St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-20
NOT GUILTY THIS Time.
A Story AflOat That Mrs. Henry Had
Eloped Again.
THE REPORT IS UNFOUNDED.
Wesley Clark Deserts His Wife and Two
Children, But Takes No Woman
With Him.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WAsEcA, Mimi, Jan. 19.-There is
no truth whatever in the report which
has been circulated, and to which the
papers In this vicinity have given Gre
dence, that Mrs. Henry, of James
vile, whose elopement with Rev.
seymour created such scan
DIAL last fall, had again
eloped this time with Wesley Clark, the
missing station agent at Madison Lake.
Mrs. Henry is living with her children
In quiet seclusi0n at the home of her
father, w. G. Allyn, in GAINESVILLE, re-
penting at leisure her rash conduct of
last summer, and was interviewed there
by the GLOBE correspondent.
Il have seen Mr.. Clark but once for
several years." said Mrs. Henry, ''and
that was about the last of November,
when he was here at my fathers in COM
pany with my brother and his wife"
Sald her mother, interpOSing:
Ihey only remained about two hours
and Fanny wasn't out of my sight while
they were here"
Mrs. Henry said she had not been out
since she returned from her European
trip. except once to go to her own house
on the next lot to her fathers, and once
to Madison Lake, before Clara went
there. Mrs. Allyn again interposed:
'George. my son, came over after US
one afternoon, and Fanny and l went
over to Madison Lake with him, and
Staid over night. Fanny was with me
all the time, and slept with me. Clara
wasn't at Madison Lake at that time,
and know positively that Fanny never
saw MN except III my presence since
she returned"
Mrs. Henry says she intends to live so
as to atone as much as possible for her
great sin, and asserts that there is no
truth i'll the talk that she still CORE
spends with Rev. Seymour. She wrote
MIN once. she says, since she returned
home, and that was in reply to his state
ment that she led him to take the step
he did.
''The newspapers" said Mrs. Henry.
care determined not to let me alone. so
that may atone for my great mistake,
but do not want to be accused of sins
not mine.''
When Wesley Clark disappeared so
mysteriously, he left his wife and two
children in very destitute circum-
stances. Mrs. Clark went to live with
her uncle at Eagle Lake, but has since
removed to st. Clair. She was visited
there and assured the GLOBE CORE
spondent that there was no woman in
the case. Clark packed his valise about
two weeks before Christmas, and told
his wife he was going to st. Paul and
Minneapolis to look for more lucrative
employment.
Wesley Clark was an operator at
GAINESVILLE fourteen years ago, but he
left there when Fanny Allyn, now Mrs.
Henry, was only eleven years old.
George Allyn, Mrs. Henry's brother,
has long been an intimate friend of
Clark, and a week after Clark left home
his wife received letter from him stat
ing that he should never return, and
giving no clew to It's whereabouts, but
stating that if she wished to write to
him she might send the letter to George
Allyn, who would forward it to his ad-
dress. Mrs. Clark stated that she
thought George Allyn and his wife were
home. She is convinced that they knew
OF the movements of her husband, and
that George Allyn lent him $40, to
get away with. Mrs. Clark has never
had but the one letter from her nus
band, but Clark'S brother told her uncle
that Wesley was in Kansas City, and
was going south. She says they always
lived happily together. Mrs. Clark did
not like Allyns and seems to think they
got her husband away for revenge. 1t
was probably these few facts. con-
Meeting Mrs. Henry'S brother with
Clark'S disappearance, which started the
tongues of the gossipS wagging.