The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-12
WIFE'S VAIN SEARCH FOR MISS
IN GHUSBAND.
He LEFT TWO YEARS AGO
C. e.. MarceIIis Leaves tc Visit Dis
tant Sheep Camp and Never
Returns.
From Tuesdays Danny Gazette.

For yer two years G. E. Marcellis,
once a prosperous rancher and sheep
owner neal Lewistown, has been
mourned as one dead by his faithful
wife, who during that time has been
torn by conflicting emotions of al
ternate hope and fear. The story told
by the lady is touching in it's pathos
and her devotion to the man who
seemingly has deliberately abandoned
pi4er appeals to all to whom she has
applied for assistance and advice.
Mrs. Marcellis arrived in the city
last night and Immediately placed her
self in communication with the diff
ferent peace officers whom she be-
sought to help her find her husband.
She said that two years ago last Octo-
Der her husband had left her and
since then she had heard of him only
once, about a year ago, when he was
at Lodge Grass, where he was seen
by a man who knew hin. Since then
all attempts on her part to find trace
OF him have~been f%ruitless.
She declares that their married life
had always been exceptionally happy,
not one cross or unkind word hav-
ing ever passed between her and her
husband. The last time she eve saw
him was when m morning he hitch
ed up a team and said that he "a
going to a sheep camp at some dis
tance. Instead of going to the camp
he continued On a different road and
disappeared as completely as though
the earth had opened and received
him. After a reasonable time had
elapsed and he failed to return, Mrs.
Marcellis says she began writing to
the sheriffs of the different counties
of the state and also wrote to those
of the n%eighboring states. None of
them had seer the missing man,
neither did any of them seem to have
been able to obtain even the slightest
clue to his whereabouts.
When almost convinced that her
husband was dead, she received a let
ter from Lodge Grass informing her
that Marcellis had been there. AT
once she wrote to her. husband, but
never received a reply and does not
know whether her letters reached him
or whether he refused to answer
them. Evidently his stay in that
locality was short, for the man who
had written to her subsequently
wrote again to her and said he had
seen her husband only the one time
In speaking of her husbands
strange actions she expressed the feal
that h may have lost his mind anG
while wandering about the country
was arrested and placed in some in
sane asylum without being able tt
make known his identity or to com
he had no known, possible reason fol
doing as he did. The ranch he lief
comprises almost 1900 acres and il
' addition it was we'll stocked. 1t i!
true that it was covered by a mort
gage but only for a comparativel!
small amount and the resources a
command were ample to pay off al
indebtedness.
Since her desertion Mrs. Marcelli
has conducted the business left b,
her husband and has been LIBERAL.
assisted in many ways by some o
the business men and others of Lewis
town. She is finding the burden to-
heavy and may decide to settle IL,
the affairs left in her charge. Thi
morning she departed for the east
intending to go where their forme
home was, hoping she might be SUE
cessful in obtaining some trace Their
of her missing husband.