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The Nebraska Advertiser
Nemaha, Nemaha City, Nemaha County, Nebraska
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In Joplin, Mo., Mrs. Alice McCoy eloped with former lover Newton Mapes, leaving her husband, Superintendent William McCoy of the Indiana mine, and their young son. She left a note praising her husband's character but declaring her love for another, asking him to raise the boy and tell him she was dead.
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A Joplin Woman Who Eloped Requested That Her Baby Be Taught That She Was Dead.
Joplin, Mo., Aug. 30.-Mrs. Alice McCoy, wife of Superintendent William McCoy, of Indiana mine, is missing. It is alleged she left Joplin in company with Newton Mapes. Mrs. McCoy and Mapes were lovers several years ago at Sparta, Mo. The runaway wife addressed a note to her husband saying that he was a true and honest man, but that she loved another. "We will meet in heaven, but never again on earth," she said. "Raise our little boy right and teach the baby that its mother is dead."
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Joplin, Mo.
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Aug. 30
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mrs. mccoy missing after eloping; left note to husband regarding child-rearing.
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Mrs. Alice McCoy, wife of Superintendent William McCoy of the Indiana mine, left Joplin with Newton Mapes, her former lover from Sparta, Mo. She wrote a note to her husband stating she loved another, they would meet in heaven but not on earth, and to raise their boy right while teaching him she was dead.