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Show SUFFERS FOR CEDIE. UNIQUE PUNISHMENT FOR WIFE DESERTER. A POETIC JUSTICE WITH A THIS IS TENGEANCEt to Lire In yore with the Same Iloaae tb Women He Had Not Allowed to Speali De-cJt- k1 to HE recent murder of old man Strevel by his son and the story of the separation of the husband and wife fifteen year ago and their strange and romantic meeting several months since in Fort Scott, Kas., Bourbon county, has given a great prominence throughout the deal r. rountry. Many strange Incidents have past haC'Ppnd in the county within the Scott a Fort decade For twenty year?. was the outpost of southwestern civilization, and there it was that the daring and roving characters made headquarters. Thprp Is an old manfinenow past farm in the age of 70 living on, his one of in who figures county Bourbon the roost wildly picturesque episodes tfcat ever transpired in the west. The the romance, that of part be played Inwomen and deserting two marrying so as the not is of strange them, both Twenty-fou- r lequel which followed. on a farm located years ago Dr Elder He Scott. Fort from fifteen miles who his and the wife, east, from came was an Industrious, economical woman, aided him materially in saving enough money to buy several hundred acres of land and Improving it with a, good farm house and stock barns. Dr. 'Elder -- and for many years lucrative practice in the northern part of the county. While he was engaged in his profession Mrs. Elder superintended the farm and di rected th- two men who were employed wa3 a phy.-io:an- , enjoyed a - "It Is," replied the lady or the house. THE PASSING SHOW. "What can I do for you?" "I have come to say to you that I. am also Mrs. Elder, and that your husband SOME RECENT TRAGEDIES OF is my husband." a other each women two The THE HEART. gave utpiercing look, and not a word wasMrs. tered for several minutes. Finally Elder No. 1 invited Mrs. Elder No.. 2 to AN EDITOR SUICIDES UNDER PECstate her case. She commenced her ULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.1 story by telling how she first met Dr. Elder three years and a half before in a little mining town In southern Colo- Shot Himself at the Feet of the' Woman rado. The doctor was there prospectWho Deceived. Kim Shot at Church ing. She was a widow and boarded ac-at Die Door Lfover and Sweetheart the same hotel. Dr. Elder became Toffetner. quainted with her and that acquaintance ripened Into a warm attachment for each other. One day the doctor RANK Colvin, one asked her to be his wife. She accepted of the bestr known Soon and they were married. they country editors in moved to a ranch several miles distant, Nebraska and Iowa, where they lived until Dr. Elder derecently went to serted her. He was kind and generous Omaha to be marand a good husband. All she knew about He expected ried. his former life was the statement he on his bridal to start once 'made of having lived in Bourbon d tour the Colorado. to day county, Kan., before going his body was He disappeared from the ranch as mysptead his body was teriously as he did from his farm in his ' j follow-instea- Bourbon county. To the Colorado woman he protested that he was a bachelor seeking a fortune in the west. Mrs. Elder No. 2 said that the doctor left her almost penniless and that three weeks after his disappearance she sold all her and earthly possessions in Colorado could see she to if came to Fort Scott get trace of him. She was told that such a man lived fifteen miles distant who had been absent over three years and who had just returned to his family. When Mrs. Elder No. 1 had heard this story she could no longer doubt its authenticity, and to" Mrs. Elder No. 2 she said: "Dr. Elder has wronged you no more than he has wronged me. He has grievously wronged both of us and has committed an offense which ought to put him behind prison bars during the remainder of his life." Wife No. 1 assured wife No. 2 that there was plenty of room there for both of them, andy told her she could remain there and the fruits of Elder's labor in former years. After a long conversation the women agreed to remain friends and to stand by each other in making life a burden to the man who betrayed them. The return of Dr. Elder that afternoon was anxiously awaited by his two ; shipped back to home at Randolph, his blew He la., for burial. resiOmaha out at the brains dence of Bernard McCann. A pathetic story surrounds the affair, in which Miss Kate E. Early, a well-knoyoung lady of Columbus, Neb., figures. It was in her presence, at the home of a mutual friend, that the final chapter in the affair closed. From the pocket of the dead man's coat was taken a letter addressed to the press, in which he explained that he had come to Omaha in the hope of persuading Miss Early to consummate their engagement of many months. He had suddenly became acquainted with the fact that she was already married, and he had arranged to commit suicide. To this story Miss Early replies that she was merely mar- 's friend, never had promised to ry him, and denies she is a married wn Col-vin- en-Jo- 'J i MRS. ELDER NO. MRS. ELDER NO. 1. to plant, cultivate and harvest the iropa. