Looking Back

100 years ago

Wheatland. — Mrs. Lulu Myers, wife of a ranchman, and her 16-year-old admirer, Guy Lockson, with whom she fled from her husband’s home, are in the county jail here, charged with horse-stealing. The woman is alleged to have stolen a horse from a neighbor, Charles Howell, while the boy appropriated one belonging to Myers, and together they rode into Converse county. They were not apprehended for several days. She is old enough to be the mother of the youth, 6 feet 3 inches in height, with whom she left home.

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