Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-05-04
The Ei0W man.TOm IiRs0n Scandal n
Memphis,

which all readers oil the APPEAL will readily
recall, is the one in which Mics Buckner per
sonally figured. On Tue.dsy che related for
the first ime her history OF the scandal that
stirred Louisville a lew years ago and
separated her and her husband. At least
this is the FIRST time a statement from her
has ever reached type. She says she was not
permitted 10 utter word st the time. She
spoke freely aud without hesitation. saying
that only her former husbands version Of
the case hsd been heard. In brief, this is
Der realistic romance: Il was married when
not seventeen years old TO Wiliism II. Tom
Ensop, Of this place. He vas not twenty
one. My mother protested and remonstrattd
with me, but 10 no avail. l WAS educated at
Nazareth Academy, in this State, snd had
spent good portion Of my short single life
in a convent. | was a mere child in age, and
not more so In experience. We were married
IN 1876, and removed 10 Louisville,
where nay husband engaged in the whole
sale grocery business with his father
and first cousin, Stanley Bowmsn. NJ
husband foon became dissatisfied, and neg
lected me for other women. Oae of his es-
cspades was TO go up TO Bsrdstown, and.
passing himself off for single man, engage
himself to beautiful and innocent girl,
who, when she learned that he was married
man, fsinled and came near dying. Her
father searched for Tomlinson, but the hotel
keeper hurried him oul of town. My bus
baud keot mistre sses, and not alone in Louis
vile. r turning home one day, found
him in my own bed with 10Y nurse, a mulatto
girl. l bore all this. His mother made me
as miserable as possible, and l want TO say
that she is the meanesl woman in America
to-day. In April, 1879, took drive over
to Corydon, Ind, i.b Stanley Bowman, with
my husbands know edge. We left in the
morning at z O'Clock, and returned at s
o'clock that evening. We had come cham
payne at the hotel in Corydop, bat did moth
ing worse. As TO my husband having me
sh dowed 10 an assignatlou house, it is all
false. When his mother and father heard
OF my trip TO C)rydoD, they persuaded him
to leave me. He came, and cried and
whined like an idiot, and on the night ef
May 5, 1879, he said We nust part, ard l
left for my old home in Mississippi. This
wss some time after took the trip to Cory
don. The papers did not print the scandal
until about two weeks after the sepsra-
ton. Ny husband kept my child, and in a
few weeks wrote for me 10 come back and see
my baby. He met me at Memphis and &C.
cupied the same room with me. NY mother
was along. The Memphis Avalanche sf'er-
ward wrote up the meeting, and proved by
the hotel people that ne met me as my bus-
band. He wanted 10 have complete recon-
ciliation, but his parents forbade it. 1 lived
quiet and secluded life part of the time in
Drummondvilte. Canada. When we fret
separated the Tomlinsous took half Of my
own j7welry aud some Of my clothing. Ny
husband took the notes that had been given
ne as my ircsme from my Southern home
and had them discounted add pockete The
money. They treated me outrageously.
Finally We were divorced, the Court giving
nv late husband the custody of our child.