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Show HOUSE LIS DRAWN FAR SUFFRAGE BATTLE i Plants Wife No. 1 and Her Baby on the Train as His Other Family Arrives Kenosha, Wis., Jan. 11. Tho Rev. James Morrison Darnell, pastor of tho Henry M. Simmons Memorial church gavo up "Ills pulpit hero today Immediately after Doris Vaughan Dar nell, tho 10 year old girl ho had married mar-ried ln Chicago last November, had overruled his objections and came hero to loin him In his church work. Tho night boforo, when Darnell had learned thnt his wlfo was determined to como here, Mrs. Ruth Sopher Darnell, Dar-nell, to whom tho minister had referred re-ferred to as his wlfo, loft hurriedly with hor baby for her homo In Owa tonna, Minn. Darnell, whoso marrlago to Doris Vaughn was performed by tho Itov. Myron E. Adams, November 4, 1914, returned to Chicago with her and Is now at her homo. To tho trustees of 'tho church ho showed clippings from an Owatonna paper announcing tho birth of a son to tho Rev. James Morrison Darnell and wlfo and giving tho dato of their marriage as October, Octo-ber, 1913. Darnell came to tho Simmons church November 1. Ho had served for a short tlmo as pastor of the Church of Unity In Hinsdale, 111., and aa pastor of tho Church of Good Tidings Tid-ings In Drooklyn, N. Y. nuth Sopher Darnell and hor child camo a day or so later. Sho took up tho Hfo of a pastor's wlfo, took hor Sunday school class and hor days wero soon occupied. occu-pied. In tho meantime Darnell received a dally letter from his Chicago brldo urging that sho bo allowed to take up hor homo with him In Wisconsin. Darnell's roplles told of tho dlscom forta of his Hfo as a roomer with his widowed cousin and her child. As a means of doforrlng further tho arrival of tho Chicago bride, It Is said Darnell wroto her of a small pox epidemic, of which ho said ho had becomo a victim and that ho was locked In on Isolation hospital and Anally that his cousin had lost her Hfo Uirough tho disease Tlion Mrs. Darnell tolographed that sho would start from Chicago at onco for Kenosha. Mr. Darnell took Ruth Sopher Darnell and her baby to tho train bound for Minnesota. Ho mot his wlfo tho next morning and oxplalncd tho situation which he said was complicated but innocent. Sho was satisfied, but tho trusteos of tho church wero not. Tho paBtor thoro foro tendered his resignation and wont to Chicago with his wlfo. |