Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — THERE ARE FEW REGRETS [ARTICLE]

THERE ARE FEW REGRETS

Madame Brown, or Donahue, as she is now, took her husband, W. B. Donahue, and departed for North Dakota Wednesday. It is understood that she has sold the contract for her property here—she had no deed to same —to Rensselaer parties and has left town for good. Their departure was no doubt somewhat accelerated by the fact that evidence was in possession of parties here that the husband, W. B. Donahue, had sworn falsely in the recent trial of the Madame here, regarding the date of his first wife’s death in Dakota last summer. Both Donahue and his present wife testified that they became engaged to be married last July, and crfi cross-examination the former testified that his first wife had died at Lisbon, No. Dak., last June. As a matter of fact, however, proof has since been received to show that she died on August Ist last, and when Donahue swore that she died in June he deliberately committed perjury, the penalty for which is imprisonment of not less than two nor more than twenty years, with a fine of SSO to SI,OOO. Had not both previously testified that they became engaged to marry in July, it is probable Donahue would have told the truth regarding his first wife’s death, but it would not have look* ed well perhaps to the jury to have let them know that he became engaged to this woman a month before his first wife had died. • Now that he has left here it is not likely that anything will be done in the matter, but should be again set foot in Rensselaer he is sore to be arrested for perjury,