Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Wife Surprises Gus Routh September 2, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 2, 1904
Saloonkeepe Receives Sudden Visit,and Later Goes to Jail
Gus Routh,well knonw in certain circles as the keeper of a saloon,sent word 
home yesterday that he would not be able to show up for lunch.Pressing 
business engagements had interfered and he would take his lunch down town.
Mrs.Gus Routh drew her own conclusion as to the possible nature of the 
business engagement and,with her child in her arms started out on 
reconnaisance. Going to a saloon near Third and Columbia streets she eplored 
the winerooms,and her curiosity was rewarded by the sounds of her husband's 
voice pouring endearing words into the willing ears of a woman named Ella 
Johnson.Bursting in on te scene Mrs.Routh caused a panic of an approved 
order,Routh and the woman fled precipately before the wronged woman's 
wrath.Mrs.Routh went in pursuit in an aeffort to entangle her fingers in the 
tresses of her rival,but the Johnson womanwas the better sprinter.
It chanced that Officers White and Carr heard the sounds of disturbance and 
joined in the chase after the fleeting woman,who ran into the Union 
Laundry,where she was captured.She and Routh were taken to the police station 
on charges of diorderly conduct,although a more serious charge may later be 
substituted.Both were locked up in the city bastille.

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