Widnes Examiner. — 1884-03-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ELOPEMENT OF A PUBLICAN'S WIFE IVITII A LODGER. THE RUNAWAY COUPLE AT ELBLESTOWN.  The details of an elopement. tinged with the shade of the. romantic, have recently been disclosed in Earlestown, and, the affair has formed the chief topic of conversation among those resident in the immediate locality. On S..turdav night a middle-aged man, who said he hailed frton Luddendenfoet, Yorkshire, applied to the Earlestown police offic.ers to assist him in tracing the whereabouts of his wife, who, he stated, had deserted him and run away with another man who lodged with him He had a photograph of the missing "fair one" in his possession, and on its being exhibited to P.C. Lloyd, that officer iinneediately recognised it as the portrait of a woman residing with a certain driver as his wife. Owing to the lateness of the hour, however, the constable advised the deserted husband" to s-ek lodgings in the town for the night, as no doubt on the following morning he would be eb'e to let him have a proper view of bis missing wife. The man agreed, and on the following day be turned up at the time arranged. The constable Rotordingly led him to a certain cottage in a row not far from the Earlestown railway station, and knocked at the r'e r, while the Yorkshireman stood a abort distancl away. - On the door being opened the officer was cordially invi-ed inside, but he beckoned the Yorkshireman, who accordingly advanced, and on reaching the door he found himself confronted with his long loot wire, who had in her arms a stepping infant daughter, whom the lierkshireman had not previously numbered among hie family. Whether the scene was. affecting and impressive, or whether it was of a violent and stormy character, it is not needfu to relate, but it may be. added that the affair will probably have a sequel in the Divorce Court. the " hipbaud " having exoreseed his determination to seek a divorce. It appears that about two years. ago the husband kept a public-house in Yorkshire, and a nib driver Came to lodge thereat. In course of time an intimacy sprang up between the publican's wife and lodger,. and the result. WAS that they elopeditogether. all trace of the missing couple was lost from that time up to the present, when the publicau on hie way to S.iureport on buainess matters happened to stop at Earlestown, and while there showed a photograph of his wife to the police, which led to the discovery of the runaway couple.  RAT'S COMPOr'SD, for Colds 111:141 Coughs. Bold trougkeut the world. Is lid, 28 Ad A report which has been prepared xul s pbya e tpr ;gco:al 01 disapproval tniht Be tn only eltyeo of Liverpool steamshipowners lf of Mr. Chamberlain's Merchant Snipping Sad. featere a f the measure which; seemed to c.)m the committee is the right of appeal from the decisions of the Wrack Commissioners.  Early os Wednesday morning, as a Woodside ferry cls4ameres.iYntewitcho di zenr awl ihthu nad Br eidicis goer., steamer was cr •asingsbthee wp aastseern.grer russ to ,ntelaa, tap a ?i,, eu gaged in towtn, flats Bath vessels were seriously damaged ahout the bsw, itheie the impact occurred, but neither was disabled, and after drifting for BOMe time they proceeded on their respect ve courses. Great. ' alarm was naturally caused among the passengers, bat all were landed in safety. A young " rou-rh-," rimed Thomas Lawson, was on Wednesday committed to prison for two months by the Bootla magistrates for wounding a Russian sailor earned Koskalo. The prisoner make a violent attack upon the prosecator and some other foreigners as they were leaving a poblic-house. No the slightest provocation had been given, bat Lawson beat Koskalo with a belt which had a heavy buckle, and inflicted two serious wounds upon his bead. Two youths in the prisoner's company were arrested. but were discharged for want of direct evidence At the Wednesbury Police Court, on Tuesday. Jamelk , Rfd; ageo s, xt,r, a labourer, and coalseller, was remanded on charges of attempting to murder his wife, who was unable to appear, and attempting to commit suicide. He went , il 0 TVG on Monday night after a debauch 4-atimding over a , fortniaht, and which he had maintained with money obi tamed upon a horse which his son had bought for him, and, . apparently without any direct provocatien, threatened to cut . his wife's head off, at the same time severely wounding leer en the left side of neck with a shoemaker's knife. - Being separated from her, he went into t.,e street, and . was hacking at his own thrind whoa neighbours restrained him,