The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-25
SAYS HUSBAND
DESERTED HER
24.Year-OId Mrs. Gaffney
Gets Warrant
HER SEVEN YEARS OF MARRIED
LIFE HAVE BEEN FULL OF
TROUBLE.

street, an Erie Railroad section
hand, deserted his wife and two
small children Saturday night, Sept.
20, after, it is said, squandering in
drink and riotous living all his
wife's money
Had it not been for the charity of
kind neighbors who sent them in
things to eat, and for the liberality
of st. Johns R. c. church, which
donated them ton of coal, Mrs.
Gaffney and her two small boys,
Francis, aged 3, and James, aged 4,
would have Jared badly.
1t was a pitiful story that the de-
serted wife told a reporter last Fri
young woman only twenty-four years
old, but her seven years of married
life have been full of trouble.
met him alta ball one night.
! went with him for quite a while.
| always found he had a good repu-
tation. He made big wages. | used
to work in a factory. My father
kept a livery stable. We lived in
Port Richmond, Staten Island.
never knew he drank until we
were married six months, and then
he started. We often used to have
words all through his drink. He'd
have his money spent in a saloon
before he came home. My people
were always helping us. He always
claimed was jealous of him.
We used to five in Port Rich
mond where he worked in Burleys
ship yard. He deserted me there,
and | had a warrant out for him.
He wrote me if / came to Honesdale
he'd do all right. So / came here
last March. / sold my house down
there. He spent every cent l had.
He spent it for drink. He went
around sporting. l heard he used
to hire rigs and go around every
day sporting.
He used to tell me he was look
ing for work and at the same time
he was drinking. He used to be
away for weeks.
He was working on the Erie
Railroad. He earned $10.50 a
week He only, worked six weeks.
| was in the hospital seven weeks.
I've been in poor health. Only two
months ago / was operated on in the
State Hospital, Scranton. He de-
serted the children while l was in
the hospital so l had to come home.
He took the pledge for a year
before coming here, and promised
me he was going to do all right. He
came home Saturday night two
weeks ago. He has two weeks
pay coming to him, but the check
is made out in his name so | can't
get it.
6 He's crazy about the children.
That night he went he bought home
a bag of candy for the children. A
man came in that night and said
he was going to have Spencer after
him for something he did. 1t was
about eight o'clock. When he came,
my husband ran out.
Il have a warrant out for him
for desertion. He has brother in
an insane asylum. | don't think he
is really right in the head. He al
ways goes away without any reason.
heard he was in Long Island. /
was told he went down to work on a
on canal boats. When he was away
seven months before he was on
canal boat.
:" He has two or three different
kinds of work he can do. He can
drive rivets, chip iron, and he has
an application in for the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. He used to work for
the Wells Fargo Express Co. in New
York before the strike, when he was
away in August and came back in
March.
| was told he changed his name
that time. He had job as janitor
at a place in New York, where he
was called Frank Cavanaugh. He
took a d. & H. train to Scranton
when he left here.
We had to pull and drag for
the children ever since we came
here last March. 1t wasn't the right
thing for him to do.
He's got dark hair and brown
eyes. He's not very tall, and weighs
$50 pounds. He was noted for
good worker always. He Is clean
shaven, and has one mark on his
right cheek where he was kicked
one time, and a small scar on his
lip. He had on a blue coat, black
shoes, and wore a white shirt, blue
bow tie and derby hat.
My people were always helping
us. But they are mad now because
| went to live with him again last
March,"
1t was pitiful story Mrs. Gaff-
ney told, with her youngest boy,
bright fiaxen-haired chap nestled in
her arms and hugging her close
the neck, with a most woebe-
gone face, as though he feared his
mother would leave him as his faith
er had done. The older boy clung
to her skirts and did not seem to
mind 1t half so much as the little
fellow
One of the candidates for Office
this fall, who does not believe in let
ting his left hand know what his
right hand is doing, has sent her an
order on a nearby grocery store and
her immediate wants have been sup
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