The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-20
TIE WOMAN FLEEING
FROM HER HUSBAND
TT WAS WITH THE GREATEST
nIEEICIILTY THAT HER Low.
ER WAS RESUSCITATED.
BOTH OF THEM HAD TAKEN
AOOSE OF MORPHINE

Taken TO Warren County Last
Night to Be Tried for
Stealing ST. 900
RAN AWAY FROM HOME
LAST MONDAY MORNING
Since Then hey Have. spent Much OF
Their Time in the Woads The Wo-
man Declares She Will Never
Return to Her Husband
Denies Taxing his
For aught that ever l could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run
smooth
If you ever had any doubt that
Shakespeare was right in saying that
the course of true love never runs smooth,
you should have gone to the station house
yesterday.
There, in the largest compartment, was
beautiful German woman, twenty -four
years old, with tear-stained face ana
dishevelled hair. As she wrung her
hands and walked up and down the mar
row room. she talked to man in a neigh
boring cell.
Hugo, Hugo, Ich liebe," she kept say.
ing over and over, Sind sic kranke
And much more.
Thus all the day long she was declar-
ing her love to the man locked in the next
cell and asking after his health in tones
of the deepest anxiety. Always and
always the answer came back Itch Eebe
Il love you, love you better than life
itself, 1 swear by the Gods do. FIJI new
err leave you. Heaven cannot be so cruel
as to part us; rather than that we'll die
together Don't worry, my love, my
heart, it will all come out right.
Thus spoke Hugo Bolinnik to Elsa, the
wife of Politzsehr; Always in
German, for he cannot speak Of word of
English.
Readers of the News and Observer
KNOW SOucluiuS VI tLCli otOis' $500
told in Yesterdays paper. They came
here on the freight train from Weldon,
reaching this city at 2 o'clock yesterday
morning. They were on their way South.
having purchased tickets to Bennetsville,
S. c.
But the officers had been notified of
their coming and were on the lookout for
them; so when the train pulled into john
ston street station, Officer George Up
church arrested the couple and took them
to the guard-house to await papers from
Warren county, their home, charging
them with the theft of $1,000 from the
injured husband, and charging the man
with the further misdemeanor OF allenat-
ing the wife's affections.
They seemed not to realize what it all
meant, but they went quietly with the
officer Dead tired they both seemed, the
woman hardly able to drag herself along
the street and often stopping just Sec
ond and closing her eyes, as if for but a
moments rest.
They had not slept since Monday, when
they ran away from the husbands home
at Vaughan, nor had they rested or eaten
anything of consequence. Much of the
time they had been in the woods trying
to hide from the officers. But now 1t
was all over, the prison door was opening
before them, the beginning of the end had
come. One must go back to face an
infatuated husband, the other to confront
a friend whose roof had sheltered him
and whose bread had fed him only that
the serpent thus warmed might turn and
strike his fangs into the most vital spot in
his benefactor's bosom.
The realization of it all seemed, how
ever, not to depress the guilty couple.
And, as the cell doors changed behind
then. in the dim light, the woman's CUTE
nacht, mein lieber Hugo, slagen sic vol, .
was not altogether sad.
Who shall say that she was not happier
with him in prison than she would have
been outside without him? But yesterday
morning the reaction came-and terrible
enough it was.
Love is merely a madness; and tell
YOU, deserves as well dark house and
a whip, as madmen do; and the reason
why they are not so punished and cured,
is, that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the
whippers are in love too"
In spite of the hunger and WEAKNESS
they slept feverishly ON the hard cots III
their cells 1t was hardly ) o'clock when
the man called softly Elsa Elsa, slogen
sie?
"Nein, men liebe Hugo softly came
back the answer.
Then in low tones they talked for
awhile in German, from cell to cell. Then
all was quiet again. No one knew what
had been said for the officers cannot I'M
derstand German, and no one knew what
had happened until two hours later the
man was found unconscious from the influ-
eco of a large dose of morphine. The
,Yoman also was under the influence Of
tho drug. but not in dangerous condi-
ton though she told me later she took
o,ite quantity-that they had rather
die together than suffer the fate that
seemed to be in store for them.
The scene was pathetic, and perhaps
n little ludicrous Here were Two people,
Tar removed from kith or kin. A man
la LINEN madly in love with each