Show FORMER WifE iFE TELLS JELLS OF WAIT AIT FOR PURNELL Mrs Angeline Stephens Divorced in Indiana Town 30 Years Ago by Cult Leader Tells Story THOUGHT HE WOULD RETURN TO HER Mary W Was s FI Flapper and V Vamped a Ben A Away way From Me Woman Asserts Asserts Asserts As As- No Religion Then PORTSMOUTH 0 O May 10 A A dramatic story of how she waited twenty-five twenty years for King Benjamin Benjamin Ben Ben- jamin Purnell ab abdicated ruler of ot the House of f David af to return to their humble home Si Th Greenup Ky was related here today by Mrs An An- geline Stephens his former Wife vIreo Purnell divorced Mrs Stephens ina ina in in- a little town In Indiana Indians nearly thirty thirty thirty thir thir- ty years ago after h he had become enamored of ot Mary Stallard MM Stephens charged I 1 always tho thought Ben would come back to me meshe she said today I waited twenty-five twenty years for tor him Then two years ago I married married mar mar- ried ned again Ben IBen didn't have any unusual idea ideas about religion when he lived ed with me rue and had We ve re remained remained remained re- re together I know he wouldn't have been In all hil hi this trouble Mrs Stephens said she did not riot re remember remember remember re- re member the grounds on which their divorce was granted but that she was certain Benjamin's Benjamins religion had nothing to do with it Ben Den drove a huckster wagon In Greenup Mary was a flapper in her day Mrs Stephens said and I think she sha Sh Just vamped Ben away from me Mary Stallard according to Mrs Stephens is King ICIng Benjamins Benjamin's present wife Queen Mary of or the tha Benton fenton Harbor colony Several times after the divorce and before ton Harbor r cult wa was started Purnell returned to visIt visIt vis- vis It his former wife for tot tota a few tew days at nt ata nta a time she sh said eald Every time he came back I thought he was going to stay Once I remember he got up and left In Inthe Inthe inthe the middle of or orthe the night Mrs Stephens said she had not heard from Benjamin for almost ten tea years year |