Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-11-01
CHE SihtsaI gepHtlitan.
DALLAS. SATURDAY NOV.l.
SEQUEL TO a KANSAS TRAGEDY.


New York, October 8.-Six years
ago j. 9. Hoke. who was tlen q
wealthy and prosperous lumber nerch-
hnt id Atchlsoh, Kansas, married a
Miss Leland, who resided in the samo
town. For Eve years they lived
happily together, and during that time
b child was born. A man named w.
w. Marbourg, who had been bis
sehoolmate Ia youth and the close
companion Of bis early manhood's years
had been a constant and welcome
visitor in the house. In all those
years, believing implicitly in the love of.
his wife and honor Of his friend, ne
never expected anything wrong until
JanpaIy last. when circumstances coa-
Vineed him that there was criminal
intimacy existing betweea Marbourg
and his wife. AS soon as he became
satisfied Of this, he armed himself, and
meeting Marbour in the street, shot
him down. A short time previous to
Ahis his wife left on a visit to the
East, taking With her their child.
Hoke was indicted for the atteu pied
murder, and allowed to go at large on
bail. He waited some time for the
return Of his wife, and then began
one of the most extraordinary searches
for child on record. When his wife left
che told him she was going to Angola,
i'm the State Of New York, and there
after, providing himself with sufficient
funds, he made his FIRST viait. Here
his worst suspicious were confirmed,
for he found that she had not been
there at all. Going back to Atchison,
he commenced the search. For over
six months, through every State in the
Union and all over Canada, he sought
his lost and loved child. Here and
there he found traces Of his wife, who
vas accompanied by her mother and
the child, and who took every possible
means to disguise themselves 30 that
he would not be able to track them.
I'm his iourneying to Canada, he found
chat his wife aAd Marbourg had been
there. He could find NO further trace.
Wearied and dispinted with the terri-
ble search, in which he had travelled
ever $4,000 miles. be arrived in Brook
lyn. As he had done in every other place,
he spent his time travelling through
the streets, eagerly scanning the face
other child that looked like his lost
darling In hopless search yesterday
afternoon he happened to pass down
WilIoughby street. He had o habit
of looking at the windows Of oil the
houses as he passed. As he passed
the house Of number 123 Willeughby
steeet, he almost tainted at behOlding
his child at the window in the rooms
Of Mrs. g. G. Leland, his nother-in>law.
Smotbering his impatience, he hurried
90 the Sheriff's Office and made a
sworn complaint, and obtaining che
assistance of deputy Sheriff and
special badge FOR himself, he vent to
the house where he had seen the child.
Is was in the arms Of his mother-in>
law, who made q desperate resistance
bnt Of course they succeeded in getting
possession.
This morning, through his counsel,
Mr.. Hoke made a motion before
Judge Gilbert for the possession of the
child, and the story related above
came out. The hearing was set down
for to morrow, the custody of tha
child, in the mean time, being awarded
70 the Sheriff. Mr.. Hoke has not
seen his wife since she left him, and he
says, knowing that she loves another
man better than she loves him, does
not want to see her but he will have
his child at the cost of his life, if
necessary.