Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — About Barney Hopkins’ Side Partner. [ARTICLE]

About Barney Hopkins’ Side Partner.

The female person with whom the late but not greatly lamented Barney Hopkins made his spectacular elopement from Remington, to be followed not long aftei by his still more spectacular, but unaoconpanied departure for the other side of Jjrdin, by the Wabash river rjut* l . was forme ly a resident of Rtn^selae’; and had her appropriate domicile in the then famed ‘ Smoky Row.” .Sin o-me fromßemington heie, and wopt by the name of Mrs. Blood t-foer that name of a young man who negotiated fc r her house, and was a frequerA visitor there if. aLd to whom she may or may n t have bean married. They went back to Remington and it whs Lorn there that the and H pkias eloped to Monti cello. They were bo'h jailed but Blood dug up enough to get the woman out, and she returned to Remington. But the refused to return to B oid and rented a h use and settled herself therein. The good people of the town however began to look vary much askance at her supposed occupation and she wfb paisuaded to leave the town, and is now said Jo be in Peoria, 111,