Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-25
HUGHES CORRALED.
The Man of Divorce Mill Fame
AT Home" to a Gazette Man.
He is Found in the Third Story OF an
Uptown Flat, and Talks of His
Neiari0uS Business.
Says He VIII fake His Medicine Like a Man,
as His Business" Is Now Forever
RuIned-The Pendleton Affair.
Special TO the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
New YORK, Dec. 24.-WIlliam Duryea
Hughes has been run down by GAZETTE
reporter, who discovered him in a little
room on the third floor OF an old tena-
ment uptown. As soon as Hughes
found there was no escape from the
clutches of the newspaper man he con-
cluded to make full breast of his CON-
nection with the Davenport divorce case.
He said: "I've about concluded to go
down to the recorder and tell him all 1
know-tell him all about Shis business
from the first. I've about done, tor it
is certain my business is all gone. I've
got nerve, but that's no use now. It's
all out, and IN come to the front.
GRIN AND TAKE MY MEDICINE
like man. There s nothing more to be
made public now. I'm done for. and
that ends It. we had this thing hanging
over me five months. l have felt Il was
coming. Three months ago l was on the
point of going to Recorder Smyth aud
confessing everything TO him. / am not
q natural born criminal. l never COM
mitted crime before this miserable
business, and l was drawn into this.
What's the use of talking, thought I
am man of intelligence and should
have had the strength of mind not to be
drawn into it. Now l shall not COM
plain that am caught. I ought 20 take
my punishment like u man, and by God
| will.
jackson, the printer, made a mis-
take. l didn't have 500 of those blanks
printed. It was only $50. There are
only 200 of Theses in my desk with the
seal.
"How many divorces are there ou.'"
was asked.
said Hughes, "but don t think there
are more than six or eight.
'Where are these?'
:well, they are all Chicago papers, -
said Hughes, "but l think all the par
ties except Pendleton are New Workers.
That's my recollection. If you could
mention the names of those you have in
your possession, / could tell whether
they are ours or not. 1t'sa little strange
that the one which was
1900 MILES AWAY
was the one that settled me, wasn't l.?
l will tell this, though, you have been
deceived in Pendleton. Pendleton knew
that that divorce was fraudulent. We
told him right in our office, and Camp
bell was present at the time, that We
could not get a court divorce, but we
could get him sumething that would au-
swer him just the same, provided there
was no woman in the case. This is God 8
truth. l SAID to him, 'Pendletou, Is
there any woman behind this? Are you
going TO marry some one?'
Z" No. no. he said, I'm not.
ave then said to him, If your wife
Is satisfied. as you say, L can give you
this paper and you can seperate and
keep away from each other two years
and then you can marry If you
want to-
"He said, That's all right He
knew very we'll that we couldn't get a
good divorce in the time we did that
work even if he didn't understand it
from what We said to him. He did not
make an affidavit of any kind and he got
the papers.
AFTER WE GOT THE JOB.
l III tell just how it was. We sent on the
comp laint bill he called 1t, which we
were to file with the application. He SAID
that what was sent was about what he
wanted, but If any changes were neces-
sarY we could make them. Needless to
say, no changes were necessary.
'Who wrote the divorce deoree2'
asked the reporter.
Campbell, - said Hughes.
'And you forged Clerk McGrath's
YES" said Hughes.
"In what way was Mr.. William Butt
into Tod in -na ha
reporter.
"Only in the line of cash, - replied
Hughes. "He got two-thirds of the
cas- for all divorces that we issued"
'He said yesterday that he didn't
know anything about any divorces that
we're out, - said the reporter.
"Well, he's id liar,'' said
Hughes. ~ would to God I'd never
seen that man. Thank God l am not as
bad as he is. l am not naturally
as 1 said before, but he ought
10 be in -
WELL, WHERE WILL BE?'
be concluded bitterly.
The reporter asked Hughes whether he
had read the interview with Buttner, and |
Hughes answered that he had, and was
amused by it.
"He lied, ," he said, "wbeu he said |
hat sent word around to him to button
Ip his mouth. 1 never told him any such |
thing, and 1 never sent any word around |
70 him. 1 know him too we'll. 1 never |
thought of anything like a fake divorce |
Until he suggested it to me. 1 was in |
hard luck, and went into it with him. |
As say, he got two-thirds Of the money |
rom all them.
elbow many was he in on?" asked the |
reporter.
"He was in on all except the Pendle-
:on affair."" replied Hughes. "He
iidn't have anything to do with that.
and l got all OF that
CHOW many did Campbell have q
hare OFF," asked the reporter.
"Only the Pendleton case," said
Hughes.
Ibid you forge the name of Clerk P.
McGrath on all of the divorces issued
from the mill?' asked the reporter.
"Yes,' said Hughes, "that's my |
what's the use of talk
ng,
YOU KNOW IT ALL
Ii we'll as I. Now I'm ready to take |
my medicine. II they Will only leave
ne alone here until it is time to 20 to
,ourt and plead guilty, viii be salts.