“The half-breed Indian wife of Bill Guy, a Negro shanty-boatman, and who disappeared from their family boat at the mount of Pond Run, has returned to her former haunts.”
“The woman was seen wandering about the willows and brushwood near Pond Creek Saturday and after considerable difficulty was brought to bay by her dusky spouse.”
“The woman it will be remembered was seen drifting down the Ohio in a small johnboat without oars one day last week. She and her husband had quarreled and the woman shammed insanity.”
“She ran amuck through the woods and bottom lands, now and then pitching to the ground and rolling over and over, only to rise just as quickly and elude her pursuers. She was cornered in a cluster of bushes but suddenly sprang up and escaped. Leaping into a boat she floated out into the Ohio and barely escaped being cut down by the big towboat Florence Marmet.
At first it was thought the boat had upset her little craft and drowned her. Nothing was seen of her until the following morning when Buena Vista people caught sight of her floating downstream. It developed she had eluded her pursuers by crawling into an ince house at Given’s Landing, four miles from where she had started and spending the night. When captured she had an old coat, the inside of which was stuffed with sawdust evidently taken from there and which she used to protect herself from the cold. The husband welcomed her with open arms. The couple spend some time at the Infirmary last winter, both suffering from frozen feet.”2