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Elder, two sons and a daughter, all of whom are now married and living in the vicinity. During these years the affection between parents and children was marked, and the happy union f Dr. and MrsElder was the comment the neighborhood. Finally Dr. Elder disappeared. He went to Fort Scott, boarded a train for the north, and that wai the last seen of him. This occurred about twelve years ago. The heart-broke- n of wife and sons telegraphed to friends in various parts of the country, but no tidings came of the missing man. Tiey thought he must have been wayl- aid and murdered for hfs mofiey. At lart they gave up hope and Mrs Elder and her children continued to run the farm as before, making money from the sale of crops and stock. Three years and a half after his disappearance Dr. Elder returned. He arrived at the old homestead In the night, and was greeted with loving embraces from his wife and children. He explained to them that he had been traveling on the mountains and on the Pacific slope, where he had hoped to make a fortune in mining investments and return and surprise his good wife and children. Sickness and misfortune had overtaken him, be said, and he was compelled to return to the old home. He said he should have communicated with his family, perhaps, but that he knew they would manage the farm aa before and do well. This explanation was accepted by Mrs. Elder in good faith, although she admitted that the story was a trifle gauzy. low-ave- r, no questions were asked, and Dr. Elder resumed his old place In the af- e 'mmm''m 2. Just as the sun was sinking behind the hills that fringe the Marma-to- n wives. river the doctor drove up to the "That's my husband," shouted Mrs. Elder No. 2, "but, the wretched creature!" One of the hired men was sent out to the barn to take care of his barn. horse and to inform him that he was wanted in the parlor. When he stepped Into the room there he met face to face the two women he had betrayed. He could not speak. He was overcome with the enormity of the crime which he had committed, and fell upon his knees and begged these wronged women and God to forgive him. But there was no forgiveness. All feeling of love and symand from pathy had turned to hate, were detertwo wives moment the that to make mined the punishment equal to the disgrace and chagrin he had debrought upon them. They quickly cided upon a method, and as soon as the doctor had rallied from his shock he was given the ultimatum. They told him that if he attempted to leave the country they would follow him to the remotest bounds of the earth to put him behind prison bars. Should he desire to spend his days on the old farm, he could do so, but he should never of them again; and furspeak to either to occupy a certain was he that ther, as his own, and that house room in the never again set foot in any he should in the room building. other To this day these injunctions have been respected by Dr. Elder. For eight lived by himself. He is years he hasfeeble to practice medicine and too old In his room broodtime his and spends His two wives live the over past. ing also and neither have spoken to there him since the day his crime was made necessary they communpublic When him by means of a slate or icate with or paper. His room adjoins the pencil and In the parti tJ on a hole dining-roocut, through which his food been has Neither the doctor nor him. handed is their trobles. his wives will discuss to a live each quiet and seprefer They leave life. the farm They rarely cluded and never visit with their neighbors. FRANK COLVIN. woman. She gave vent to these words while the blood was still trickling from the wounds of the man who had penned a few hours before the acccusation against her. Colvin was the editor of the Register, of Randolph, la. Previously he was editor of a Columbus paper. Mies Early resides at Columbus, where her father is a merchant. Six months ago, Colvin's letter explains, they became engaged, and their conduct since indicates such was the case. Per agreement they met at the McCann home. Colvln declares that Miss Early's wedding clothes were prepared, and he be lieved they would go to the altar before he returned home. He called on the young woman, and, according to the letter, she told him of the dark page in