Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — ONE RUNAWAY REVEALS ANOTHER. [ARTICLE]

ONE RUNAWAY REVEALS ANOTHER.

A runaway iu town on Sept. 22, resulted iq the discovery of a runaway wife, with a big roll of money, by her derserted husband. The team belonged to Ed Oliver, a professional horse-trader who was living on the Link Parks faim in Milroy tp. The woman who passed as Mrs. Oliver had the runaway, she having got out to adjust something about the harness, when the horses lit out without her. And thereby became revealed the fact that last July she herself had lit out without her husband, and whose name is Charles Raymond, and whose home is in Danville, 111, where he is a prosperous contractor and builder.

It seems that when she turned up missing in July, Oliver was missing also, and it was surmised they had gone away together. Some $1,500 of Raymond’s money was missing also and besides .that she had sold off all the property and furniture she could, at any kind of prices, and had in all considerably more than the $1,500. It was supposed she had gone with Oliver, but their whereabouts were not known. However when she had the runaway and the fact was reported in this paper, some of its several readers in Danville communicated the facts to Mr. Raymond and last Thursday he appeared here looking for the missing parties and soon had them located By threatening to begin criminal proceedings he got back both his wife and his $1,500, the latter mostly in chattie mortgages, on horses and other property Oliver had bought and sold to other parties. Mrs. Raymond admitted she was a fool for leaving her husband, and said she didn’t know why she did it. They have been married 17 years but have no children. Oliver is reported to have a wife and children in Washington state, whom he is said to have deserted and left in destitute circumstances.