July 1911
Elopers Flee
Babies Left Behind
Sheriff Fautz is tracking two elopers today. On complain that Mrs. Tillie Sterret, wife of A. J. Sterret of What Cheer, had eloped with James Brainerd, of that village, from the hope of the woman's uncle, the sheriff of Johnson ounty was put on the scent, as it was thought the pair came this way.
Relatives Hunt
Her brother Elmer Day, and her uncle, J. R. Griffith, of Lytle City, near Parnell, also came here today hunting the missing woman, who was visiting Mr. Griffith when she left home, driving away in an old buggy, behind a blind horse, to make unromantic features of a rather sensational case.
A sad feature of the case is that three children are left behind by the forgetful wife and mother. She is 26 and her "friend" is 25 and single. Strangely enough, when the woman went to her uncle's home, her brother, Jim, and her husband accompanied her. The husband was there, last night, at nine, when the couple drove away. The husband, with three empty mouths calling him at home, went back, and is working on the farm now while officers and the relatives of Mrs. Sterrett are pursuing her in the hope of coaxing her back from her madness.
Her madness? LOL - I wish I could hear her half of the story.
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