Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-08-15
DUNwIDDIR A DHSRRTfR.
There Was a Woman in the case, and
They Have Gone TO Albuquerque.

They Have Gone to Albuquerque.
From the III Paso Herald.
From TO day the trooper, Dunwiddie,
who took French leave from the post,
will have the word d%eserter written after
his nam on the company roll.
The company Of volunteers who are
now at the post are all from Fort Worth
There are a good many good fellows in
the company On their arriving at this
point they at one began TO come into
town. Capt. West, knowing a good many
Of the boys personally. gave them a free
rein aud let them have a good time, but
he soon saw that they were abusing the
privilege given them. They we're not be-.
having In town rs they should. They
were supposed 10 come TO town and be
back at the post by retreat. OF course
many Of them would do 30, but some OF
the others would come TO town in the
afternoon and stay until too late, then
they would nearly run their horses 10
d iath to get to the post in the stated
time,
On last Tuesday afternoon a week ago,
Corporal Dunwidde came to town. Wed
nesday came around and he didn't show
up; Thursday and Friday passed and
he didn't come in. On Friday night
Lieut. Mills CANT to town with a squad
Of men and looked for the missing man,
thinking that maybe he had beco ne In.
toxicated ard was being detained some
where q. Lieutenant Mills was unable to
lind D~unwiddle.
At the time II was not generally
known that there was a woman in the
case, but IL appears now that on the day
previous TO the arrival Of the troopers a
woman came ia on the G. II train from
San Antonio and at one began to look
for a private boarding house.
The woman was quite we'll dressed and
she seemed to be q quiet ladylike person.
She finally found a good room in the
lodging house near the p~OstO1ice on st.
Louis street, When she rented the room
from the lsndlady she gave the name OF
Mrs. Fink and said that her husband
would be- here In a few days.
Sure enough Ia two or three days time
her husband came in, and the other
roomers In the house were told that Mr..
Fink was q railroad ma II was noticed
that he would cOme 10 town every two or
three days and 90 right out again. Things
ran on In this way for about a week,
whom they told the landlady that as Mr..
Fink wa employed on the Santa Fe they
would go up TO Albuquerque to live. SO
they bought tickets for that place.
Now On further investigation It IL
learned that when Dunwiddle entered the
service Of the United States at TT. Worth
he did 30 against the consent OF this wo-
man, who loved him; AMI so when he went
to Austin she followed him there. When
he was ordered to San Antonio she packed
up and went, too, Then she was told by
him that they we're to come TO III Paso,
and the soldier boys left there on a special
train. On the first passenger train she
took passage, and the passenger got 10
nj Paso ahead OF the special, having
passed II somewhere between here and
San Antonio.
For the first two days or 20 Dunwiddle
or Fink couldn't come TO town TO see his
girl, but as soon az he could he did come,
and il was on n OF those visits to her
that they decided 70 leave the town. so
when he came In on that Tuesday, they
together a couple Of days and then
pulled out for Albuquerque.
Some Of the boys In talking about the
say the woman is up to all the
gaits OF a swift life, and that she has
money 10 burn, and they all think the
fellow wa a big fool for ever having en-
listed and a bigger Ono to have deserted
he could have tried to be released.
The state Of affairs in the army at pres.
il such that he had a good chance TO
out II he wanted, but now he has the
against him az O deserter from
the army in time OF war, and the penalty
severe.
There IL little doubt but that the mat
ter will be pushed and much effort be
TO bear to try to catch him.
From now on he will have to dodge the
officers for the balance of his life, for he
be arrested and tried on this same
whenever he il found.