Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-09-14
your Honor, and YOU can not place

S1uips wa hii'o w WIZ "ASs
She stopped in the midst of a hys-
terical outburst, and gasped, "Oh,
was driven to it; couldn't help it.
That man is a professional gambler.
He has beaten Inc and / have felt
hunger and cold hundred times.
He made life intolerable to me, and
1 could bear it no longer She went
went ON in half intelligent words to
describe some outrage that Conalin
had perpetrated upon her when she
was ill, but she broke down and fell
into another convulsive fit of weep
ing. Mr.. Buscaren considerably
picked up vial that had fallen from
her hands and urged her to take the
medicine. He then read the statute
covering bigamy, suggesting that the
bail be fixed at 81 900. He had prac-
ticed law in Missouri, he said, and
he went on to describe the penalties
that the crime called for in that
State. His Honor fixed the bail at
$4,000 in each case, and the lady
and gentlemen were led down stairs
to separate cells.
A reporter visited Mrs. Conalin
shortly afterward and found that she
had not recovered from her attack OF
hysteria. She is quite all attractive
looking woman, with fine figure and
features, but impresses one as being
without any more judgement thau
child. 81 will tell you all about it,"
she said tearfully. 1t seemed to re-
lieve her to talk. II married Mr..
Conalin ten years ago in Kansas City.
We have five children, and two are
now living. For eight years he
abused me continually. We lived
for awhile at Fort Scott, Kansas, and
he kept up his prosecutions there al
so. Judge Stewart of Kansas City,
can tell now l suffered, for he drew
up bill of divorce for me once. Mr..
Curtis, of the Metropolitan Hotel
knows that Mr.. Conalin had beaten
me repeatedly. My husband, you
know, was gambler, and often he
would spend the night in debauch
and then come to my room and bea+
me. l can't recollect how often
l forgave him, and l even concealed
him when the police were after him il
t Kansas City. He accused me of in
, fidelity, and when l was stopping a
the Metropolitan Hotel, last June, h
said that / was criminally intimate
with Mr.. Buscaren. When Mr.
t Buscaren heard this he told me tina
he would prove his intentions b,
marrying me. l asked a lady frien'
I for advice, and she SAID: OF course
f marry him, and show that gamble
4 that you can marry somebody else.
= l left Kansas City June 19, and wen
d to my mothers house in st. Louis
J. From there l went to Mexico, Mo.
e and Mr.. Buscaren joined me, and W
4 were married June 30. We came t
e Chicago, and have lived quietly her
Y ever SINCE"
J. The lady was terrified at the ide
V of spending the night in the station
/. She said that she had a brothe
# named Jesse Singley living here, an
IS she had hopes that he would assist hel
il Mrs. Conalin confirmed her husband
J. statement that she had travelled fo
ir nearly two years with the Maggi
It Mitchell troupe and that she was
l. vocalist of some ability. She shove
e notices from the Kansas City papers
V describing in complimentary term
e her appearance at charity concerts
:. The papers spoke of her as ''Mis
}. Conalin." She explained this b
e saying that for several months bt
h fore her flight she occupied room
d alone at the Metropolitan Hotel, ha,
+ ing declined to live any longer wit
l. her husband. After flight he al
d piled for a divorce, and the suit
= now pending. Her son, she sait
d was at Holdbrook, and her little 81
ID she had taken with her. The mel
ton of her children threw her bac
D. into her agitated condition, and
l. was impossible to get her to add an.
in thing farther to her disjointed stat
s. ment. Passing along the tier .
" cells tie reporter carght glimpse {
10 Oscar Buscaren. The hero of Il
Is elopement was reclining on the sto1
If bench looking as melancholy as Han
e. let, and not more cOmmunlcatlv
m He was lawyer, and when asked
+, he had any statement to make b
to professional secretiveness prompte
Or him to say, 'None whatever.
u Frank Dougherty, hotel clerk
Louisiana, shot and killed himse
L. last week because his girl went bat
u on him. If she had known he W,
a such a fool she would have gol
1e back on him sooner than she did.
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order to do SO we must have all mo-
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