The Runaway Wife and the Saloon-Keeper's Fury

The news of a runaway wife at Newcastle spread around through that little town like wildfire. Early in the morning, an excited Frenchman, one of the miners there, was seen charging furiously about, anxious to tell everyone he met of how his wife had 'run away with another man.' After going the rounds of all the saloons, and fortifying himself with whiskey, he set out for Seattle, fearing they had left on the steamer Dakota. He arrived here on Sunday afternoon, and immediately set up a diligent search for his wife and the fellow upon whom he had sworn to wreak dire vengeance.

The wife, however, arrived here ahead of him at 10 o'clock on the ferry from Newcastle. The fellow who was accused of running away with her was in her company, but it proved to be a very different situation than an elopement. Upon his arrival here, the young fellow went to a hotel, and left yesterday morning on the North Pacific for Victoria. The wife was, at her request, taken to an up-town residence where she wished to stop with a family with whom she was acquainted.

The stage driver met the woman and the man at the Landing, upon their arrival on the ferry boat from Newcastle. The woman appeared half-distracted. She was without a shawl or bonnet—just as she had fled from her house early that morning—and stated that she had been obliged to flee for her life, as her husband had attempted to kill her. She begged the stage driver to bring her to this city, which he did. She appears to be a respectable, sensible, and intelligent woman, and has the sympathy of many. Her husband has since found her and has tried to effect a reconciliation.