The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-22
WINS HER BACK.
Cattleman Long Leads His Run
away Wife Home Again.
She Smiles On Her Husband Once
More.
GOES GLADLY BACK.
GOES GLADLY BACK.
Leaning on His Arm, Leading
Their Little Boy.
She Had Run Away in Sulky
Fit.

Pretty Mrs. Melvina Long of Oska-
loosa went home with her husband this
morning apparently as happy and con-
tented as she was on the first day of
their honeymoon. She will not be tried
for forgery and every thing on both sides
las been forgiven. There is nearly 5000
credit and the lawyers will probably get
some of the money. The rest will go
back into the common fund.
Mrs. Long spent all yesterday after
noon at the police station. where she was
taken after her arrest by Officer Owens,
She pouted and seemed little nervous.
but persisted that nothing would alter
her determination to leave her husband.
She employed d. II. Hite to defend her
from the charge of forgery and'gave him
$50 of the money she drew from the o.
kaloosa bank.
The woman and her little boy were
kept in the court room at the city prison
and were not locked up. About 1880 last
euening the officers from Oskalosa ar
rived and with them came Deputy Sher-
if John NJ. Johnson, Marshall Gephart,
attorney for Mr. Long, John Long, the
woman's husband and Jonas and A. Z.
Collins, father and brother of Mrs. Long.
The party walked into the court room,
where Mrs. Long and her little boy sat.
The husband spoke but Mrs Long sulk-
lily hung her head.
"What do you want with NET" she in
quired.
1--WE want you to 60 home with your
husband. replied her father.
"Well, will never go back to live
with him." she replied decidedly.
Marshall Gephart suggested that Mrs.
Long and her husband should be left
Il fLear tf,ff ha 1aff
room and the door was closed.
Deputy Sheriff Johnson suggested that
a better place to talk would be at hotel,
as the conference was Interrupted and
the party then left the prison to go to
the Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Long took her husbands arm and
they walked to the hotel together while
the man led their little son by the hand.
1t was plain to be seen that the woman
was weakening in her determination.
The couple was left in the hotel par
lor and in few minutes the husband
appeared in the Office with happy smile
on his face and announced that every
thing had been made up and that his
wife would go home with him on the
morning train.
They left together this morning, and
by this time they are once more at home.
Mr. Long is we'll known Jefferson
Thursday morning he left homo to go to
a sale where he expected to buy some
cattle. When he returned in the evening
he found his wife and child gore and no
word to tell him where they were
He made search of the house and
found that Mrs. Long had taken her
clothing with her. He then realized
that she had run away.
The woman had walked to Oskaloosa
where she hired man to drive
her to Topeka. She first went
to a bank aud drew 5000 of the
money which had been deposited to her
husbands credit She had drawn money
from the bank before and nothing was
thought of the occurrence.
She was heavily veiled when she hired
the team and the driver did not suspect
her identity.
When Mr.. Long heard that a woman
had come to Topeka he concluded that
his wife was to meet another man here
and so the charge of forgery was made
as blind to apprehend her.