her history. Between sobs she explained that last year she was secretly married to J. C. Bardwell of Arkansas City. She made no effort --to explain the secret she marriage, nor why, as she asserted,cereleft her husband the moment the mony was performed. Cblvin at once left the house and returned to his hotel After thinking the matter over he con cluded to kill himself. When arrange ments in this direction were completed he still clung to the hope that possibly a' joke and the revelation concluded to return to the McCann home and again see Miss Early in the hope it was not true. He entered the parlor, Miss Early met him and she says he merely asked for a glass of water. She went for it, and, hearing a pistol shot, returned and found Colvin dead on the floor. She resents the imthe secret marriage and de putation of never said anything that clares she could have caused "her friend," as she to him, to have persists In referring an Idea. Miss Early is 25 such gotten old, decidedly intelligent, but not years at all attractive. If she is disturbed over the situation In which she finds was-merel- y m, Two Sisters Go Insane. McArdle, 40 years old, and Ann Mary 27, were taken to the Harriet, her sister, at insane pavilion otherBellevue hospital, The morning. New York, the are the t of insane offspring daughters father, a carpenter, 80 parents. Their in the lunatic asybeen years old,Ishas at living at the home present lum, and Their mother is two daughters. of his been has confined to and imbecile, an ten last years. Another the for bed her asylum. Mary-Ann- , sister died in an insane while lying in bed, saw Harriet bottle of carbolic acid,- which a take an effort to drink. The sick made she woman leaped from the bed and strugher sister, and finally man-aire- d gled with take the poison away from to and nervous, this weak Already her unbalanced Mary Ann's mind. shock Carved Her to Death. and Sarah Taylor, colWinfleld John In an. alterored of Natchez, engagedwhich resultMiss., Natchez, cation at a knife and drawing ed in Winfleldwoman foreacross the slashing the her in the side, cuthead and stabbing almost off and cutting her left hand circular chunk of flesh of two ting a across .out of her right thigh. inches his escape. Jealousy is made Winfleld the cause. ? - DR. FTnTT? fections of his wife, who exerted her- wj make him happy and contented. Z1 sb80 did not dream of the revela- B00n to be made- - One day, v8 inort time after the doctor's return,he Im3V0 town on an errand and to meet friends. While he was absent a trance woman, about 45 years of age, ed at the Elder homestead. She was xeaUy dressed and heavily veiled. She " i : "a met at the door by the rood wife, and being assured doctor's that Dr. resided there, she walked Into Parlor. "fc this Mrs. Klder?" asked the , - Vice-Preside- nt : I i es-Bio- nal j ; i - .to mi ' married two years ago, and he got in STAGE. the habit of drinking. On this account DIVORCE, THEN she separated from him and returned to her father, who Is superintendent of APPARENTLY THE PLAN OF streets. Scott went to Kansas City! and WICKES. FANNIE returned a few days ago. "Ben," said he Sunday morning to a friend, "I want to reform. Let us go to church." He did SHE FIRST MARRIED A BEARDLESS go, and saw his wife there. When church YOUTH OF TWENTY. was over he followed his wife down the steps, and accosting her said; "Won't you come back and live with me?" She Then Secured a Divorce and Now said- she would not, whereupon he Wants to Shine Before, the Footwhipped out his revolver 'and killed her Daughter of lights before the astonished people could of Pullman Company. realize the situation. After the bullet left his revolver he whipped it around. and with the fire of a maniac in his LORENCE Lillian eyes stuck it in his mouth and fired. youngest Wickes, "a Scott was a. baker, and is the son of one of Vice daughter of the old settlers and prominent citiof Wickes President zens of Wichita. Late Sunday afternoon the bodies of Car company of Carlo Enrico Reta and his wife Of but a few hours were found dead in bed another sensa Wvvy" sd in a room of the Palace 'Hotel, San tion by making her Francisco. A bullet holej over the heart iebut on the prof of each told how they went out of the stage at world together clasped in each other's Memphis, appearing arms. Carlo Enrico Reta, lieutenant n "The Sign of the of the Seventeenth Casart Cavalry, ar- Cross," of the with company rived in that city nine months ago. He Wilson Barrett, "I can see nothing had no means of earning a livllhood in connection with this move of Miss except by giving instructions in the Wickes which should particularly inItalian language This is how he be- terest the public," said Mr. Barrett "It came acquainted with Adele