Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-06-17
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The following, which we clip from
the Atlanta Herald of Thursday morn
ing, appeared.originally in the Macon
STAR
Some time during the latter part of
last October, Mr.. Sturm being in the
employ of u well known Louisville
liquor house. came to our city on bus.
mess for his firm, leaving at the time
wife and two children at the Nation
al Hotel in that city. In the business
capacity of travelling agent for his
house, he was necessarily required to
prolong his absence from the loved
ones ut home several weeks. in the
meantime communicating with his
wife in the most aflectionate manner.
Some time in the month of December
member of the firm, by whom Mr.
Sturm is employed, called upon Mrs.
Sturm at the hotel, aud after announc
ing that he had some bad news to
convey thus very much alarming her,
for she then expressed fear that some
accident had befallen her husband)
drew forth paper stating that he had
been delegated by her husband to OBJ
tain her signature to it. This docu-
ment proved to be u paper giving COM
sent for an application of divorce, and
Mrs. Sturm indignantly refused to put
her name TO it, and at the same time
demanded to know where majo Sturm
was, and, for the first time, heard that
he was in the city, stopping at the
Gait House. Thus, without any rup-
ture or any unpleasantness whatever,
and without the remotest idea that her
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was Mrs. Sturm for the first time APP
prised of any such intention on her
| husbands part. Up to that very hour
they had lived on the most amicable
| terms, and not until Major Sturm
called, would the unwilling wife be-
lieve that her husband could be in
! earnest. OF the meeting between the
husband and We will say nothing, A
week or ten days at farthest from that
| date, Major Sturm appears in Indian
apolis, Ind, and proceeds to sue for q
| divorce. In order to institute suit he
swore (the affidavit is at this time in
| Macon,) that he did not know the
| whereabouts of his wife, not having
| heard of her in three months. He
also swore that he was then resident
of the county in which indianapolis
is located, and that he had been bona
! fde resident OF the county for six
months aud of the State greater
| length OF time. He also swore that
| his wife had but Que child.
In couple of months orso after that
| time, Sturm married in our city, and
his first wife, through her relatives,
| proceeded to inquire into his right to
wed another while she lived. This
| investigation eliminated in his arrest
| in this city on a warrant issued by
Justice Heath on Saturday last, and
| the grand jury being in session, he was
arraigned before that body yesterday
and true bill found against him for
| bigamy. The facts before the grand
jury show that Major Sturm never was
a resident of the State of Indiana,
either for long or short period; that
when he swore that he did not know
his wife's whereabouts, and had not
seen her for three months, he had not
been away from her more than week
or ten days, and that when he swore
to having but one child, he had then
two living and two dead.
These are the facts of the case, as we
have obtained them from an entirely
authentic and unmistakably reliable
source, and we present them to the
public, nothing extenuated nor aught
set down in malice" Certainly, we car
wish to do no harm to the accused ,anC
shall be proud TO know that he has
vindicated himself against these damn
able charges.
Mrs. Sturm, will, we learn, arrive in
this city from Knoxville in few days
where she proposes remaining unit
her husband is brought to trial. In
the mean time, Major S. is out on bail
and in this connection it may not be
amiss to state that Judge Hill is very
much censured, because of his placing
the bond at the low figure of one thou
sand dollars. Mrs. l.. p. Bowdre anC
DR.. A. P. Collins are entered in sure
ties on the bond.