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Show JIV FRANKS QUIT." It Is Alleged That He Was Intimate With Other Women Beside Be-side His Wife. HE ACTED AS A DETECTIVE. A Story of Interest to the People Who Love to Listen to Kacy Tales. K. H. Kranks, a deputy Vnlted States marsh"! mar-sh"! and a ltx-al detective, has applied to the district court for legal separation from his wife, Ni'llle, ou the grounds of extremeeructty. When the case is called for trial there w ill probulilv he some racy developments. Another woman Is In tho c se. Franks has iilready been discharged from the service of the I'utted Slates marshal, and hla dismissal was caused by the '-woman scrape." and as alleged, for receiving money as a private pri-vate detective towoik up flitted Slates cases. His friends yesterday politely stated that Franks had "resigned" his position to devote his attention to detective work, which was more prorttable to him than In the eervlco ot the government, imt ke many resignations, tho officer of the law w aa requested by Marshal Mar-shal Parsons to hand tu his resignation as his services were no longer required. lti tho petition for divorce Kranks alleges that he has not lived with tils wife, to whom he was married In tssi. for over a year. The reason rea-son that he gives for their separation Is that she has an uugovernshlc temper and is so cruel that hecan't put up with her actions. According to his accusations his wife has had no ronil-dence ronil-dence In him, and has caused him considerable mental anguish and distress ou account of ay-ins ay-ins iut he was untrue Ut her. In Mrs. Franks' answer to the hill for divorce she will allege that he deserted her for a pretty young woman by the nume of Carrie I.lmls.ty, who is now In San Francisco. According to the stories of friends and relatives rela-tives of both Mrs. Franks and Miss Lindsay, Franks represented himself to tho young woman as being an unmarried man. He told her that he was living with Nellie, hut shn wits not his wife. They had never been married. Last winter Franks and the Lindsay woman went. ti Han Francisco. They returned and as Miss Lindsay's people made a great roar the girl went back to ban Francisco. Franks ugalu followed her. and after remaining a week or ten days returned to Bull Lake. Their vislla to Sail Francisco cost them some menu y. nud a landlady of a boarding house of, that city has now a bill for lif In a local agency for collection. col-lection. Hhe, according to the ag-'iu y, has threatened to expose Frauks ami Miss Llnd.iay If he does not pay it. Ou account of this craie, together with one In whlrh he Is accusant of trying to extort money frcui Mrs. Wellington to work up the abduction case of her daughter. Myrtle, which Is still fresh In the minds ot Tub Timks readers, read-ers, Franks was discharged as a deputy United States marshal. As a deputy ttwns his duty to search for the abducted girl, but claiming to heaprtvate detective, he wanted "side money." Mrs. Wellington gave him tf. and Marshal Parsons thinks that Franks expended It legitimately legiti-mately In trying to ascertain tho girl's w hereabouts, here-abouts, but what caused the trouble was the application hy Franks to Mrs. Wellington for more money. She wouldn't Iw "sqUM'ed," and told Mr. Parsons Hlwut It. fHhers who claim to be lu a jaMiUnu tu l.uow, nay that III stcud of lining what money Mrs. Wellington gave him to look up the missing girl, he took It and appropriated It to his own us hy going to Han Francisco to see the Lindsay womau. Miss Lindsay his folks here, and they emphatically em-phatically assert that If Franks' Intentions are tomarryUhe girl, If he secures a divorce, they will assist thn wire in lighting the case. They say that Miss Lindsay shall not marry him. Mrs. Pranks la now with her parents at Cottonwood. |