Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-06-19
FINDS WIFE WHOM
he THOUGHT DEAD
IN AN A[MSH0USE
kansan Left Woman In Asylum,
Heard She Died and Did
Not Return to In
yestigate.
PAIR HAPPILY REUNITED
". P. Johns, Rich, Seeking to
Remove Body, Finds Spouse
Still Living and Takes
Her Home.
PAIR HAPPILY REUNITED

Kansas City. Kan. June ia
strange little romance with all the ele-
ments of the old time melodrama was
enacted at the Wyandotte county poor
farm, at Horanif, when William Z;
Johns drove up in a big motor car and
clasped In his arms the wife he had
believed was dead.
For several years the quiet, little
and sad faced woman had lived at the
farm She was the one always called
upon to nurse the sick She was SO
patient and her touch so gentle: she
always knew when and how to do the
Fight thing, and was so motherly about
1t. No one knew more about her than
that her name was Elizabeth; her age
b3.
..My story doesn't interest anyone"
she would say.
How They Got Separated.
But, fortunately for her the records
story and through them two persons
were made happy. Years ago William
p. Johns and his wife, Elizabeth, lived
on farm in Wyandotte county. Mrs.
Johns mind became affected and she
was sent to the state hospital, at To-
peka. Several years later she was
discharged as cured No one carle to
claim her. She found her husban had
sold his farm and gone west. She
could find no trace OF him. Worry
caused a return OF her old ma,ady and
She was sent to the Grandview sana-
torium at the expense of the G lnty.
In a few months she recovered. Pen
niless and alone she was sent u the
poor farm That was three years ago.
A few days ago fine appe ring,
gray haired man with a Diamond in
his shirt front another in a rlng,
drove his motorcar up to the OIL. of
U. S. Sartin. county auditor from
there he drove to the office of John
p. Sims, probate judge. He had just
come from Topeka. and from the pro-
bate judges office the trail led hi IL to
'Grandview sanatorium. A look at the
record. books there, then the speed
limit to Horam.f was broken. The
rnotorcar dashed up to the main build 4
z Ing at the poor farm. ring at the
bell. and the door was opened by the
little, white haired woman.
will"
Elizabeth
Each Thought Other Dead.
The little white haired woman fell
sobbing into the arms of the husband
she hadn't seen for 16 years. He had
supposed she was dead. She had be-
lieved him dead. She gathered her few
little belongings. stepped into the ear
and was whirled away to a big farm
house across the line in Leayenworth
county, there to be surrounded by
0NcIy colllLoFl SHe Couiu crave.
When Johns sold his farm and went
west, he went into the mines The
money from his farm he had invested
wisely in mining stocks. Then he
heard his wife had died. Prosperity
continued to follow in his footsteps.
Then, with enough and more money
than he needed, he longed to get back
to the country. He bought fine stock
farm in Leavenworth county. After
settling down, he went to Topeka to
have the body of the wife he supposed
dead brought to the farm for burial.
There he learned that his wife had
not died. but had been discharged as
cured. He hurried to Kansas City.
Kan, only to learn that she had been
sent TO Grandyiew, and from there to
the poor house, where he found her