Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — WILL GIVE UP HIS WIFE [ARTICLE]

WILL GIVE UP HIS WIFE

She Left'Him Because She Had Been Forced to Wed a Man Unloving. BESIDES, SHE LOVED ANOTHER Heard of His Bereavement and Departed for His Neighborhood Strange and “Ower-True" Tale. Petersburg, Ind., Oct 16.—A story, strange as fiction, is told by Sheriff Kime, a well-to-do and highly respected farmer of thia county, who left in search of a faithless wife about two weeks ago, and posing as a stock buyer traveled through different parts of Arkansas and finally located the woman at Pinkney. Ark., where she Lad taken refuge with a married sister. The husband had given her S7OO a few days before she left home, but most of this money is in an Oakland City, (Ind.) bank. Having lost her cheekbook Mrs. Kime was almost without resources when he discovered her hiding place. Love for an Old Sweetheart. She wore good clothes when she left Lome, but these had become badly eoiled In the two weeks, and he could hardly believe she was the same woman. She confessed to having left home because of her love for her girlhood sweetheart, John MaArnold, whom she was prevented from marrying by her family when she was Sixteen. McArnold later had married another woman and the latter had died, leaving him a ’ family of children to rear. Her love for him, she said, had caused her to abandon her Indiana home to join her former sweetheart tn Arkansas, She begged her husband with tears and kisses to return to bis old home and forget and forgive her. Went to -Settle” with His Rival. This so angered Kime that he decided to go to the farm of McArnold and “settle” with him. He procured a horse, and being well supplied with cash went to the farm of McArnold. He told him he was a stockman and wished a price on his calves. In the course of the conversation MaArnold became confidential with the supposed stockman and related to him bls trembles. telling of his loss of his wife a few months previously, and adding that just the week before, from the want of proper care, one of bls children had died. Listens and Becomes Convinced. He saiA that all he had, besides some worthless Arkansas land, was a few head of cattle on the farm. He felt bis loss so heavily that tears streamed down his face as be related the story of his life to the man who had come to avenge the wrong he had done to both himself and family. Disclosing his identity Kime suddenly bade the man who ruined bls Indiana home farewell, returned to Pinkney, where he again saw his wife, and bidding her farewell, started home. He will now sue for a divorce aud give bis wife the chance to wed her old love.