopement of Mrs. Charles
Ross and eight children, the eldest twelve
years of age, with Frank Mcintyre, her
former lover. Though they fed in
August, the story became known only
when Ross, who sought fortune last
March on the Yukon, returned to Seattle
on Saturday to find that his wife had gone
with the sweetheart of her girlhood days,
having sold everything they possessed in
the way of worldly goods.
Additional interest attaches to this
strange tale of woman's infidelity and
mans pertidy from the fact that the hero
inc, whose maiden name was Marian
Powell, mourned Mcintyre as dead before
marrying Ross. In the highlands of
Scotland they grew up together, and when
twenty years of age young Mcintyre went
to sea. Marian, with her hand upon
Bible pledged her love and constancy
until his return, when they were to be
married. Years passed and the waves
waited back cruel tale of the sea, to the
effect that the ship had been wrecked and
her lover drowned. Believing him dead,
she married Ross, with whom she lived
happily for fifteen years.
Mcintyre returned to his native land
and learned his sweetheart's whereabouts
from the latter's sister. Having in his
absence accumulated fortune, he started
out in quest of the woman who had, twenty
years prior, promised to be his bride. He
found her here. The old love reasserted
itself and Mrs. Ross and her children fled
with Mcintyre. presumably to Scotland.
Ross has employed Lawyer Frank E.
Sims to secure his children, if possible.
He says he is also willing 10 forgive and
forget the acts of his erring wife should
she chose TO come back. In the event
that Mrs, Ross Is found and will not sur
render their children, the husband and
father stated that he would bestow upon
the children, $500, half of what he made
during the few months he was absent on
the Yukon. He looks upon the affair
philosophically as regards the wife, his
chief concern being for the welfare of the
children, the eldest two of whom are re-
ported to have pathetically pleaded with
their mother not to take the step she did.
But their entreaties were of no avail.
Though only in moderate circumstances,
during the seven years residence of the
Roses in Seattle the husband provided
we'll for his family, say the neighbors, and
he was always kind ana loving to his
wife. Twice during his absence he sent
money to the ones at home, and until
Mcintyre appeared upon the scene early
in August Mrs. Ross corresponded regu-
lary with her husband, her letters belng
couched in terms of love and endearment.
Mrs. Ross is rather a prepossessing
woman, probably 40 years of age, Mcintyre
being several years her senior. Dressed In
habiliments befitting bride, the children
likewise gayly attired, all at the expense
of the rich paramour, leaving no word
save that she had gone never to return.
Mrs. Ross and the man 10 whom she had
in the flush and bloom of young woman
hood plighted her troth, left, giving to the
public neither intimation of their going
nor the place of their destination.