The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-23

WENT OCTs
thleving, assault. and so forth, but did
you ever hear Of one being arrested
for eloping With a married woman ?
No? Well, that was one of my first
adventures. struck farmhouse one
day In Connecticut, and the farmers
wife gave me the best dinner | had
had in month. She was very inquis-
tive about life on the road, and she
gave me to understand that she was
not living happily with her husband.
He was away from home that day,
and before we were through talking
she announced that she proposed to
fee from home and become a dilapi-
dated gentlewoman. Yes, sir, she was
going TO take to the road and become
a tramp, and in my company at that,
and she was so determined that It
scared me. began to argue with her.
but she cut me short. She'd either
take to the road or jump down the
family well.
'"The only way out Of 1t for me was
70 promise TO wait for her at n GER
tain crossroads three miles away that
night. She would have given me all
her husbands spare clothing and
sum of money, but wouldn't take
them. didn't wait for her at the
crossroads, as agreed, but went on for
four miles farther and turned I'm un-
der a haystack. routed out at day
light just as she came along looking
ms L.
road arguing her husband and a con-
stable came along. and we were gath
cred In. The husband wanted to kill
me on the spot, and the constable
promised me thousand years in state
prison. The wife was taken back
home by force, and was run into jail
and afterward given q sentence of
ninety days. They were little doubt
full about the elopement charge, and
so they changed IL TO vagrancy. After
FIVE days in the coop found weak
spot In the wall and went out, and
over twenty other prisoners followed
me. think squared things.
Resennbied Another Man.
"In Pennsylvania, once upon a time,
motherly woman, the wife Of VII
lage carpenter, opened the kitchen door
to me and then yelled out Toni and
reeled back into a chair. My name
Isn't Tom, and it took me ten minutes
TO solve that puzzle. 1t appeared that
| closely resembled certain Tom to
whom she was engaged several years
before and who mysteriously dlsap.
peared. After waiting year for him
to show up she married the carpenter.
but was an unhappy woman. Say,
now, that woman must have been aw-
fully nearsighted and had something
wrong with her ears, or my resem-
blance to her lost Tom must have been
something marvellous. 1t was no use
for me to deny that was Tom. had
his look and voice and build, and, hay.
ing found me, she did not propose TO
let me go again. She was just set on
going on the tramp with me, and when
she went into hysterics over 1t could
think Of no other plan but to agree. !
was TO wait for her at a bridge over a
river five miles away, but l intended
to keep walking all night. See what a
trick luck played me.
"a farmer halted me before reach
ed the bridge and offered me a dollar
and a nights lodging to help him Kill
a fat steer. Next morning the wo-
man was picked up at the bridge,
where she had waited for hours, aud
soon thereafter l was a prisoner.
admitted nothing and denied nothing.
She was a woman, you see. They
didn't charge me with alienatlng the
wife's affections, but with firing a