The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-02-01
WIFE OR NO WIFE.
A Prominent Attorney Who
Denies That He u q
Husband,
While the women Insists that he
H.. and il the Father Of
Her Children.

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A prominent attorney Of Carthae,
named r. F. Buler, Who is known BY ses
eraI people Of Sedalia, has evidently &c
his loot in it, and thst pretty deep, toe
il the sworn testimony OF . woman clsim
ing to be his wife il to be credited, and q
far her evidence AMI the peculiar cIrcum
stances surrounding the case are in he
favor BY large majority. The woma'
ho claims TO b. his legal wifs il Mary F.
the daughter Of Peter Myers, Who is TO
only we'll known in Carthage ~ 1t ont
time 4 prominent banker. but s'so through
out the country.
Wa.at makes the matter of more INFER
eat and peculiar is that Buler repudiste'
her and pronounces her claims to hsvins
been married TO him fraud. LAST cum.
mer the defendant von and married q
prominent Cedar county lady.
The lady's statement. are plain and
straight forward and show, II che tell.
the truth. that . black and damnahle
wrong hiss been done her, and one that
would bring the blush of shame To the fsct
of any man, and tn. just indignation Of the
people upon his besd. 1t ia for the courts
to decide whether they we're married o,
not. but We give the vomsn's abatement a.
she gives It, believing that il vii! be of in
terest:
On the 2ld Of April, 1876, Mr.. Bale,
and Mi-a Myers took 8 buggy for Baxter
SPRING., he to attend 10 some business and
she to visit q cousin. They had heen en-.
Gagged to be married, but no date set.
Somewhere on the road between Spring
River and Shoal Creek, in Ksnss., Mr.
Buler drove up to log house, and, stop
ping. informed her thst in ca.e che CON-
scented, Q man lived there Who would % ar
~ them. To this she scquieeced. and they
we're then and there married, for which
Mr.. Buler paid the man who performed
the ceremony ten dollar bill.
From there they wen; 10 Baxter ard
took rooms ut hotel, he, ~ she claims,
treating her 10 ever. respect "a his legally
married wife and which she hone-tly be.
lieved she Vas From there they went to
the Gulf house, Fl. Scott, Ks... where the
same relationship excited between them.
From there Mr.. Buier sent her 10 Csnads,
paying her expenses. He afierw lrJs wrote
for her return and met her M "a man
would his wife" At his request the mar
riaee was kept . secret, but in time people
hogan to gossip. Buler then left Carthage
and shortly afterward notice appeared in
the 81. Louis Repub;ic,n announcing the
marriage Of X. F. Euler sni Hiss M,ry
+. Myers. some two years previous.
This vas half way surprise to the PEG
pie of Carthage and vicinity, bnt it had the
effect Of setting the go~-ips At rest. In the
the lady gave birth to two chill
dren, which everybody did end do recos-
nice - Buffers. Later Buler denied the
in toto, claiming that no such
had ever been performed.
Her testimony shows that such . cere-
mony had been performed, but whether By
. person legally authorized or not she does
not know; but If she has been duped there
will be q speedy day OF reckoning cure.
She decrites the place at which they we're
married very minute!y, and The Joplin pa.
pers think il will soon br identified.
Mrs. Buler gave her supposed husband
any thing but favorable ch srAc.er for man
|iness. In her te-, imOny she says: Ire
meeting SIR. Buler last fall iih,.
vas after he had shaken her); he said tina,
he desired to talk to me awhile. I laid
my hand upon his arm and he took his fist
and hit me on the chest. and - he pushed
BY told him he would get himseif into
trouble If he did not watch. I walked
along behind him, when he stsried and ran
rom me-" Shakespeare summing up of
he man Who will "i.y HE hand On woman
ave in kindness" will apply in this case.
II the poor girl bss been duped into
mock marriage and her ruin thus wrought,
here is no punishment severe enough for
he men who would he guilty If such
lsstardly deed. II, on the other hand, il
g blsckmailing scheme on her part, she
. evidently the cleverest woman in that
inc the BAzoo has heard of, and it has
,esrd of many.