The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-26
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pe-s. The L-avsnw0rih Times .i
5unda, aud rurrday produces ,b,
TIienIars OF . highly sen>aIiona
xp0se 0f an intsigue beiweri
Jadgr j L I,endrry, liwyer o,
considerable rrpu'c, aud Mr.. Me-
NuIty, - widowed d4ngifer at f
81 nslry, President OF he K ,lisl.-
l. urancs Company.
f "n The =. v-taI accounts publish
ID. Is c obtain the iolion ing partic
u'ars OF the inie'estiug aud all alb
-o'bing scandal ih high lie.
he yer vigilant reporter inter
views Mr. Hensley, who makes the
following statement:
l Rave daughter who was. mar
Cied a number of years since TO a
Mr.. McNulty. They moved to Gal.
ifornia, where, after a number of
years, McNalty died. He left nv
daughter widow with two chill
dren, boy and girl. | brought
Mrs. HcNulty home, gave her a
property, home adjoining my own
residence. have supported her
aud her children. For some
moaths back theSvisits Of this man
Peudery have been of such fire.
quency as to arouse my suspicions
that all was not as it should be be-
tween him and my daughter, Mrs.
McNnlty. a few weeks since nv
suspicious were confirmed by. re-
ceiying q number of letters from
my grandson, which he said his
mother had received from Pendery.
Upon reading the letters / discov-
cred that they were in the hand
writing of Pendery, and their con-
tents confirmed my worst fcars. I
wrote letter to Mr.. Pendery, de.
handing that he should make some
reparation for the injury which he
had done, and that he cease his WIS.,
its and attentions TO my daughter.
In reply, received very insult
ing letter charging me with crime
in obtaining the letters, and de-
manded that they be returned to
their rightful owner within "fiye
days" The letters were written
from Washington, ID. g., and cover
a space of several weeks. Pendery
has becnin Washington during the
winter. L then threatened 10 pub
lish the letters, and yesterday made
arrangements with Col. Houston, of
the Commercial, to have them pub
lished in this mornings paper. l
received the following letter from
Mr.. Pendery, which explains itself:
LEAvENwoRTH,K As., March, 1875.
have just learned You contem-
plate publishing sOLae letters pnr-
porting to have been written by me
to your daughter. Before you take
this step will you not consider the
great injustice you are about to do
a good woman? ! therefore request
that as the Commercial intends to
publish them in the morning You
grant an interview with her and
myself l will receive reply to
this, hope, stating the time l will
call at her house If You please.
Yours, j. l.. PENDERY.
TO this note l replied that 1 would
not see him, and that if he came to
the house l would fill him with
shot. Not desiring to kill the "poor
devil" went TO the grocery and
got a lot of fine bird shot, with
which l loaded my gun. In the
evening, after dusk, l learned that
he was III my daughters house. / t
got my gun and laid siege. Il
shoot him when he came out. He |
was considerably frightened would |
come TO the door, stick out his |
head and then jump back. Finally
he concluded that the coast was
clear, and ventured out. He start
ed on dog-trot, when / pulled on |
him. The cap missed, fire, and !
Pendery swung his cane and bel
lowed, Il am not afraid of ou." Ii
pulled the other barrel on him. He
went down, and in his great haste |
broke his cane and smashed his |
plug hat. lie disappeared in q |
flash.
The Times of Tuesday devotes
several columns TO the publication |
OF what purports to be letters from !
Judge Pendery TO Mrs. McNnlty. |
They are full of "nest-hiding" and !
$50, so, dear father" expressions. |
They were written from Washing
ton, where Mr.. p. has sojourned |
during tho winter.
Mrs. McNulty claims that the
missivcs, said to have been written |
by Pendery to her containing his |
amorous declarations and feelings, !
she knows nothing of; that she has
seen nothing of them, and that
Hensley must have purloined them |
from the letter box. She also
states that in order TO get her mail |
at all she was obliged to hire box |
in the post office, and although |
since the time of getting the post |
office box she has received letters, !
none of them have been from PEN |
derry. Mrs. Hensley, her step moth
er, she says, is her bitter enemy,
and has done all in her power to |
iniure her name, and cast shadows !
of suspicious on her character, but |
she does not think she has succeed |
ed /; that she thinks Mrs. Hensely |
has not made herself any friends by
her actions, or her Mrs. McNulty) |
any enemies. Mrs. H., she says,
has been loud in talking against
ucIy anu udS COiSlEucu ACE SEeTy
action into something wrong; that
the other evening she went, about
6 o'clock, to visit lady friend in
another part of the city, taking her
little girl with her, and returning
about s o'clock, and Mrs. Hensley
had circulated the report that she
had gone to meet Pendery, when
the truth was that she had not seen
him since his return from Washing
ton.
Judge Pendery also emphstically
denies having written any letters to
the lady, and that the statements of
Mr.. Hensley are not false ia every
particular. We shall probably see
whether he tells the thruth or not.
Democrats have nominated Arfh-
ur u. Barrett for Mayor of ST.
Y