The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-27
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Thinking g Her Husband Dead a Lady
% Marries Another Han.
CURIOUS STORY OF wEoLocK
TIC Husband NIystcriously Disap.
pearcd Three years Ago. and
~ His Remains found in the
Woods Inst Week.
The following dispatch published
edIn The State on Tuesday, 18th In
'stant, caused considcra BILE comment
'inlgolumbia and elsewhcre:
IA human skeleton was found in an
Isolated spot in a pasture six miles
4frsm Wilmington, near the coast, and
identified, as a result Of an investiga-
tioh by the coroner Wednesday, ais
that or W. w. Young, a white car
penteT 80 years old, who disappeared
from his home in this city May 3,
1900. The cause of the mans death
is unknown and the Investigation is
being pursued. Members Of his fami-
ly say they advertised for the man
and made diligent search, at last Civ
Ing 2Sup hope Of finding him. Young
has q wife and two children in Colum-
bia, s.. g., Mrs. Young having married
q railroad employe named Roberts
after the first husbands disappear
ancet;".'
OElast Thursday morning tho State
published the following sequel to the
aLoYe dispatch:
The Mrs. Young referred to is the
widow OF the late Mr.. VIM. j.
Roberts. Car inspector in the employ
of the Southern railway, who was kill
cd a few weeks ago by being run over
in the Atlantic Coast Line yards. She
married Mr.. Roberts,. believing her
first husband was dead, no word hav-
ing been heard Of him since May, 1900.
The]t dispatch from Wilmington was
the first information she has had con-
cerning him since that time.
Mis-. Young, or rather Mrs. Roberts,
livcSSat 929 Oak Street in the Shannon
district, and when seen Wednesday
by a:State reporter gave the details of
herHfsG husbands strange disappear
ance.aS
In(the year 1890 Young, Il carpcn-
ter by trade and Il native Of Camden,
married a Miss Kairby, the daughter
Of az farmer living in that county.
'ThisiS the present Mrs. Roberts.
They made their. home in this city
for. a short. period Of time, leaving it
to gOsto Parksville, and thence to
Augusta. After two years residence
the, couple went to Wilmington, N.
c. !.
During y the period of their life in
ic sfuiXi Xi''s,,. = "a. :. !, o.: :ffi.. broke
down slsSiie was able to work at his
trade only at intervals. He grew no
better and gradually his mind became
affected. At the end Of seven years
Mrn. Young decided to leave Whining
ton with her two children and return
to this city to make her home with her
father. The little family was then in
very reduced circumstances and the
plan was practically forced to con-
clusion by this dire necessity. Young,
who was then almost totally incapaci-
tated for work, was left with his sis
ters in Wilmington in the hope that
he might recover.
Mrs. Young was In constant commu-
nication with his sisters from time
she left North Carolina in November,
1899, but her husbands mental condi-
tion did not improve. lie grew moody
and took long walks alone if not
watched. At times far out in the
forests he would fall to the ground in
the rigors Of an cpileptic tit and in
his paroxySmS intlict personal injuries
upon himself. Once or twice he was
found lying across his mothers grave
in Bellevue cemctry.
Finally it was decided that he
should be sent to the North Carolina
State Hospital for the Insane and a
medical board was appointed by the
authorities to examine him as to his
sanity. But on the day previous to
the examination Young mysteriously
disappeared and nothing has ever 'ecn
heard of him until the grucsome dis
covcry on Monday last of his grinning
skeleton lying in the dark woods near
the mouth Of the Cape Fear river
After Young was lost to sightcvery
attempt was made to ascertain Ills
whereabouts. The country for miles
around Wilmington was searched and
advertisements Offering rewards in
serted In the newspapers Of the State.
His fate remained a mystery, through
it was practically concluded that he
had fallen, in one OF his pcrambula-
tions, into the Cape Fear river and
had been drowned. His life was in
surcd and his widow kept up the pre-
miums for many months, expecting
that his body would be recovered. For
this purpose she used In part the re-
ceiptS from the sale Of his tool chest.
When all hope had been abandoned
the policy was allowed to lapse.
Mrs. Young has now two children 9
and years old respectively. born to
her by her first husband. On Feb
ruary 8, 1902, she married Mr..
Roberts, firmly believing at the time
that her first husband was dead. Ii
is a question as to whether his death
had occurred at the time, but the pro.
liabilities are that it had.
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