Multnomah-Clackamas County OR Archives News.....Ends His Long Wife Hunt September 9, 1904
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Morning Oregomain September 9, 1904
I.B.Small,of Oswego,Will Now Sue For Divorce
Wearied by a 12 months chase after his wie who,he is now positive,eloped with 
Frank Stice,an ex convict,I.B.Small,of Oswego,has returned to his home and 
will soon commene proceddings for divorce.
Mrs.Mary A.Small left her home on the afternoon of August 13,1903. She came to 
Portland on the train in company with another woman.When she parted from thsi 
woman she disappeared,and all the efforts of her husband to find her were of 
no avail.
After searching the vicinty of Porland,dragging the river for her body and 
inquiring everywhere,Mr.Small received information which at once led him to 
believe that his wife had deserted him for another man.Further researches 
brought him to the conclusion that this man ws Frank Stice,alias John 
F.Thompson,a man who had served time.
Descrptions of the missing woman were also published in the newspapers,and 
elsewhere,but Mr.Small left the city to continue his wife hunt without telling 
all that he knew.A man named Bush wrote to him from McMurray,Wash.,stating 
that Mrs.Small was in that town.In this letter he told Small that he had 
telegraphed immediately to Chief of Police Hunt,but had received no 
response.Small called upon the Chief for an explanation,but the head of the 
Police Department declared thathe had never heard from Bush.
Leaving the city,Small finally drifted down into New Mexico,occasionally 
hearing of his wife,and her companion,but never catching up with them.When he 
learned to his entire satisfaction that she has left him to elope with another 
man,a motive of revenge took the place of his original desire to find his 
wife,and he continued the chase.Now he has gicen it up,and will ask for a 
legal seperation from her."That's all there is for me to do." he said 
yesterday.
A short time before Mrs.Small quitted her home she had quarreled with her 
eldest daughter,Lena,a girl 16 years old.She told tow women taht she would 
never again enter the house so long as the gril was there.At first her husband 
believed that she had become demented snd had committed suicide.

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