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TJC1Another Chapter in the FamonsFeud let on-CulIen Case.He lt;l.iiiiir* to Have Peon a Victim of a Fraudulent Divorce M ii3. and h Seeking lfewuiri*'/ t* Hory of th* Plvorv-% I low sal Whan s-cupul, J!!* Aft'wvvar I an 1I p to th i fr-4 til 11m -( Il-I., I JlH'. L.I.— A fptt.ftl' in 'i'« Y r«{ y* The victim of one tt.c frti iiiulont divorce milts In this■ l. i- : urt t • » - isrlb Una proprietor* of tt! It. 11- I* i less h person than v Unui . rendition, who, when ho irht hiss'i.v rt wu.^ mayor of F rt ■ -th, Tex. Thv men vrbo, It I* sail,’ t !j*_• di vnree were W. Iiurvr-rt U mrh**, i save he it a brother*in-law • f I 'nitedw,tvm AtloriUT iluilhoM. and I,utr:*-l£ H. niipLell, I»utli attorneys pra t tring In -rlty. It appear* that Him lt;h»omiiont u!fni*il to \ e ft divorce, nii• I for which .gtu-s (iitniihfli reeehtrd _’■* ’*, ba ' 'j*+ry. Tlx* furcary i# unnufwtltmhMe*■r “fth.m of JIugher with the pr t-whlch Mr, Pendleton does not tell, butwhich his friends assert is true, sod ha doe* not deny. Hi* youage* t child wai very 111. Tba doctor told him tost it would surely die in a few day*. Mr, Pendleton thought he would wait until after it* death before he told hit wife of the divorce. He resumed h!§ reildeuoe in the house, occupying a separate room from hi* wife. The child, Instead of dying in a few day*. Heed for teamouths, find th*? telling uboat the divorce was put offJi.tV AFTER IHY•In the meantime he was elected mayorLv n big majority.When the child died Mr. Pendleton showed hi* wife the divorce fhere his storybegin* again j . He thought thu divorcev as geuuaiu. There was no scene or anything of the Rind, and he quietly left Fort Worth and went to New Orleans, where he married the woman ho l ived. They took a trip. She returned to FortWorth before he did. The news of tbs marriage was made public and then i*iime the sensation. Mr. Pendleton didLot suspect that his divorce was fraudulent u11111 he rea l It m the paper* in the dispatch** from Chicago to the effect shat there was no record of the case th re. lie returned to Fort Worth to settle his btntlness affairs. Intending to l;ve down tlie talk that had beeu ere-sited. Ereo the dispatches is the paper* did not convince him that he had uot a legal divorce, and he refused to believethat ;t was illegal until he read thv interview thatHIE GAZETTE ULPORIEKhad with Hughes In this city. 11-* dllrut * in.oft* thv suit of his wife, and herLow. 11I WANT MY MONKY BACK.* ’There won’t be any trouble about that,1 * replied Hughes, raatnptly. **l urn willing to return my share. You know, he said, I thought that divorce was all right. 1 thought my Chicago correspondent was straight. He deceived me.Mr. I t-ndlctrm said, 14 expert penmen Miy that tho hand writing in Hie body of that divorce paper you gave to me and the hand writing of the letter from Campbell are the sojae. 1 thick that Campbell wrote the divorce. * • Hide t I show you a letter from our Chicago man about the dlvore? thatought to prove? that we were ail right and acting in good faith.attorney io King's county. He has been iu jail, but it WBia *t hi* fault. *1Mr. Campbell ’■ via) son departed,promising to return oe Monday with a copy of the divorce to that Mr. Campbell i could s*e whether or not the handwriting resembled hi* own.From CampbellT* office Mr. Fendleton sad the reporter went direct to Mr, Kcltht'a office iu the Pulitzer building. Hughe? recocoized Pendleton at once••Why, bow are you, Pendleton? he said cheerfully* f Hughes was very nervous.Finally Pendleton said: * ‘1 received aletter in September from Mr. Campbell. Of course you know of my trouble* fromthe papers.1 ** * I hadn ’t heard a word about u,said Hughes.“I’ve bad a lot of unpleasant notoriety,1 * said Pendleton. This miserable ! business baa ruined tue. I'm poor,• * I Ann ’ t remember vmir linr'rs shown
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Fort Worth Weekly Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 25, 1890
Page 9
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