The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-15
Texas Woman's Per
severance Reward
ed With Success.
JOHN TATTERSALL IN CLINTON
Thought His Wife Cared
Not and Floated Up North
Three Years Ago.

Clinton, July 14-Neither absence,
time nor distance has availed to pre-
vent Mrs John II. Tattersall of Sher-
man, Tex, pursuing a search for her
husband who left her three years ago.
Now she is on the high road to a recon-
citation if that is what she wants. She
wrote a letter to Chief Bates, last week.
The letter said that the writer had
been told by some people who live in
West Warren that her husband, John
II. Tattersall, had died in Clinton and
been buried here.
Inquiries were made of the undertake
ers, but none of them had conducted
the funeral of John H. Tattersall.
representative of The Spy learned
| To-Day that Tattersall has been in Clin-
ton for more than year. He is a reg
lstered voter and is employed as a
weaver in the Lancaster mills.
L ms is not such a position as John
| n. Tattersall has been used to, but he
| says it will do until he can find some
| thing better
Mr.: Tattersall was in his room in
| smiths boarding house, ~ Greene
street, when The Spy man saw him.
|
| MS Wife had written to inquire about
hlm Il didn't think she cared that
much he said.
He was willing to tell how it is he is
landed in Clinton as weaver, after
| being boss in the mills at Sherman,
Tex, and designer in the cotton mills
at Hamilton, Ont
1T was like this" he said. 1.-THE
mills failed. The stockholders quar-
/ 7
| was discouraged. I started for Gal
weston to look for work. 1 intended to
go no further, but found no work.
| Don't come back without something
| to do" my wife said to me when we
| left our home in Sherman II made
| vow that l wouldn't. The boat was
Just leaving, and l got aboard, 1 made
| my way to New York and finally to
| this town. 1t took me two years to
| get as far as this, or nearly two years.
And didn't find such work as I knew
| my Wife would want me to have. so |
| didn't write home. Presently / forgot
| to think about home, and l supposed
she had forgotten to think about me.
| but If she is writing to find out where
L am, it's different.
Il shall go home to her as soon as 1
| can get money enough together
| Il should like to see her again after
| all these years.
Tattersall is going to call upon Chief
| Bates tomorrow to see his wife's letter.
| He doesn't know who it is that told her
| he was dead. Tattersall is a little the
| worse for wear, but he's so robust his
| funeral will hardly be tomorrow. He
| looks forward to a happy reunion in
| sherman, if things are as he thinks
| they are.
He is grateful because Mrs. Tattersall
has not secured divorce, as she might
easily, in Texas. because of his long
| assertion. And he thinks the United
| states is, after all, very small place
/ The representative of The Spy learned
from one of Tattersalls shopmates that
ne has held much better places in the
textile industry than the one he now
holds. Competition and combination
have been too much for him.
Judging by the tone of her letter, Mrs,
Tattersall is evidently anxious to re-
cefve news of her lord. A West War
rem man, who did not give the source
| Of his information, says that she has
| made inquiries about TattersalI in ey-
cry town in this country that contains
cotton mill. Tattersall is about 40
| years old.
| Chief Bates caused the arrest of Fred
erick w. Richter, this morning. The
warrant charges Richter with keep
| ing with intent TO SELL" He has been
in the police station since noon. Up
to O'Clock he has not been able to
get BAIL although he has tried hard.
Richter is the cleverest dealer in lia-
uors without license, that the police
have had in many day. Men are fire.
| quently arrested here for selling the
stuff illegally, or keeping it with intent
to SELL But they are willing to do bust
| ness in an humble way At most, the
police find few cases, and often only
a rev bottles. A quart of whisky, per-
haps, or less. But Richter is a whole
saler, if the police are correct in their
notion of him. He has been doing bust
ness on large scale. The police have
been on to his little game for some
weeks, but his cleverness kept them
from getting him until today. Two
i weeks ago 30 kegs of beer We're shipped
TO MIN at the South Clinton station. He
would have nabbed them but that the
police could not procure a warrant. The
warrant issuing authority held that the
mere shipment of beer to a person not
holalng a license will not warrant the
SEIZURE OF the stuff or the arrest of The
person. At any rate, Richter got those
81 Kegs out of sight so effectually that
the police We're never able again to get
slght or trace of them.
FROM this time the police watched
poth the South Clinton and the Clinton
stations for another shipment. They
expected the shipment would be made
TO south Clinton as before They wore
wrong. Twenty-eight kegs more came
wednesday night. The police spotted
them Thursday morning. The STUFF
was IN a freight car, and the car was
on a siding. "'@
just what line of action the police
took after finding the beer, they pre-
Ter TO Keep to themselves until thew
produce their evidence at the bearin q,
that will be given to Richter tomorraIy
morning, in the district court.
Up to this time, however. Richter has
removed eight kegs of beer from the
car and transported them elsewhere
The police may know where those eight
kegs are and they may not.
This morning Chief Bates, accon,pa-
MED by officer James O'Maley and los
Lawson. went to the place on Grove
street known as the California House
| This is combina ton hotel and board :
| ing house, run by Richter. and fire.
quented by all sorts of persons.
The search produced 176 empty beer
bottles, half dozen bottles full or
beer and a beer keg completely buried
| in the ground, but empty. This stuff
was brought to the station house. So
was Richter. He protested his inno
cence all the way down. and gave All
sorts of reasons for having SO many
bottles in his possession. II pought
dem for my wife" was the explanation
that he repeated oftenest
The police found a spot about a mile
from his house, where they believe the
80 kegs shipped to Richter two weeks
ago, were buried.
| The police idea of it Is that Richter
buries the stuff in the ground as fast
as he takes II away from the freight
house. When he wants a keg he digs
| down to II and hotties as n1lch az he