Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-09-14
RRACE OF BIGAMISTS.
A Chicago Chapter in Kansas City
and Mexico Scandal.
How Oscar Buscaren Was Brought to
Grief.

low Oscar Buscaren Was Brought to '
Grief.
From the Chicago Times, Sept. G.
This is the Chicago end of Kan
sas City and Mexico scandal which
mas formed one the main topics of
interest to the newspapers OF that
supurb for month. Mr.. John Con-
alin, the husband, was seen by
for the Times yesterday, and
his version of the story learned. Mr..
Conalin, although the proprietor of
a gambling-house is rather fine-look-
ing gentleman, and the Kansas City
papers speak well of his business
probity and domestic integrity and
lavish kindness to his wife and family.
Mr.. Conalin says that he married the
woman, whose name was Georgiana
Singley, October %, 1872. Both
were living at that time in st. Louis.
They removed thence to Fort Scott,
and more than two years ago took
up their residence at Kansas City.
Her family was poor and rather low
in the social scale, but she was rather
brighter than the rest of them. Five
children have been born to them, of
whom but two are living. Her first
indiscretion of which he knows was
in 1879, when she went off with
Charles Kahlo, of Logansport, Ind,
now the United States Consul to Sid
ney, New South Wales. With Kahlo
she went from Fort Scott to st.
Louis, staying with him there under
an assumed name. Growing tired of
her, Kahlo soon afterward refused to
pay any of her bills, so she wrote to
her husband stating that she had done
nothing wrong and only came to st.
Louis to study music. He, ignorant
of the true state of the case, sent her
some money, and she induced him to
allow her to join the Maggie Mitchell
troupe as singer, for which she was
well qualified, having an excellent
voice. During the early part of their
matrimonial career he had sent her to
Boston to study music for thirteen
months. She was with the Mitchell
company for five months and left
them when they reached Kansas City
ON their route. She was tired and
sick and he took her home. They
boarded at the Metropolitan Hotel,
and Buscaren took up his abode al
the same place last spring. He be-
came acquainted with the woman:
but nothing suspicious was noticed
until he had been there couple Of
: months. Then Mr.. Conalin noticed
that his wife was in the habit of 60
ing to Buscaren's rooms at night, anC
walking with him to isolated places
Early in June, but not at the sam,
time, Buscaren and Mrs. Conalin lef
: the hotel, the former stating that h
was going to st. Louis. But the,
met on the road somewhere, and pro
ceeded to Mexico, Mo-, where the,
l were married by Rev. DR.. Stoddert
e Keeping her husband in ignorance o
r this, she returned to him at Kansa
City, staying with him there unit
e June 10, when she left. Of course
i Mr.. Conalin endeavored to find thei
: tracks. He heard of the marriage a
e Mexico, and first went there and col
t lected the evidence to be used in tn
!, divorce case and the suit for bigam,
+; which he was sure must follow. III,
: traced them to St. Louis, Kentucky
e Cincinnati, and finally to Chicago
Il where, it seems, they stopped at tn
n Commercial Hotel from August 8tl
b to August 10, and afterward move'
= to No. SO North Clark Street. Hear
ing of this he procured necessary pa
pers, and their arrest was affecte'
yesterday by Central Station detec
: tives. Oscar Buscaren, the allege
o. paramour, is a Kentuckian, an
y claims to be lawyer.
Il Mrs. Conalin is fine looking VIC
h man, beautiful singer. and well
known in the society of the cities i
which she has lived. She has dis
guised her appearance in Chicago b
s means Of a blonde wig, her hair bein
# naturally black. Mr.. Conalin say
S that all the acquaintance of himsel
Z and family will bear out the state
. ment that he treated her with uniforl
" kindness, lavishing money upon he1
d indulging her extravagant notions t
a the full, and never beating her G
It using her at all cruelty, as she a
leges.
" An indictment for bigamy is pend
e, ing against Buscaren and Mrs. Cor
is alin at Mexico. There was quite
: sensational scene in the South Sid
g Police Court, yesterday afternoon
. when detectives Elliot and Wiley lie
70 the prisoners before Justice Wiley
ir Mrs. Conalin presented the very pi.
,r ture of weak-minded misery. ''M
te Cod" she moaned, wringing he
- hands, while the tears streame
70 down her face, "what can / do?
Her hndx, auorod m op1 fro ond