Sheffield Independent – Wednesday 01 June 1892

Elopement At Mexbro’.

Yesterday considerable excitement prevailed amongst the miners’ wives in the neighbourhood of Wath road, Mexbro’, by the arrival of a married woman from Denaby Main, who had traced her husband to that quarter, and had discovered that his affections were being centred on another ” fair one.”

The arrangements had been fully completed for an elopement. The woman, on Saturday, had her furniture sold by public auction at Mexbro’ — she presumably being a widow — and two tickets had been purchased by the man for their departure from the Swinton Midland Railway Station.

The unhappy wife, who was thus being cruelly deserted, found the dwelling where the couple were supposed to be, and a crowd of woman and children surrounded the building with the intention of giving the runaway husband and the heartless woman a cordial reception. They waited until their patience was exhausted, and then, making their way into the house, found they were too late— “the birds ” had flown