Wolf, the came about solely through the instrugirl who was found dead at his side. mentality of. the late theatrical manHis love was reciprocated by his pupil, ager, John W. Norton, who was my but her mother refused to entertain any friend. He had requested me to give idea of marriage. Reta was a musician, certain proteges of his trials, and Miss a gentleman of birth and breeding, and Wickes was among the number. I had very popular in the Italian colony. occasion, thereupon, to judge her talent Reta's family in Italy is a wealthy one, and found her to possess unmistakable but the young man himself had little ability as an actress and I ami glad to money. The dead girl had been to Eu- have her with my company. She has rope with her mother, and waS well great talent, and I have no doubt as educated, especially in music, her voice to her future brilliant success as an actress. At present, of course, she esbeing far above the average. says only the junior parts." Miss Wickes said to a newspaper man: ATTACKED BY A PANTHER. "I am seeking no notoriety, but rather A Museum Collector's Narrow Escape want the plaudits that are due the actress of real merit. I intend to succeed Near Palm Beach,- Fla. upon the stage, and with that in view I In his desire to secure a photograph of a large female panther crouched on a limb, Prof. C. B. Cory of Chicago came near losing his life last wedk near . : MISS WOLF, do not indicate that actions herself, her, fact. On Sunday rj last near the entrance Lincoln Street Christian at In Wichita, Kan., church entire the of view full congregation, Walter Scott shot his wife in the back of the. head, then put the muzzle of the revolver in his themouth, and roof of his fired a bullet through Both brain. fell on the his Into mouth sidewalk and died side by side In less shooting octhan a minuteorafter the women three Two fainted curred. on sight of the tragedy, and the greatest excitement took place. Mrs. Scott was leaning on the arm of her brother, who accompanied her to church, when she was shot. The police ambulance took them both to the undertakers. Scott was 21 years of age19.and the wife They were a handsome woman of of ' the . Palm beach. Prof. Cory, who is connected with the Columbian museum, is in Florida collecting specimens for that Institution. While Prof. Cory and his assistants were hunting south three dbgs "treed" a panther. The assistants tried to shoot, but Prof. Cory forbade, saying he wished to photograph the beast first. The professor arranged his camera, and in another instant would have had the panther's picture had not the latter spoiled everything by springing. The fierce beast landed upon Cory and the camera and began clawing the former savagely. Luckily one of the professor's assistants put a bullet in the panther before he could do much damage, andxthe professor escaped with a few painful scratches on the face and body. Next week Prof. Cory will make a trip south in search of a male panther which has eluded all hunters for many years. WOMAN DIES OF FRIGHTi CLAIMS ANOTHFR VICTIM. Farm" Near Rochester Has " t. Suicide i. l . - : ' Ghastly History. In order to keep up an unbroken record for. three decades past, j Willie Carpenter, 14 years old, committld sul cide by hanging on the farm of jRufus Powell in Somerset, N. Y., last .weelu The lad had been employed On the 'for-j: farm three years, and since the first, of the year he' talked a great deal about, . the various suicides committed; bn For years the people for! miles about the place have called it the farm.? In 1875 William j Nilet, a wealthy; farmer, without apparent cause, cut his throat 4n a shed bck of th house. TVn venwi tatoi nfWma a. the-farm- "sul--ci- de v a day, his son Thomas was fburiq hang-- - iHe also- - had no reason for killing himself.; Three years ago Ruf us Powel bought the farm; and lauerhed at the his neighbors. He boldly declared that I , he. would never kill himself. was an industrious? fboy and Young-Carpenter- anxious to educate himself, flft heard of the suicides and asked the neighbors' boys if they thought the recbrdtor th decade would be kept up. It Is thought that his . mind became aff ectepl Mr. Powell was greatly shocked tof find the lad hanging from a beam Initio barn. He had slipped a nose around jils neck after fastening a rope to a bim. 