The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-12-07
HUNTED THE WORLD OVER.
Long Searches BY husbands for Their
Missing Wives.


II the depressin statistic ofthed d.
yorce courts may be believed the world
Is full Of men who are trying to get
away from their wives, and, Of course,
vice versa.
Such being the case, it is almost
startling to come upon instances Of
Just the opposite tendency. lncredi-
bic though it may seem to those who
follow modern matrimonial history,
there are Northumberland cases Of
men who have hunted the world over
for their wives.
a Canadian wife who disappeared
some ten years ago left a husband
who could by 10 means reconcile him
self to solitary living. For eight
years he persistently and vainly
sought her in every corner Of the con-
tinent, Their home had been in Of
.. tawa.
Having no means ofhis own, hehad
to search and earn his living at the
/, same time, walking from town to
5 town, doing odd jobs in each for food
4 and shelter, and saving every penny
4 he could make and spare. He searched
a every likely place in North America.
e and then went over to England, where
his wife had been born and where hel
relatives lived.
y There he picked up tidings which
It took him to New Zealand the mOmen
n he had money enough to pay his pas
h sage there. He r~esolutely refused t.
rs believe she was dead, and set sail TO
New Zealand fully convinced that h
would find his aged wife there
Whether he did ornot is not known.
Nearly 20 years ago a Bristol me.
chant quarreled with his wife, VII
.. left him. He was inconsolable, an
- having a suspicion that she had go1
y to Melbourne, he sailed for Australi
-. But he failed to find his wife theI
and searching for a living he drift
=, to the Westralian gold fields, Thel
!, after many months of apparent
hopeless labor, he met with succe.
and having stayed long enough toco
-, solidate his good fortune event ba
.ha to Melbourne, where he rapidly ma
:, fortune.
In the meantime he had vainly {
'"' vertised in all parts of the world
~" his wife. lie returned to England a
10 searched in every direction. FIR
'!'' England he came to America, and
''n searched both north and sou
al, From here he went to South Afr.
III" through every district in which
""' English tongue was spoken. But
."i' where could he find a trace of
NY woman, and only after eightyears
cessant search he came to the con
Il sion his wife must be dead.
s!e A young French politician
SIN possessed a considerable fortune
even in love with a lady he saw at a I
u picture gallery. Judging by app
'su ances and one or two sentences
Id overheard her utter, however,
d guessed she was the daughter c
anu Frenchman holding a good pos
under the government.
g. lie searched Paris for her, emf
ing private inquiry agents to 6
'atali' him, but all they were abletodiso
was that she had left Paris few
o. later.
sting Spies were sent out all over FIR
Seap- but the lady was not found.
seem Finally. after more than two
these Of weary travel and patient lab
d the found the lady in Madagascar,
crease her father was a military o.
i san Whether it never struck this
ler!ck ceptiblc gentleman that the
ted to might be already married, it
! were possible to say. But it chance