Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-08
OSCAR, DEAR"
A Kansas City Scandal Reaches a
Climax IN Chicago.
A Loving Couple in the Tolls Of the Law
The Injured Husband Festive Gam
bler-The Truant Wife an
Actress.
TRIO OF TOUGH CITIZENS.

CHICAGO. September 7.-Following is the
Chicago end of Kansas City scandal which
has formed one of the main topics of inter.
est to the newspapers OF that city for a
month Mr.. John Conallin, the injured
husband, was seen by reporter yesterday,
and his version of the story learned. Mr..
Conallin, although the proprietor OF a
gambling house, is rather fine looking
gentleman, and the Kansas City papers
speak well of his business probity and do
mestic integrity and lavish kindness to his
wife and family. Mr.. Conaliin says that
he married the woman, whose name was
Georgiana Singley, October ODD, 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. His 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 Chas. Kehlo,
of Logansport, Ind, now the United States
consul to Sidney, New South Wales. With
Kehlo she went from Fort Scott to st. Louis,
staying with him there under an assumed
name. Growing tired Of her, Kehlo sent
her to Chicago with letter Of credit to one
of the clerks of the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Kehlo soon afterward refused to pay any Of
her bills, and so she wrote to her husband,
stating that she
Had Done Nothing Wrong,
- Il
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 a singer, for which she was well
qualified, having an excellent voice. Dur
ing 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 re.ched Kansas City
on their route. She was tired and sick, and
he took her home. They boarded at the
Metropolitan Hotel, and Bouscaren took
up his abode at the same place last spring.
He became acquainted with the woman, but
nothing suspicious was mott cd until he
had been there q couple of months. Then
Mr.. Conallin noticed that his wife was in
the habit Of
Going to Bousearen's Rooms
at night, and walking with him to isolated
places. Early in June, but not at the same
time, Bouscaren and Mrs. Conallin left the
hotel, the former stating that he was going
to ST. Louis. But they met on the road
somewhere, and proceeded to Mexico, Mo-,
where they were married by Rev. DIR. Stod-
dert. Keeping her husband in ignorance
of this, she returned to him at Kansas City,
staying with him there until June l9, when
she left. OF course Mr.. Copallin endeavor-
ed to find their tracks He heard Of the
marriage at Mexico, and first went there
and collected the evidence u be used in
the divorce case and the suit for bgamy
which he was sure must follow. He traced
them to st. Louis, Kentucky, Cincinnati,
and finally to Chicago, where it seems they
stopped at the Commercial Hotel from
August s to August 10, and afterward
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- IneIr Arrest was Effected
Yesterday by Central Station detectives.
Oscar Bouscaren, the alleged ,paramour, IS
a Kentuckiaan, and claims to be lawyer.
His brother is a prominent citizen OF the
same State, and the chief engineer OF the
Cincinnati Southern railway. 1t is SAID
that relations between these brothers are
not altogether pleasant, the engineer feel
ing keenly the disgrace put upon the iami'
Mrs, Copallin is a fine-looking woman,
beautiful singer. and well-known in the So
cIety of the cities in which she has lived.
She has disguised her appearance in Chica-
go by means of blonde wig, her hair being
naturally black. Mr.. Conallin says that al
the acquaintances OF himself and family
will bear out the statement that he treated
her with uniform kindness, lavishing mon.
ey upon her, indulging her extravagant
notions to the full, and never beating her
or using her at all cruelty, as she alleges.
An Indictment for Bigamy
Is pending against Bousc1ren and Mrs. Con-
allin at Kansas City. There was quite
sensational scene in the South Side Police
Court yesterday afternoon when Detectives
Elliott and Wiley led the prisoners before
Justice Wallace. Mrs. Conalin presented
the very picture OF weak.minded misery.
my God" she moaned, wringing her
hands, while the tears streamed down her
face, what can doT" Her body swayed
to and fro and in a voice choked with sops
she kept moaning some incoherent words
that sounded like mercy, mercy IL was
so incongruous a thing to see an actress
Giving vent 10 real sorrow in the old ster-
iotyped stage way that her grief did not
make as deep an impressioBas one would
naturally suppose Her lover, Mr.. Oscar
Bouscaren, was very calm and collcc.oj,
but the repeated sobs OF his Companion
seemed to ouch him, and his eyes looked
red the next moment, when he took his
hand awav. Next 10 him stood
The Deserted Husband,
q redish.faced man, with short gray hair,
and gray mustache and imperial. He pre-.
sented contrast to his rival, who looked
scarcely more than %, b!ack-bearded and
olive-skinned, with a melancholy expires.
sion Of countenance.
A reporter visited Mrs. Conallin shortly
afterward, and found that she had not re-
covered from her attack OF hysteria. She
is quite an attractive-looking woman, with
fine figure and features, but impresses one
as being without any self.control whatever,
and without any more judgment than q
child. 81 will tell you ali about 1t, she
said teorfully. Ii seemed to relieve her to
talk. II married Mr.. Conallin ten years
ago in Kansas City. We have five children,
and two are Bow living. For eight years
he abused me continually. We
Lived for Awhile nj Fort Scott, Kan,
and he kept up his prosecutions there also.
Judge Stewart, of Kansas City, can tell how
| have suffered, tor he drew up bill OF di-
yorce for me once. Mr.. Curtis, OF the Met.
ropolitan hotel, knows that Mr. COnalin ba]
beaten me repeatedly. My husband, you
know, was gambler, and often he would
spend the night in a debiuch, and then
come to my room and beat me. can't
recollect how often forgave him, and
even concealed him when the police were
sfter him in Kansas City. He accused me
Of iDfidelity. and when / was stopping at
the Metropolitan horei, last June he siid
that I was criminally intimate with Mr..
Rnuscaren. when Mr. Bouscaren' heard
this, he told me that he would prove his
intentions were honorable by marrying me.
/ ssked lady friend for advice. and she
said: of course, marry him, and show that
gambler that you can marry someone else
left Kansas City. June l9, and went to my
mothers house in ST. Louis From there
Went Co Mexico, No.,
and Mr.. Bonscren joined me and We were
married June % We came to Chicago and
-. LID .,r,intIr- hnra aver since ~