'and then jumped ten feet Into an 6pen hay i Pit. , ENOCH ARDEN DIVOR An Indiana Widow Tied Up In Queer Entanglement. Mrs. Elizabeth Cassady of Kokomo, Ind., has begun suit for diyorqe (against Thomas Cassady on the grotind .that he deserted her in 1869. At that U me they had been married four years. fcne day Cassady went to Rush county! i& collect the money on a farm he had, Mold. He , collected $600, but never returned to the word being sent broadcast that he had been robbed and nii!irlered. Many evidences of the truth of the story came to the ears of the fcupposed widow, and without the formality of a divorce she in the course of .tijne mar ried again, her second husbahd being Alexander Hughes, a proniinjdnt and wealthy farmer. Hughes wa$ a Widower with several children. He died a few years ago, and the woman beipie, as she thought, the second time jaj. widow. Recently she became involved fin a lawsuit with the Hughes heirs for the widow's portion of the estat At the trial trustworthy evidence; was pro duced that her first husband, Mr. Cassady, was still alive, and wast now living in Shelby county. This slttled the claim of Mrs. Cassady and it Jwas comdi The subsequent promised. causewill vorce proceedings no oyerof end lawsuits the property among the children of the different marriages. Mrs. Cassady is 50 years of age and; stands high in the community. his-wife- j - - A Black Desperado. James Stewart was killed the other night by a negro desperado known by FLORENCE WICKES. of "Railroad Bill." The negro have entered upon my professional ca- the name Baldwin and Escmabia terrorized has reer, assuming the most Important parts some month Louisiana, counties, impossible now. I know to be great in past. March 6 he was for at at found any calling one must master details. tank at Hurricane Bayou bjrasleep a freight I have entered upon a dramatic career who, assisted by several of with the written consent of both my conductor, took the negro's rifle aiidl the father and mother, though they are no thentrainmen, him. tjo the surawoke longer living together." Mrs. Annetta prise of his would-b- e Greatly the descaptors Wickes-Walkof St. Louis, whose hustwo and in the revolvers, perado pulled band died more than a year ago, and followed the made entire that fight who Is a sister of Miss Florence Wickes, crew seek shelter in a house hear train by. Ai is traveling with the latter. came a second few train 'up Miss Florence Lillian Wickes was momentsfreight and later the negro captured married to George O.' Ford at Janes-villI j Sees Her Child in Great Danger and Does Not Survive the Shock. Mrs. Elizabeth Whiteway, aged 30, died at Cleveland the other night of nervous prostration, caused by fright, and her mother, Mrs. William Herr, is lying at death's door from injuries received at the time her daughter was frightened. Two weeks ago,! as Mrs. er e, rode up to where the imprisoned crewV Wis., Dec. 17, 1894. The ceremony it, and filled house with lead. were, took plape at Trinity church, and was Since then every the has been made effort performed in the presence of the mother to capture him, but withoiit success. and the sister of the groom. Ford is He was seen by two whitie men, on. the son of the head of the Ford Milling whom he opened fire, wounding company, is about 20 years old, and was organized a! posse and the manager of a skating rink In the found theirThey man two and aj half mile Wisconsin town. Miss Wickes met from Bay Minette. A midnight battle-ensued-, young Ford a month, before at a Chiduring which Chief James Stewcago reception. It was a case of in- art received a rlffe ball through hi fatuation at first sight, and much sym- heart. The negro escaped. Sheriff Mcpathy was extended to a Chicago young Millan of Brewton arrived oh the scene man who was supposed to stand fore- with bloodhounds, but fa jheavy ralzt most in the good graces of the fair prevented a successful tralli : young daughter of the vice president of the Pullman Palace Car company. The Tragedy a Mysery. Ford conducted a masterly campaign. A mysterious double suicide was disHe induced his sister to invite Miss Mich., Wickes to visit her, and they were mar- covered in a hotel at Galesburg, woman, ried within a week. The first intimation the other evening. A20man fend and 25 years of her Chicago friends had of the marriage apparently between tlie in arrived irjorning on a. early was a telegram from the bride announc- age, The! west. man regisfrom the train ing her marriage with a promise to tered as Frank Robin, of Sfmth Haven, write next day. After the separation Mich. At 6 o'clock at night the doer of of T. H. Wickes from his wife the room was forced their open and MRS. WHITEWAY. daughter Florence made her home with were found dead Herr was descending a flight of stairs her father and brother. Mr. Wickes was no evidence of a in; bed. orThere viostruggle with Mrs. Whiteway's Infant child In was in Europe at the time of the mar- lence. A then! on labeled floor paper lay her arms and carrying a lamp, she fell. riage. Later the relatives apparently f! The lamp exploded and set fire to the determined to accept the situation. child's clothing. Mrs. Whiteway