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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], In Quest of his Wife. (search)
In Quest of his Wife.
--We take the following amusing incident from the New Orleans Picayune, of the 25th:
An unsophisticated son of Old Ireland, dressed in the garb of a volunteer, called on Recorder Emerson yesterday afternoon to obtain the release of his wife, arrested, as he was informed, on the 13th of August last, for a breach of peace.
When his Honor kindly asked him for her name, the soldier answered, with a charming ingenuity, he did not know for sure, but he was certain a woman was sent to the Parish Prison, on the 13th of August, and that prisoner was his better half.
"Is it," said Mr. Emerson, who had looked over the register of arrests, "Mary Carroll?"
"Yes," replied the husband, "that's she," "No, it cannot be, for I see this woman was arrested on the 17th; but it may be Kate Carroll"
"Exactly so!
Please to give me an order for the release of my darling Kate, I long so much to see her."
"But this Kate was arrested for drunkenness, and yo