Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — NOVEL ELOPEMENT. [ARTICLE]

NOVEL ELOPEMENT.

The Wife of a Deputy Sheriff Releases a Highway Robber and Runs Away With Him. Quite a sensation was created at Little Falls, Minn., Thursday, by the discovery that Mrs. J. P. Sand, wife of the deputy sheriff, had taken her husband’s '-revolver, keys and 150, and, after liberating John Mitchell, sentenced at the late term of the District Court to the State Reformatory at St. Cloud, eloped with him. She was seen to board the midnight-train north, and it is supposed that he took the same train from the side opposite. The sheriff and deputy are in pursuit, but will probably not get Mitchell, as he is well acquainted with the Cass county woods. Mitchell was convicted of highway robbery, and now that he has even robbed the jailer of his wife’s affection aud also his money, he is looked upon as quite a novelty in the way of a crook. Mitchell is twenty old and the woman forty, and leaves a husband and three children, tho eldest about twenty.