El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
DUNWIDDIE A DESERTER.
There was A Woman In The Case
and They Have Gone to Al
buQuerQue.

From today the trooper Dunwiddle,
who took French leave from the post,
will have the word deserter written
after his name on the compapy's 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 arriv-
ing at this point they at once began to
come into town. Captain West, know
ing good many OF the boys personal
ly, gave them free rein and let the
boys have u good time, but he soon
saw that they were abusing the priv
having in town as they should. They
were supposed to come to town and be
back at the post by retreat. OF course
many of them would do so but some OF
the others would come to Town in the
afternoon and stay until too late, then
they would nearly run their horses to
death to get to the post in the stated
time.
On last Tuesday afternoon q week
ago Corporal Dunwiddie came to town.
Wednesday came around and he didn' t
show up; Thursday and Friday passed
and he didn't come in. On Friday
night Lieut.. Mills came to town with a
SQUAD of men and looked for the miss
ing man, thinking that maybe he had
become Intoxicated and was being de-
tanned somewhere. Lieutenant Mills
was unable to find Dunwiddie.
AT the time it was not generally
known that there was q woman in the
case, but 1t appears now that on the
day previous to the arrival OF the
troopers q woman came in on the G.. b.
train from San Antonio and at once be-
gan to look for private boarding
house. ~ r--. .as,
The woman was quite well dressed
and she seemed to be quiet ladylike
person.
She finally found q good room in the
lodging house near the post office on
st. Louis street. When she rented
the room from the landlady she gave
the name of Mrs. Fink and said that
her husband would be here in a few
days.
Sure enough in two or three days
time her husband came in, and the
other roomers in the house were told
that Mr.. Fink was a railroad man. 1t
was noticed that he would come In
town every two or three days and 20
right ont again. Things ran on in
this way for about q week, then they
told the landlady that as Mr.. Fink was
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 is
learned that when Dunwiddie entered
the service of the United States in FIT.
Worth he did so against the consent OF
this woman who loved him,
and so when he went to Austin she
followed him there. When he was Or
dered TO San Antonio she packed up
and went too. Then she was told by
him that they were to come to Ell Paso,
and the soldier boys left there on a
special train. On the first passenger
train she took passage and the passen-
ger got to Ell Paso shead.of the special,
having passed 1t somewhere between
here and San Antonio.
For the first two days or so Dun
widdie or Fink couldn't come to town
to see his girl, but as soon as he could
he did come, and it was on one of these
visits to her that they decided to leave
the town. So when he came in on that
Tuesday, they stayed together q couple
of days and then pulled out for Albu-
querque.
Some of the boys in talking about
the matter say the woman is up to all
the gaits of swift life, and that she
has money to burn, and they all think
the fellow was big fool for ever hav-
ing enlisted and q bigger one to have
deserted when he could have tried to
be released. The state of affairs in the
army at present is such that he had q
good chance to get out il he wanted,
but now he has the charge against him
as a deserter from the army in time of
war, and the penalty is severe.
There is little doubt but that the
matter will be pushed and much effort
be brought 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 can be arrested and tried on this
same CHARGE wheneyer he ia found