EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT CASE.
The Birmingham police are just now in search of a man named William Bailey, who has eloped with a young woman, leaving a wife and nine children behind him, and taking also upwards of £30 which he had charge of as flecretary of a Christina i fund. Bailey worked at the Birmingham Hollow ware Company, and the girl he eloped with worked there also. .Some few weeks ago B.iilcy'b wife compl.vincd to tho girl's mother of her husband's "carrying on " with her daughter, but tho only effect of thii was that the mm took a house for the gill, and went to live with her. When he had to distribute the Christmas fund to his fellow-workers, he did not attend the meeting. A number of them went to his now house, but he said he had no money for them, and would not lot them in. Thereupon they laid siege to the house, nnd burst open the door and rushed in. They found the girl hidden under a mattiass and Bailey in the garret, and took them into the street and used them very roughly, covering them with soot from head to foot. Next morning tho man left the town, and a complaint was at once lodged to the police for the embezzlement of tne money.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2128, 27 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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219EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT CASE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2128, 27 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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