The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-23
NAUGHTY DISS DEBAR,
The Alleged Husband Of the
spirituaIistio Fraud.
HIS PARKERsBURG RECORD
And His Marriage to West Union
Lady. Who is Still Living in Phil.
adelphia-How He Met Ann
oDeIia "Diss Dcbar."

PHILADELPHIA, April 22.-"Geneial'
Joseph Diss Debar, the alleged HUSBAND
of the notorious Nine. E, Diss Debar
who has been mystifying the New YorE
public by her peculiar influence ovel
the aged Luther b. Marsh, turns out t.
be the husband Of respectable matror
tiiving at SIS Morris street, this city.
Her name is Mrs. Debar, and she was
the daughter of well-to-do people by the
name of Caine, in West Union, bod
bridge county, W. Va. She married Mr.
Diss Debar at that place, and went to
live with him at Parkersburg, She was
his second wife, the first one being the
daughter of wealthy Cincinnati mer-
chant named Levasseur.
Mrs. Debar says she and her husband
lived happily at Parkersburg until he
became interested in the sale Of oil lands
and had occasion to go to New York
during the negotiations. Soon after his
return from Manhattan a stylish dressed
young woman came to the hotel in Par
keBburg. She passed as Mrs. Wynal, n
rich young widow bent on oil specula-
ton, and made practice of coming to
the house every day, Mr.. Diss Debar
having an Office in the hotel where he
lived.
In the course Of the developments Mr..
Diss Debar had room fitted up for the
rich widow in the house, explaining to
his wife it would be to their advantage
to have Mrs. Wynal with them.
Mrs. Debar grew very suspicious,
when the husband, finding it necessary
to attempt n coup d'etat, made a startling
confession that Mrs. Wynal was daugh-
ter by his first wife, whom he claimed
to have married before Miss Levasseur,
making Mrs. Debar aware for the first
time that she was the third wife instead
OF the second.
Mrs. Wynal said her name was Editha,
and insisted on all the family calling her
"Dit." She and Mr.. Diss Debar were
frequently locked in room together for
a whole day talking speculation, much
to the annoyance OF the wife. Finally
Mrs. Debar, concluding that her husband
and "Dit" were altogether too affection
ate even for father and daughter, raised
q tempest, in the course OF which she
warned the mysterious edit" to make
herself scarce, which she did, going us
mysteriously as she came.
Then Mr.. Debar had business in New
York again, and came back with plan
in his head for removing to Philadelphia
in order to be here during the Centen-
nial. He argued that he had splendid
opportunities for making money here,
and so the family came.
1t was not long before Mrs. Debar
found, to her modification and anger,
that "Dit" was around. The children
saw her and their father together. Mrs.
Debar became aware that there was an
influence eXerted over husband by the
mysterious woman, and so told him in
a spirit OF wounded Indignation to leave
her and go to his illegitimate love.
Debar went. That was in 1874, and
they have lived apart ever since. Mrs.
Debar says they were never divorced,
and that her husband has supported her
and his family ever since, and still comes
to see them occasionally.
He came the last time at Christmas.
Mrs. Debar still has a kindly affection
for her wayward husband, says he was
generous and kind and was idolized by
his family. Running away with the
mysterious Editha was the only wrong
thing he ever did. She hopes, even at
this day, that he may repent his folly
and come back,