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PENDLETON’S STORYAnother Chapter in the Farnoas Peiidletnn-Cullen Case.lie * laim? to llLirc llcon a Victim of Fraudulent Divorce andla Stoking Ifevcn^e.*ll« Hory of if?rt rivorr-% l!«w r.nl When vrur*fl, J:i» Movmumts Alt**war I an 1Ip la the I*r«4;ii! lime-SKKKISi; UCVK.WE.( i lt;3:t,, I)i*n. LA. — A tpct.ftl1 in NVw V rk ja y* Thu victim of one tin* fru'jwii!lt;*nl divorce milts In this . ha* run Im * iirtil tho j roprict ora ofTn Jt. I!-* JU i n less u titr tiii thou. I; la in s, Pendleton, wha, when beAht iiti divorce, was mayor or Fortr! fi * Tib tnrit who. It il sal I,t 1 !i l* di vnro- were W. J urvea If tiirli,' stive he it a brother-in-law • f I nit** I i.tvi Attorney iF.uberf, and Pui-«k 31. .mpbell, butb attorneys pro tnog iti ■ city. ItnpiiAnr-itli.it the it.icmijont to 1e n illvorei*, and for which,trhea X ( 4in|iUi-ll r**eot*'*nI i» af -^ry. The for^nrr ie UQhueittonhhie., i n of J!uRho* with the pro-which Mr. l*endle;on does not tell* butwhich hia friends assert is true, and he does not deny, His youugtst child wai very III. The doctor toli him taat it would surely die in a few days. Mr, Pendleton thought he would wait until after its death Is fore be told his wife of the divorce. He resumed bis residence ;□ tbs house, occupying a separate room from bis wife. The child, Instead of dying in a few days, lived for tea mouths, and the telling about the divorce was put offPAT AFTER PAT.In the meantime he was elected mayorby a big majority.Whvn the child died Mr, Pendletaa ■ bowed hi# wife the divorce (her©his story begins again ;. He thought thu divorce was geuuate. Thera was no scene or anything of the fciod, nud be quietly left Furl Worth and went to New Orleans,where he married the woman ho loved.They took a trip. She returned to Fort Worth before ha did. The news of the marriage was made public and then c une the sensation. Mr. Pendleton did Lot 6u?pect that his divorce was fraudulent until he real it m the papers in the ‘dispatches from Chicago to the effect (that there was no record of the caeo Hi re. IJt? returned to Fort Worth to settle hi* business affairs, intending to live down the talk that had beeu ere- ’ filed. Krt?D the dispatches in the papers ,did not convince bnn that he bad not n ,i cal divorce, and be refused to believe that it was illegal until he read the interview that {THE GAZETTE IlLPORTEIi {had with Hughes in thin elty. I!*' dll ,r - . • I r ■ 1 — v 1 li n r ■ ■ i I r■. f A. • or - T .1 It W . , I l.lIP
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Fort Worth Weekly Gazette
Fort Worth, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 25, 1890
Page 9
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