Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-22
TOO MUCH MARRIED.
Petition for Divorce that Will Bring
Out Sensational Developments.
An Ex- Conductor who Deserted His Wife md
Took Another without Consulting
Wife Number One.

snecial TO the Gazette.
SEDALIA, Mo-, Nov. 2l.-Sone start
ling developments are promised in the
suit for divorce that was flied in the
Petis county circuit court this afternoon
by W. Il. Kirkpatrick, q former con-
ductor on the Missouri Pacific road
but now residing in Arizona. in his
petition fitzpatrick alleges that he was
married in the fall of 1881 to Miss Ella
Sharp, who was in Charleston, Ind.
The honeymoon was about the only
pleasant part of the union, for the petit
ton alleges that the wife soon grew
weary OF her matrimonial bonds and re-
fused to live W 18th him. He sold out his
business and
WENT TO TEXAS,
where by letter and message he endeav-
ored to win back his wife's affections,
but all to no purpose. A year later
Kirk patrick alleges he learned that his
wife had died at her home in Indiana.
He then came to Sedalia, and in 1883
was married to Mary King OF
Kansas City, by whom he has
two children. He lived with
his Sedaiia wife until Decem Der, 1889,
when he disappeared, aud for a fortnight
his unex planned absence was a sensation
along the entire line of the Missouri
Pacific, where he was known to nearly
everybody. Later, however, all
was made plain by the receipt
of numerous copies of the Jefferson
vile Ind.) Daily News with o marked
article setting forth the fact of the
missing mans marriage i'll that place in
1881. and his singular disappearance
eighteen months later. The article
stated that in 1882 Kirkpatrick was q
travelling salesman. Just before
Thanksgiving day he insisted that his
wife should prepare.
AN UNUSUALLY GOOD DINNER
for that day as he would be at home and
they would entertain a number of their
friends. The guests were in waiting,
but Kirk patrick failed TO materialze.
nor did he return to his family, who,
after a time, mourned him as dead.
Last November Charles McGill,
telegraph operator. who had
known kirkpatrick well in Indi-
ana, was employed at Marshall,
Tex. While there he visited a Mrs.
McDonough. One afternoon he was
sitting IN the parlor and accidentally
opened a Photographic album lying on
Tue taUlo. ne over iehl dtteT
leaf until he was suddenly startled by
seeing the photo likeness OF William
Kirkpatrick before him. He naturally
wondered how it got there, and when he
had sufficiently recovered from his Won
derment he asked Mrs. McDonough
whether she knew the man Kirk patrick.
She said she ought to, as he had mar
risd her niece at Sedalis Mo-, and they
had
TWO VERY PRETTY CHILDREN.
Mr.. McGill told the lady of kirkpat-
rick's wife at Charleston, Ind. She
wrote to kirkpatrick, who answered that
he did not know McGill, but did know
Mrs. Sharp. A few days later Kirk patrick
disappeared from Sedalia, and until the
fling of his suit his exact whereabouts
have been unknown to other than wife
No. ., whom he has supported since his
absence. II the decree is granted as
prayed for kirkpatrick will be remarked
70 wife No 2. The relatives of wife No.
will be heard from at the proper time
though, and the case promises to be as
sensational as could be desired.