The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-16
GONE WITH ANOTHER MAN
Mrs. Steiter of Stevensville
Elopes With MIR. Simpson.
HER HUSBANDS ANXIETY
He Says She Is Mentally Unbalanced
and Simpson Took Advantage OTHER
Condition-Steps Taken to Bring
Her Back Home.

Missoula. Aug. Is Mrs. Amy Steiter
of Stevensville played the leading part
in sensational little incident that
stirred some things up here to-day.
This morning Sheriff Curran received
telephone message from the woman's
husband at Stevensville asking him to
arrest his wife, as she was preparing
to elope with a man named Simpson.
Steiter said that Simpson was on his
way to Missoula by wagon road and
that Mrs. Steiter had taken her little
daughter and gone on the train. Sheriff
Curran said that he would locate the
woman if she were here, but that he
could not arrest her without warrant,
and advised the husband to get il Wdr-
rant at once. The woman VAS found at
a local hotel
Immediately after her arrival she
purchased d large basket and went 10
bakers, where she had ii we'll
stocked. No warrant was received and
no further information from Stelttr, so
no attempt was made TO detaln the
woman. When the Bitter Root freSh,
came down tonight the husband was
aboard. The eastbound train was al
ready in the yard and he rushed along
the platform looking for his wife. lie
discovered her III one of the coaches
and rushed in. He seized the girl and
rushed out again. His wife followed
him and the two talked together on
the pla tfornl for a time until the train
started. Then the woman ran for the
steps of the coach from which she had
come and climbed aboard. The hus-
band shouted to an officer that the
woman was abandoning her child and
he wanted her stopped. The otflcer dld
not know that the man was the
Wuman's husband, SO he tried to catch
her.
When the train stopped at the water
tank in the yard the officer talked with
the woman, who said that The man was
her husband and that he would taxi
care of the child. That hging the case.
the woman was allowed to 90 and the
husband is here with the little girl, u
child of about years Of age. I hA
woman had IA ticket for Bonita. Ii Is
said that the man Simpson was on the
train and that the two are going 1ur-
Their than Bonita.
Steiter. the husband. is very much
worried about the matter. He says
that his wife is mentally unbalanced
and that she has had several bad at
taCks lately, so bad in fact that plans
had been made to send her to Warm
Springs for treatment. He says thai
Emmet simpson, who has stirred VI
this present trouble, is a man who
works around ranches at odd jobs, and
that he has taken advantage of the un
fortunate condition of the woman. Mrs
| Steiter left her home yesterday and she
| and Simpson spent the night together
| in a deserted cabin near Florence. AT
ter the woman escaped tonight, Steitel
| sought the advice of the county attor
| ney. who told him that this county hac
iIlri s1jrt ion in the matter A war
| rant will be issued at Hamilton to
| night and Sheriff Davidson of Helena
| will be asked by wire to intercept thu
couple. Steiter says that he cannot &C
| count for his Wife's action, except by
| her mental condition. He says that h
has comfortable home and soo'
| business at SteNensville, and that hi
| wife left two children there. He i
| much gratifed over securing the littl
| girl that she took with her and hope
| that his wife may be overtaken ant
| brought back and cured.