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IX*nedP-atinr,BdidheiT,iP-O.■e-otas?s,ayVeenVeotndndjr-uaes'adeltheonadHe111-Inds,Iindaidrer'■'A ■ nmm V'r . • ~Wife of Advance Wan For Carnival Company on War Path.Special to the LaPorte Herald.Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 14.—Mrs.Marie Albert of New Orleans has j traveled a thousand miles to force her husband, Prank L. Albert, general agent for Ferari Bros.’ Carnival company, to acknowledge her as his wife. Albert spent two or three |WER weeks in Michigan City this fall arranging for the appearance of the carnival company here and was here all during the week of the carnival.He was accompanied by a tall blonde pprfLcBwoman whom he introduced as his1wife. * pr0*#SjlHMrs. Albert arrived In Indianapolis I f Sunday and Bpent the day in seeking 0: aessttyvn.Information concerning her husband’s whereabouts. Sunday night she went on to Anderson. She learned that he had been in that city two months ago, promoting a street carnival. Mrs. Albert is a beautiful stately woman of 30. She Is said to have high social connections in New Orleans.In a valise that she carried were a number of proofs of her marriage to Albert at Algiers, Da., six years ago. There were New Orleans papers containing pictures of herself and her husband with stories to the effect that.,I ngrtheir marriage had been the result of a romantic love affair, followed by an elopement; pictures of the missing husband, the marriage certificate and letters of identification from New Orleans magistrates.“I have been hunting my husband for a year,” said Mrs. Albert. “I believe that I have him trapped at last.Wb Cham from to th€ April who 1Porte her h ty. 1 4, 19lt; 1904.husbaboth three legal custo montl W plain’ south Thlt;He can’t escape me now. Why do Ie s I want to find him? For several rea-1 cIsons. He has written me threatening I f.ng letters, saying that should I find him I ,cwe he would say that I was not his wife, ag^ex* I want to make him acknowledge me;I then I shall bring an action for di- 1 iad and iI vorce. I.I “He Is afraid of me. So are his avea y parents, who live in New Albany. ° ^ant They believe that I am going to kill 8j him if I find him. It Is not unusual,you know, for southern women to kille faithless husbands. But I told his ma^*85| mother. when I stopped off in New .... tes. ... .. ,. . .... 1 Ohlit. . Albany the other day, that he was _1 at . .. ,,,,, . . . . , Dunsnot worth killing. I want to be free _ wn # . . „ Fr1 from him. Ia Mrs. Albert tells a story that bub- y 08ami bleS °Ver heart ,nterest-an j Nine years ago she was a cashier at prontthe swell Grunewald hotel In New af i wr I I not1 Orleans. Albert was a frequent guest)rge 1 at the house. He had money anddiamonds.They fell in love. For three yearsthey corresponded.“When my parents objected to myRe- j marriage we only laughed at them., to-1 “Then we eloped, ilsh-1 “For five years we traveled. Mr. ting j Albert was engaged mostly in theat-the I rical enterprises. We were happy, was “A year ago I went back to New Paul Orleans and our baby was born. A lock month later my husband came to me. rap-11 insisted that he locate permanently was somewhere. He said he would. That ight is the last I saw of him. liam “Three months ago I learned that ition he had become advance agent for the ssor Ferari Bros.’ Carnival company and was traveling with another woman whom he claimed was his wife.“On June 7 he wrote me a threatening letter from the Claypool hotel in Indianapolis. He would come and take my baby away from me, he said.“My folks had money and I started out to find him. I came north two weeks ago with my baby, but the little one became ill and I was forced to go back and leave It with my mother. I’ve just returned. . When I do find him now he’ll realize what it means to desert a southern woman.”requMentheimaswereForisignForfirstaina-esig-andtary.andweretheA1injuagesanailislejure ball in I out braiheaijurechailegturchisandstrahasthalulaitheFI
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La Porte Weekly Herald
La Porte, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 15, 1904
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Debi P.
USA 29 Aug 2018
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