The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-22
COULD NOT SHAKE HER.
Deacon and Young Woman Companion
Pursued by Formers Wife.

New York. Aug. ga portly. vel
dressed man of almost patriarcha
age, boarded a ferryboat at Hoboker
yesterday proudly escorting a good
looking young woman in white. He
seemed at peace with the world and
prepared for a pleasant outing. The
couple were chatting cordially wher
a handsome, richly attired matror
wearing diamonds stalked UP to them
The boat by that time was half way
to New York. The cabin was
thronged.
$50 this is you, is it?" the matron
demanded. hating in front of the pa
triarch and his companion and survey
ing them with disdain.
The man ducked his head, the young
woman shrank from the other.
This is my husband, William M:
Abbott-the good Deacon ABBOTT,
said the woman with diamonds. point
ing out the man to those around
Everybody at once sat up and TOOK
notice.
please go away and let me alone, y
pleaded the deacon"
NO. sir; I'm going to follow you and
your friend around all day and see
where you CO." returned Mrs. ADDott-
She Kept on the job.
By the time the boat reached Twen-
ty-third street 1t was nofsed all ABOUT
the cabin that the good Deacon Abbott
was aboard with woman ana that ms
wife was on the trail As the crowo
filed off the ferry everybody took
good look at the stout old gentleman
Abbott and the young woman with
him hurried off the pier. closely tol5
lowed by Mrs. Abbott They jumped
on a car. So did she. and away all
three went uptown on the Belt line
Mrs. Abbott explaining the SITUATION
to the passengers. who took a deep IN
terest in the situation.
At Forty-second street Abbott and
the Young woman alighted and maze
a dash for the Sandy Hook pier. Mrs
Abbott sprinted right behind
There was quite a thrOng on the pier
and Abbott and his companion tried to
lose themselves in it. but could not
shake off their pursuer. During the
half hour wait for the boat MIS- 40
bolt took her stand near her husband
and freely circulated a lot of informa-
ton about him. so that people began
to walk around and around the veneer
able gentleman. cycling him cur1ously.
At Atlantic Highlands the deacons
tour resolved itself into a chase down
the pier. and then a chase up the pier,
and finally a chase to the next boat
back
on the return trip Mrs. Abbott kept
her eagle eye fixed on the couple. To |
a man who asked him what the trou- |
BILE was, Abbott said:
This young woman with me is Miss |
Agnes Hemphill. my daughter by a
to get divorce from me. but l VIII
not give her a chance; so she Is nag
cling me"
Sympathy From One Man.
When the boat docked at Albany
street Abbott, Miss Hemphill and Mrs.
Abbott flew off in bunch, followed
by several hundred persons. who had
gathered the salient points in the dea-
cons history on the way up the bay.
Hes having a grand day OFF,
ion't think, said another stout, old
person of about the same age. fixing
sympathetic eye on the deacon.
At last accounts Mrs. Abbott was
till in hot pursuit toward Harlem.
William NJ. Abbott is in the trans
oortation business at No. 122 River
street, Hoboken. In 1901, his wife,
who married him in 1896, sued him
lenied the charge and said his wife
at on the side of the bed one night
md kept him awake by poking an un-
,rella in his ribs Before the suit
anne to trial the couple made up and
vent on second honeymoon.
Wearied of 'Nagging."
In 1905 he asked Vice Chancellor
'evens in Jersey City to issue an in
JUNCTION restraining his wife from nag
ing him. The jurist said a woman's
ongue could not be silenced that way s
nut he gave Abbott an order on Mrs.
Abbott requiring her to show cause {
Why she should not quit the alleged
tagging.
Early this year Mrs Abbott began | s
second action for separation. She ]
lleged she had found him in the COM $
ANY of one Agnes Hemphill. Also
he said she found a letter in his
rocket signed Helen.
Abbott is said to be a deacon in the
first Reformed Presbyterian church
n west Twelfth street. 7