The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-22
ARTz A BAD EGG.
He Rounds Out Long Black
Record
With Domestic Infidelity and
Has Fled.
AN OTTAWA WOMAN
Prominent in Free Love Circles
Infatuates the ''Ginral."
Letters Are Interchanged Which
Mrs. Artz Intercepts.
EXPLOSION FOLLOWS.
ArtZ Leaves Home and Has Not
Been Heard Of.
Mrs. Artz is Sick in Bed at
Her Home.

Ex-Adjutant General Artz is gone. His
friends do not know where he is and his
wife has not heard from him in month.
The disappearance of Gen" Artz is the
result of domestic troubles in which an
other woman played an important part
Mrs. Artz. who lives in Hicks fats on
Tyler street is now lying dangerously
sick from nervous prostration supposed to
have been caused by the trouble which
eliminated in the fight of the ex-war-
rior.
"GeneraP' Artz was a member of the
State Free Thinkers association, which
is also kind of free love institution.
A year ago last fall when the society met
in Topeka he met and became acquaint-
ed with one of the women members who
lives in Ottawa but whose name is abso-
lutely known only to Mrs Artz and Artz
himself.
Last fall the society met at Ottawa and
General" Artz attended. A little more
than month ago. when the General"
was away from home, letter came that
excited his wife:s suspicious.
She did just what most women
would do under the circumstances,
opened the letter, and she
was dazed to find the proof
of her husbands unfaithfulnsss. The
letter was from the Ottawa woman, and
it showed that arrangements were being
made for an assignation in Topeka.
Mrs. Artz concluded that she would
play her hand and watch the course of
events. She accordingly answered the
letter on a typewriter and signed her
husbands name. She agreed to the details
for the meeting and made some sugges-
tions. One or two letters were exchanged,
and the arrangements for the meeting
were completed.
All this time "General' Artz knew
nothing of the plot being made in his
house. When he returned to the city his
wife said nothing to him about the let
ters.
The time for the meeting arrived and
the woman from Ottawa was present
She was waiting for the General" and
she did not have long to wait, but instead
of the towering form of the warrior "a
plump spry little woman bobbed up be-
fore her and said:
"Well, 1 am here. What do you
want?"
The woman from Ottawa was dumb
founded. She tried to explain. but Mrs.
Ariz who had come in place of her hus-
band, gave no time for explanations. She
told the Ottawa woman what she thought
about the matter
There wordy war with no wit
nesses. When the interview was ended
the woman from Ottawa went home and
Mrs. ArIz hunted up the General" her
self.
What she said to him no one knows,
but in day or two he shook the Dust of
Topeka off his feet and he has not been
seen since. Mrs. Artz's friends say that
she has not heard from her husband
since, either.
A JOURNAL reporter called to see Mrs.
Artz last evening, but was told by
nurse that she was too ill to be seen.
Mrs. Ariz has called on a lawyer and it
is likely that a divorce suit will result.
week ago an item appeared in an
Edwards county paper saying that Gen
crap Artz had been in the county, but
nothing was said about his business.