Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1913 — ERRING SPOUSE BACK [ARTICLE]

ERRING SPOUSE BACK

Runaway Husband Is Pursued by New Jersey Minister. Jiloped With Pastor's Daughter and la Captured at Newark—Wife Forgives Hlii) but Boss Doesn’t Bee It That Way.' Pedericktowß, N. J. —William 8. Murphy, the young bank cashier who left his wife and disappeared at the same time that Miss Polly Archer, a nineteen-year-old school-teacher and minister’s daughter, departed from town, has returned. His wife, who had located him in the northern part-of New York state after a long search, met hlmrat Newark asd took him to their home, where they told their friends that he had been forgiven and was going to start life over again. Miss Archer didn’t come back. After she vanished, two months ago, hex father, Rev. George D. Archer of the Methodist Episcopal church, requested & transfer, and was sent to Crozlerville, Pa. It is Bald that Miss Polly has joined him there. Neither Murphy nor his wife would give any of the details- of how he was found or how the reconciliation was brought about, but it was learned that the minister had a good deal to do with the finding of his daughter and the young cashier. They both dropped out of sight on the same afternoon. Mrs. Murphy had an appointment to go to a theater in Philadelphia with her husband and was to meet him at the ferry house in Philadelphia. After waiting a couple of hours she returned home to find that Miss Archer was missing, too. The cashier and the school-teacher had been seen together about Pedericktown and the neighboring villages. Mrs. Murphy, with an uncle, broke open a trunk of her husband’s and found in it a lot of love letters which the minister's daughter had written The subject of divorce was mentioned in each. - There was no trace of the whereabouts of either and it wasn’t known positively whether or not they were together. Mr. Archer enlisted the aid of hjs friend, Rev. Dr. George P. Dougherty of "Newark, and in some way the latter learned that Murphy had been seen in Rochester.

Then, about ten days ago, Mr. Ar cher received a long, pathetic letter from Polly begging forgiveness and asking his permission to come home. He .consented to take her baek and Murphy and the girl were met in New York by Doctor Dougherty and her father. He presumably escorted Polly to his new home in Crozierville, while his fellow-clergyman took charge of Murphy and conducted him over to Newark, where the runaway husband was quartered in the Y. M. O. A, building. Murphy, it is said, made a clean breast of the whole affair and asked Doctor Dougherty to try to arrange matters so that his wife would forgive him and take him back to their home. The Newark minister did this and Mrs. Murphy said she would give her husband another chance. The young man is out of a.job. The bank officials filled his place soon after he dropped out of sight, and they say they do not want him back.