Case of Desertion

One J. L. Markey, of Cordova, Ill., who is said by his wife to be a member of an Odd Fellows lodge in this city deserted her recently, running off with his hired girl. He left his wife entirely destitute. From her description of him he must be a grand rascal and any one would do community a service who would arrest him for adultery.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 16, 1862, p. 1