Charles W. Darst, continued

DARST COMES HOME

THE ELOPING PROSPECT MAN GROWS

TIRED OF THE WAITRESS

Mrs. Darst Had a Seance with a Marion

Spiritualistic Medium, Who Prophasise

the Husband's Return -- The Spiritualist

Makes a Good Guess.

The cat came back.

Home, sweet home, had its allurements for C. W. Darst, the ex-landlord of the Watkins house at Prospect. He returned Saturday evening it will be recalled that Darst astonished the natives of Prospect some three weeks since by wandering away from his own friends. In other words he eloped with a pretty waitress who was employed at the hotel over which he at one time presided as landlord. The affair created a sensation. Darst's wife was left with a broken heart. She had misgivings that her husband would never return. Meanwhile Prospect society talked about the sensation to its heart's content, and the elopement began to be looked upon as a closed incident. But a change came over the spirit of Darst's dreams. The charm of home, a trusting wife and family began to tug at the ex-landlord's heartstrings.

The sorrow that had come to Mrs. Darst made her susceptible of hope, but she feared the worst, and in a moment of doubt and uncertainty she came to Marion last week and consulted a spiritualistic medium, so it is said, and was told that her husband would return to her Saturday. All day the trusting wife waited expectantly for him, and was rewarded in the evening for her faith by the wayward husband and father putting in his appearance.

Miss Adda Evans, the young woman with whom Darst eloped, it is reported, has gone to the home of a brother in Denver, Col.

Monday 14 MAR 1896 - The Marion Daily Star, Marion, Ohio