Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1916 — MONTICELLO CONNUBIAL BLISS [ARTICLE]

MONTICELLO CONNUBIAL BLISS

Grand .Jury Breaks Up Happy Family of Two Men and Single Wife. Monticello, Ind., March 20.—Cupid's blindness and a grand jury’s discerning gaze have led to the estrangement of a happy Monticello family and today Mrs. Victor AllenWarfel is seeking refuge in flight with one of her alleged husband.-?, while the second mourns for the woman and the “other” man with whom he lived so contentedly until neighbors objected. Mrs. Allen-War-fel, who departed with Ray Warfel, is being hunted to face an indictment for bigamy. Victor Allen is caring for his two .children and relatives 'have two others. The husband’s resentment is directed toward the unfeeling grand jury, which broke up his home after he found his wife and took up his abode with her and her second husband. Allen married the woman about 2 0 years ago at Winamac and five children were born to them. Two years ago they became estranged and Mrs. Allen went to Nebraska City, Neb., where she married Warfel, without, obtaining a divorce from Allen, it is charged. She and Warfel came to Monticello two years ago to live. Not long afterwards Allen located his wife and, instead of causing trouble, seemed satisfied to have ! found his wife again. He wont to live in the Warfel home and the three lived happily until Wednesday, when it became known that they were objects of a grand jury inquiry. Warfel and thp woman fled without letting Allen know ,of their intentions.