New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-09

DESERTED WIFE WILL HAVE HEN W.
VENICE WHEN HER HuSbANp NJ
Tt-RNS UNDER ARREST.

Mrs Charlotte Smith. the crusader asai'S. III.
alleged evils of bicycling by women was iu' "''','
with q living text through the apPhcatio" '
Yesterday by Mrs. Lena Bent, an mteiiise'. ~
orod Woman about twenty -eight years od' h'iAe
Of No 1888 Wyckoff-st in the Butler street fo"ce
CO.., for a warrant for the arrest OF her huspaHu
charley Rent who it is alleged, mas elopeu ~
Boston In company with a young coioieo "
a family acquaintance. Mrs. Bent deposeu '"h'
her husband and Miss Kitty Jones roue """y
together on n tandem bicycle. and the uese'.eo
wife blames the bicycle craze for all OF "ei uo'
nestle ~. ,o
About seven years ago Mr. and Mrs Bent were
married and obtained positions as stewart a,'u
stewardess on board the steamboat 'Esnus.
husband received SIS month ana the VIZ So
and on each payday the thrifty pair oi'iueu '"''
money putting away tidy sum 'o"aiu pa. .
ohos,nc little home This they found at NO Io
Uvckoff-st and they kept on saving ther MONEY
nv putting Il in the bank. All went wei "t''' ~
summer when Bent who IS ight-coloreo So",'s
man. got the bicycle fever About thIee "'''' 80 -
ago he asked Lena If she would thlhk IL "lo"e :.
he took his salary and bought wheel lie si'u
ha had run across a great bargain at an auction
colo in Court-st She asked him TO walt until IAN
when she said they would hire TWO "hee's anu
learn TO ride and go out together. But INC ny
husband could not possess his soul III patience anu
a tempter in the person of Kitty Jones' Vi VI
Richmond staten Island. fancy bicycle rlue'
crossed his path and won him from the straleh
line of conjugal duty. On "Wednesday Of last we ,f
~, caroa around 10 his home in Wyckon-st WIN
a wheel The wife expressed more or less iesitt
that he had spent mu IN money. Dui as ne i,ru
always been a kind husband, she did nov a.
Der complainings TO any great extent re sald ne
Was going 10 take a ride. and TOOK Win MIN HIS
rIfe,s months wages 10 pay the rent with
on Friday Richard Jones, OF iort I',,iiio' ,'d
called on Mrs Bent and asked where hti huspai W.,
was He was told that Bent was protn9apy q" VA
Cvpnus But Mr. Jones' who Is an ora man. SiiI
~, ne was much afraid that Charley Bent had
eloped with his daughter Kitty ana had s l,,
away with her on a tandem on Wednesday Mi7'
Rent learned then for the first time thai hei M
band had been going out riding a good nedl WIN
L:;,fr ioncs who was acknowledged the best rider
OF her set on Staten Island old MT Jones stalivu
Tor Boston and yesterday sent word 10 broohyi
tSa. he had found his laughter and that she hnu
hnen married TO Charles Bent. The par , were
s,a,,,nr nj No SO Winchester-st. ana MT Jones
reoI,esfed Mrs Bent to come on at once ana c'.iin
herr husband The she thought OF INC
,,oro angry Mrs Bent became. and II dld not take
long for her TO dry her tears. There was an uhre
i.nting EXPRESSION about her mouth yesterday as
ehn narrated briefly her story in the Butter SU'ct
Court She Obliged to get hrr maI.i| - I ,
,iacate and then swear out Il warrant loi H'r
husband which she at once set about dolhs'