extin- About a month ago the separation of guished the flames and saved the ba- Mr. and Mrs. Ford was announced and by's life. Immediately she was taken several stories were current as to the ill, and never left her bed afterward, cause. Young Ford attributes the difdying, as the physicians say, from the ferences to maternal intervention. Miss effect of the shock. Mrs. Herr was Wickes had for some time made her badly hurt by the fall and her death is home with her sister, Mrs. Walker, of expected at any time. Mrs. Whiteway St. Louis, and at that time was said was one of the most beautiful women to be preparing for the stage under the In the city, having been chosen five direction of John W. Norton recently years ago to represent Germania in a killed in a wreck on the Vandalla road great German day parade. In Indiana. Her marriage jwas supj orie--slightl- . ; the-coupl- e posed to have settled any aspirations the young woman had in thje! direction An Ohio "Jean Valjean" Case. of the footlights, but the separation reA well dressed stranger, who was well vived the reports. Miss Wickes is about supplied with funds, called upon TJ. F. 18 years old, a dashing blondte, tall and Kistler, an attorney at Youngstown, becomingly gownedj after the Ohio, the other day, and, requesting a always She cut a wide swath siecle fin de out a news- in the circlesgirl. private conversation, pulled of the susceptible young paper, and, pointing to an article In a men of Chicago. Jamestown (N. Y.) paper, requested him The article ' stated that to read it. TtiM Kaw lWnman. Ernest Lewis, charged with robbing a of people witnessed a lively creamery, had been placed under Hundreds afternoon between two other the fight arrest and lodged in the jail at Mayville women back of (the Water-bur- y lots in the next term at the of court. to await trial sai&i-"Th- at in works Brooklyn, E. D. rope man is innoThe stranger were Annie combatants The jSchiltz and cent. I and two others did that job.1 My The for which Launenburgj Marie prize name Is Carl Johnson, and I don't want of affectioi was the Patrick fought to but they I want save to serve time myself, iThe Women a drives truck. who If Dwyer, man can." I stateThe an Innocent at 1 o'clock, each accomment made by Johnson was reduced to were on hand by a host of friends. No time writing and forwarded to Mayville, af- panied but they roiled up their was lost, ter which the stranger departed. went at each otfrer savageand sleeves of referee or was There nojieed ly. Call It a Hoodoo. women had Af the timekeeper. There seems to be no doubt of the ex- pounded each other for over five, ministence of a specter in the Tyrone! bot- utes shouts that the police were comtoms, west of Albia, Ia and engineers ing caused arwild scramble among the including th contestand firemen on the Burlington declare in all; jdirectlons. It seen scattered ThWy the have walking track ants. they and swinging a lantern. One mail de- The police appeared on the scene later, clared it is In the form of a woman but n5 arrests were made. The jwomen whose husband was killed on the rail- are Jhot satisfied and will arrange to road some time ago. The moans of the megt again anu uaw woman can be heard for several rods clear; white inn . Wi - " ... . vases of .... but she has not yet succeeded in stopj. are sun or green popular, glass with her lanping any trains spectral where quality, rather than Quantern. Many ' railroad men look upon the a table ghost as a hoodoo, and predict an ac- tity is to be considered, render mbst attractive. cident at that point sooner or later.! j j tf . leye-witneas- es, i I . c-yst- al BRIDGE WHITNEY. "strychnine." Both held jhS.ndkerohief In their hands as thpuhj chloroform had been used. On One! of the man's cuffs is the name Bridge Whitney, which had been partly erased. Later It was learned that thel yopng man was the son of J. H. Whitney pfj Kalamazoo, superintendent of the Both ford Paper-mill- , and the woman wasj Lizzie Smith. Young Whitney, whoj w&sj 18 years of age, left home, his parehts not knowing where he was goingj There Is no cause known for the double deed. Killed Hlsj wfe. A brutal wife murder tN.s committed on Thursday night at jHamtown, a minnear here In pnestern Penning villageThe scene ifasj at the Wind-sch- ik sylvania. d home and the perpetrator of was George j Wiridschlk, well-knoin that locality. Ih. a fit of anger he cruslied his wife's skull to a shapeless. mass and then made; Jiis escape. was found in ,a.n jipstairs room, was locked, andi the three chilwhich knew hpthlng of the the of family dren thiU their .father but supposed! murder, and mother had gone! a1 ay on a visit. jthe-dee- wn . . j Th-corp- The school of experience gives ho di plomas. uaiyeston News. se |
