The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-10-27
DIDN'T HAVE QUITE so
MUCH ON ARRIVAL HOME
The Escapade Of MassiIIon Man
That Was Good While II
Lasted.
OUTRAGED HUSBAND OBJECTED
Gay Lothario Gathered In by Canton
Police, on Complaint Of
His Wife.

HIS wire.
William H. Scott, one-armed, pros
perous-looking farmer of about As years
of age, is the victim of pretty ro-
nance, and as a result came to grief
last evening upon his arrival in Can
ton, being forced to spend the night at
the city prison.
Scott halls from Massillon, having
lived out of the city short distance
ON the Pigeon run road. There, in the
quiet country, he and his wife seemed
to enjoy life in the way only a virtuous
man and wife can. But, alas! there
came the woman to tempt, and, as man
always has done since the fall of Adam,
the charms of the fair one were too
much. He fell.
Last Thursday, Scott, together with
Mrs. Homer STAINS, who plays the part
of Eve in this drama, hied themselves
OF and were not heard from until they
reach far away Canal Dover. They were
out for good time, probably for what
q younger man and woman would call
q lark, which was suddenly brought TO
an end when the husband Of Mrs. STAINS
appeared on the scene and disputed the
right with Scott to share the woman's
charms They had money, and money
a-plenty; nothing in the city came too
high for Scottie; it was hard for the
woman to leave her new-found friend
with the nice big yellow bills to spend.
However, the husbands pleas availed,
and the wife returned to Massillon with
her lawfully welded husband. The
villain was foiled and was left alone to
enjoy his bundle of long green.
Mrs. Scott had been on the lookout
in a quiet way for her missing husband
since his disappearance. but not until
last evening was the absent man locat-
ed, when, at 1890 o'clock, he was
brought into the police station by Chief
McCloud and Officer Wielandt. Think
of husband deserting his wife, and at
the same time taking all the spare
change with him, for 1t Is claimed
that Scott started out with $4,000 in his
trousers pocket! The money the wife
did miss, as 1t was the result of her
thrift as we'll as that of the husband.
and it did not seem fair that another
woman should enjoy the fruit of so
many years hard toll At any rate,
Scottie had not succeeded in blowing in
the entire "wad."
When searched by the officer $3,410,
all In nice, new, crisp bills, we're found
In Scotts pockets. What became of
the balance? That is what the man s
unhappy wife would like to know.
Could the runaway couple have spent
It in Canal Dover? Surely not, unless
they had bought house and lot, and
that they did not do, as they had not
sufficient time to set up housekeeping
before the angry husband appeared on
the scene. Twenty-six hundred dollars
Is a nice sum of money to get rid Of,
even when out on little lark, and
when money was no object. Still, a
man does not throw dollars at the
birds.
Mrs. Homer STAINS, according to sew
eral well-informed Massillon people,
was formerly Miss Kit Davenport and
has been known in and about Massillon
for some time. Her reputation, so 1t
Is said, was not one that would be en-
We'd by many women. Her past life in
Massillon, they say, was such that the
elopement with the man Scott was not
thought to be beyond her. The entice-
ments of $4,000 roll of bills was too
strong for her frail nature to resist
That much money was not flashed very
often on Clay street, where Kit for
merly lived before marrying STAINS.
The warrant causing the arrest of
Scott was made out, 1t seems, at the
request of Mrs. Scott, in which tho
charge of adultery is said to have been
placed against the man. However,
Scott when seen by the News report
er did not volunteer any information
as to the charge he was held upon.
When pressed for information in re-
gard to the elopement and to the
cause of the arrest. Scottie sat with
his feet propped up on the table at pc.
lice headquarters, and not q word
would he utter. His detention did not
seem to worry him in the least as he
sat in front of the table upon which
rested the thick heavy dishes out Of
which he had partaken his midnight
lunch. Generally a man with a full
stomach and a full pocketbook is in
talkatiye mood, but not SO with
Scott. .-.a
Great secrecy has been maintained
about the disappearance OF Scott. the
wife being unwilling to pour her trou-
bles In gossipy ears. Even the officers
were reluctant to say much concerning
the case, which is only now partially
solved, the main question being, What