The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-06
Double RUNAWAY
EXC|TE5 T I'LL TON
Two Married Men and Two Mar
ried Women Elope to
Norfolk.
DESTITUTE WIVES LEFT HERE.
Case Reported to Police, and
Complainants Sent to Court
Official.

Laying aside their sclf-respect, two
married men eoped with two married
women from Fulton yesterday morn
ing, and as result two other hus-
bands are distracted, two wives desti-
tute, and three small children remain
to grow up in disgrace. Though once
prevented, the two couples left their
homes Thursday afternoon. departing
from the city yesterday morning, sup
posedly for Petersburg, thence for
Norfolk The police have been noti-
fled of the affair, and to-day the mat
ter will be formally placed in the
hands OF Commonwealth's Attorney
Folkes by at least one of the wives,
who so. declared her intention last
night.
One Swcnrs Vengeance.
While one of the deserted husbands
is disconsolate. the other. swears that
the woman with whom he had lived
for nearly seven years shall never
are left absolutely penniless. One. is
a frail consrmptive, and has on her
hands ten-months-ol baby. She. was
completely Frustrated by the sudden
blow, but It was said that she is will
ing to forgive and to forget, il her
husband will return.
One Of the delinquent husbands was
an employc OF the Virginia Passenger
duu IOWcl Company, LIE OllIeI IuIl
road empioye. Both drew their sala ,
ries. the meeting place was arranged
for the four. and they left their homes
Thursday evening. The mother OF one
in the afternoon, and prevented her
from leaving at the time. Later. she
managed To slip away. Her husband
spent. Thursday night in 'fruitlcss
search.
One of the deserted wives lives on
East Main Street. Wien seen last
night she said that she had been mar
ried about eighteen months and de-
clared that her married life had been
happy and without fault. Now. she Is
comprehend the blow which had fallen
on her she laughed frequently, and
then lapsed into a fearless silence.
want to be revenged. Ny husband de-
serted me and gave UP good posi-
ton Now he may oe forced to dig
bitches, and It would g:ve me pleasure
to see him shaving in the sun
The other wife lives in Fulton. Her
woe was inexpressi3,e. and she beg
ged that the affair might not be made
public. She is frail and Is said to be
stricken with tuberculosis. She is pen
niless. with a ten-monrils-old baby to
support. The husband of the woman
with whom her own husband eloped,
lives Just across the street.
yes. 1t is true" he said. "A1y wife
has deserted me and our fve-year-old
daughter" He exhibited the little
ones cot in silence. I've taken her
to my mother.
II shall enter suit for divorce She
shall never enter my doors again. We
lived happily together for seven years
and Yesterday 'morning she kissed me
good-by rs fondly as ever"
He is employed by the Kentucky To-
bacco Company.
The other deserted husband Occur
pied the rooms just above. but he had
gone to the home of his mother-in-
law, with his baby. He was out when
the reporter called, and his mother
in-law turned the latter from her
doors.
All Fulton is excited over the af-
fair. and it was the gossip of every
street corner. banded about from door
tc door as the sensation OF the hour
AS the two couples had, 1t is believed
only about $40 between them. they
cannot travel far. before exhausting
their small supply of funds.