The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-17
QUEER STATEMENT MADE BY 4 WOMAN Claims Man Forced Her to
 Marry Him BOTH ALREADY MARRIED D Sensational Developments Resulting From Strange Case of Ohio
 Couple Who Came to Bir-
 mInshom to Marry.


 point of a pistol.
 The Rev. l. D. Steele performed the ceremony on the afternoon of December 20, according to the courts records, the same day that the marriage license vas issued. Dr. Steele was out of the city yesterday and 1t was impossible to get any statement concerning the marriage. It seems that Johnston's brother owns
 some large mines in Ono and that Henry A. Johnston was manager of them He lived in Coshocton but boarded during the week in Ed. Shuman's house. where he became infatuated with Shuman's wife and made love to her. He begged her to elope with him. He packed her clothing
 with his and followed her and demanded that she elope with him.
 Mrs. Shuman returned to her home and
 discovered for the first time that her clothing was gone She started after Johnston to recover 1t, and her exper- fences are best told in her own words, as printed in the Coshocton Age. as fol- lows:
 Johnston had insinuated himself upon
 me and I went to Cleveland. "I went back to Conesville, and then
 learned that he had taken my clothes. I told Ed that Johnston was in Cleveland and he told me to go after the clothes and get them I found Johnston there and then he showed a gun at me and
 said if I wanted the clothes I had to go to Dennison with him to get them.
 Coerced Her.
 "He coerced me into going, but they were not there. Then we went to Zanes- vile on the same mission, and then to Cincinnati, where we were three days. He had his eye constantly and I couldn't get away, even to warn the police. Then we went to Birmingham Ala, and there he took me around to preachers house, Rev. MT Steele, not Rev. Parker, as he says, and at the gate he pulled out the gun and swore he'd kill me if I spoiled the thing before the preacher. We were married and staid in Bir- mingham several days. Twice I tried to escape. The first time I took $10o out of his grip when he was out of the room and fled to the Union station, bought my ticket and was waiting for the train when he rushed in, took my ticket and cashed it. That was Monday. Thursday l made another attempt and with the aid of an old coored woman I got awhy and came back to Conesville I was fearfully afraid of the man. I love my husband and children and was away from them because I couldn't help myself Her Letters. ..She showed letters that she had written her husband from Cleveland saying she was going to Dennison to get her clothes, and another from Birmingham, December 26. saying she was trying to get away and would be home as soon as she could escape The letter is filled with endear- ing terms and says kiss our darling children, and tell them mamma loves them and loves their papa
 The Coshocton Age continues the narra- tive as follows:
 Mrs. Shuman says. that Mrs. Johnston she thinks knew all along the things her husband was doing and seemed to ae- quiesce in them all.
 "she has letters written her-about one a day after she left Birmingham-and in them Johnston calls her my dear wife and subscribes himself your loving hus- band
 From the reports which have reached Birmingham, Johnston is a very absent minded fellow, and he is also determined to get even with Albert Shuman, a broth er-in-law of the woman he married here. According to the information Albert Shu-
 man tried to induce his brother Ed. to hot Tnh When he learned this Johnston became enraged and swore vengeance. He went to the office of the Zanesville Times Re- eorder and paid for the following adver- tisement which, with the statement be- low it, appeared in that paper on last Saturday:
 WANTED--Everyon to know that will give a reward for any information concerning the whereabouts of Orley
 Berel Shuman, wife of Albert Shuman. Conesville, O., who eloped from Cleve-
 land with one Johnston and went to Birmingham, Ala. They were married by
 Rev. Parker of that city. Address Albert Shuman, Conesville, o.
 "The above is paid advertisement left at this office Thursday by Alfred Shu- man. The deserted husband does not care to get back his wife but is possessed with desire to prosecute for alleged bigamy. He will make every effort to locate her, and has adopted newspaper advertising as the most successful method" Alfred Shuman gives the following in- terview in the Coshocton Daily Age: Tt was lightning from a clear sky to me" he said, for my wife and I are having no trouble nor do we expect to. The use of my name in the affair is unwarrantabe. and simply malicious bit of revenge for fanciei wrong. There is a long story behind it all A Long Story. Henry A. Johnson, who lives in Co., shocton, was until last December su- perintendent of the Arnold mine, which Is owned by his brothers, whose offices are in Columbus. He remained in Cones- vile during the week and went to Co., shocton Sundays, boarding during the week with my brother Ed He became attentive to my brothers wife. the Orley Berel Shuman mentioned in the Zanes- vile papers, and forced his attentions on her. In fact he asked her to elope with him.
 What follows is her own story of the