The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-12-21
From Tuesdays Daily.
IDA'S TWO MARRIAGES.

The First Time, When Only
Twelve Years Old, to .
Vagabond,
AID Again On the Sd Day Of Do.
oember to jerome Green, in
This CITY.
Ga the 81 day Of December Mr.. Jerome
Green, . young man II years Of see, en-
pieysd - ieam.ler At Z.mmermso & Hsr.
Iers mill, Vas united in marriage, BY
'~qsire Fisker, 10 . cOm'ly young woman
sho gave the meme Of Ida S,odd.rd. Who
for the three months past had been en-.
ployed a. . domestic At the residence VI
Mr.. z mmerm 40.
Alter the ceremony Green took his bride
TO the residence Of bis psrenis. On zee,
second street. where they we're to maze
their home. The young woman vac &C
corded hearty welcome By Green's father
aod mother. and until yesterday
THEIR MARRIED LIFE
wss one Of bIiss. Sunday = dentist from
Versai!les, named Fry, arrived in S~dslis
in que-t of w0m en- named Mr.. Id. E..
.horr, who had formerly lived near Yer
ssilIes, on farm. and vho hsd lett her
hu-bsnd and four children, coming TO this
city, where he heard she had eng ,ged ~ .
domestic. Oh the four children Of whom
Mr.. Bsshour w.s the mother Dr.. Fry aud
wife had taken one to rsise, and il vas in
regard 10 the liule one Inst Mr.. Fry de.
sired 70 convene With Mrs. Bssaour. He
il quired srouni. and coon made the dis
covefy that the womsn vss in the city, but
hist she had been married To Jerome
Greer, having pas~ed Lereeli "a se . single
som.n He Immediately called a, the
residence Of Mr.. Green, ar, AMI iLquire,!
for
THE DOuBLY MARRIED WOMAN,
and VS. informed ihs' she and her husband
had gone "a Lsmcn,e ard would not re.
turn until Mond.y morning.
Desiring thsl h,s business might MT Be
wi-undesstossi, NJ. FRY informed the elder
Mrs. Green that he had called to converse
with her daugh,er.in-las in regard TO her
child, which be and his vile lad taken to
raise.
NV daughter in-lsw'sc child ~ exclaimed
Mrs Green. "Why, Lila has no childr'
Mr.. Fry informed her ih.i she vss mi--
taken, - Ida had not only one child. bu,
ga the mother Of four.
THIS OPENED THE EYES
o: the moiher-in-law. and sh. s.s all
anxiety for the newly welded couple to re
turn.
Yesterday morning they arrived on the
morning trsin sDd imm-dixtely ssari~d for
home. Az they were walking down O.sge
street, Mr.. Fry, Who hsd remained over,
erpied them ana starting on bri-k walk
overlook them Just before they hs1 reached
home.
He spoke TO Nrs. Green, Who recognized
hin, in . minute and introduced him to
her huso,nd. They conferred for f~~
minutes. the husband being s;mo.t b~wil-
dered ut
THE DEVELOPMENTS.
A. Mr.. Fry was compelled To leave on
the train, he could not rem sin but . brief
period. and Jerome and ID. went into the
house, where s,iIl further developments
we're 10 greet the husband.
The moiher-in-lav informed Ida of what
had bern told her. and requested her In tell
the truth ss TO the story. Bur-,ing into
iears the unhappy woman Acknowledged
tina, whai NJ. Fry had aid s.s true. She
ss,d she knew che had done wrong ~ keep
ing the facts from her husband, but her
great love for him, and fear Of de.esi,on
should she reveal all, vas her only reason
for
PRAcrICISG THE DECEPTION.
After bearing all the facts in the case
from hia wife. jerome Informed her that
he would at once 90 to Versailles and ese
her people. The she acquiesc-d in, and At
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon he starred on
HE surrey ,sspscting torerurn this evening.
This morning BAzo0 reporter called 1t
the Green residence aud Wa met BY Mr..
Green. the elder, Who invited him in.
When asked a TO the whereabouts Of her
.ushier.in-Ia~, she said she Vas in the
other room. With this remark che called
her and che 1t Once made her appearance.
TIE r~porier had With him copy Of the
Sed.li. Democrat, wherein publication cf
the sf.ir vas made. THE he presented
and asked her il the facts therein Get forth
we're true.
TIE ELDER MRS. GREEN
reed the article through, and YES inter
rup'ed every once in . shi'e BY Ids, Who
would re@ssk, "Thsis . Iie."
At the conclusion, che consented 70 tell
her siory, which - ~ follow:
Her pAren's, named S,oddard. live 90 .
farm near Versailles. Nine ye,rs ego,
when only twelve ye.rs of age, she vas
married 10 Isaac B.shour, ten years her
senior. For . time they lived happily. bu,
her husband soon beesn 10 drink and then
reg ec,e6 her, and her life vas made mis-
~r.ble- she has four children, the eldest
eight yeara old and the youngest three. In
October, 1879.
enc LEFT her HUSBAND,
his conduct being UNDESIRABLE. She then
vent to live With her parents. where she re-
msioed until March. o. her four chill.
dren, the eldest 10 10 Illinois, another il