Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — For What It’s Worth [ARTICLE]

For What It’s Worth

)’ The below quoted clipping from the Lafayette <fririe.r of' Tuesday, is given for what it’s worth, headlines and all. The pathetic allusion to the “Heart broken husband and unfortunate children” is especially touching: A I'ALLESWOIIAX The Rensselaer J*'**® 11!ld Mother Who Eloped With a Negro an inmate of a , Lafayette Bagnio. , Courier readers will recall the sens-a-tisual elopement of Mrs. Dr. Hutton, of Rensselaer, last August, with a neirre preacher, and the intense excitement it created at Rensselaer where she lived and belonged to one of the first families. The papers all over the country were luil of the scandal and the particulars of the grief of her heart-broken husband and unfortunate children. After a time, interest in the case subsided, and the affair was presently forgotten. The woman disappeared and was almost forgotten, when it transpires that she has been an inmate of Flora Wilcox’s South Fifth street bagnio fcr the past week. Friday night, accompanied by another inmate; she folded her tent and went over to Indianapolis. Her degradation is a sad warning to those who do not realize the terrible truth iff the aphorism—‘‘the wages of sin is death.” Verily, a "virtuous woman is a Crown to her husband, but she that maketh him ashamei is as rottenness to his bones.”