Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-25

does not deny. His youngest child was
very i'll. The doctor told him that 1t
would surely die In few days. Mr..
Fendleton thought he would wait until
after its death before he told his wife of
the divorce. He resumed his residence
IN the house, occupying separate room
from his wife. The child, instead of
dying in few days, lived for ten
months, and the telling about the di-
vorce was put of
DAY AFTER DAY.
In the meantime he was elected mayor
by big majority.
When the child died Mr.. Pendleton
showed his wife the divorce (here his story
begins again.. He thought the divorce
was genuine. There was no scene or
anything of the kind, and he quietly left
Fort Worth and went to New Orleans,
where he married the woman he loved.
They took trip. She returned to Fort
Worth before he did. The news of the
marriage was made public and then
came the sensation. Mr.. Pendleton did
not suspect that his divorce was fraudu-
lent until he read it IN the papers in the
dispatches from Chicago to the effect
that there was no record of the case
there. He returned to Fort Worth to
settle his business affairs, intending to
live down the talk that had been Gre
ated. Even the dispatches in the papers
did not convince him that he had not
legal divorce, and he refused to believe
that it was illegal until he read the inter-
view that
THE GAZETTE REPORTER
had with Hughes in this city. He did
not oppose the suit of his wife, and her
divorce was granted to her. He had
$40 900 worth of real estate in Texas,
and he settled that on her and then came
TO New York. All the money he had
left was little over $1,000. He remar-
ried Addie Cullen at once and Is now
living with her here.
He had determined to be revenged on
the lawyers, that was one reason why he
had come to New York. He had deter
mined to convince the few friends in
Fort Worth, who stood by him AM be-
lieved what he said about how be pro-
cured the divorce, and the many old
friends who believe that he knew all the
time that the divorce was fraudulent,
that he had been imposed upon. He
has worked since he came here to vindi-
cate himself. He has had all he wants
of notoriety, but he is determined that
he will have justice.
On Saturday afternoon last Mr.. PEN
dleton had all the evidence necessary for
his revenge, he thought, except the con-
fessions of Hughes s. Campbell. He
wanted to have these made in the pres
ence OF witness, and so he took
sun REPORTER ALONG.
They found Mr.. Campbell at the office.
He did not recognize Mr.. Pendleton at
first. MIR. Pendleton introduced his
friend and then sat down. Mr.. Camp
bell looked at him n moment and then
said: ''Who are you, anyho@?'
"Why, don't you know me?'' asked
Mr.. Pendleton. "You ought to. l was
a client OF yours once; l am Mr.. PEN
dletou, from Texas
ION, yes,' said Campbell, 81 am
glad to see you
~ got letter from you last Septem-
Der inviting me to come and settle up
that little transaction. l am here,
said Mr.. Pendleton.
'Yes, / remember - said Campbell.
"You will remember said Pendle-
ton, 'that l wrote You letter and you
wrote the one l refer to in reply. l
afterward wrote TO you again, but you
did not answer
eyes, remember ,'' said Campbell,
al wrote that first letter at the dctation
of Mr.. Hughes, my old partner.
'Of course you know the object Of
my VISIT said Mr.. Pendleton. 81
was wronged in this matter, but we will
let that go. l have come to get the S2G5
which paid to you. That I want. -
'Well,' said Campbell, smiling
blandly, ''you have come to the wrong
party. don't know that you paid the
fir, Of Huphps G. any uopev
at all. You might have had case with
Hughes, but know nothing about it,
"Do you mean to say, then, that you
did not get any of my money!" asked
Pendleton.
al suppose. said Campbell, 'that if
you paid any money at all to the firm l
got my share of course.
81 thought that divorce was real,'
said Peudleton, refiectively.
'Do you mean 70 tell me- said
Campbell, "that you, lawyer, with
the experience you had, expected to get
a genuine divorce in that way, without
appearing or making an affidaYit. Do
you mean to say that you expected
genuine divorce?''
I'm not here to answer questions
said Mr.. Pendleton.
81 AM HERE FOR MY MONEY.
"well, If you want to get any money
ont of me- replied Campbell, half
angrily, "you can begin suit right
away
''Mr. Pendletou is here at your invi-
tation, suggested the reporter.
eyes, '''said Mr.. Campbell, "when 1
got his letter 1 showed it to Hughes. and
be said il was all right, he would fix the
matter, to write for him to come on, and |
did
THAT letter, - said the Sun man,
''you say. You must know that the |
firm of Hughes & Campbell never ap- |
peared in any divorce proceedings for |
Fou; did Hughes say that?''
~ wrote the letter at Hughes re- |
quest, said Campbell. "lt was strictly |
true.'
"Yes,' interrupted Mr.. Pendleton,
lit was strictly true-neither Hughes s.
Campbell nor anyone else appeared in
court for me-there wasn't any court in |
IT, -
Campbell said: 81 don't know any,
thing at all about this matter. / knew
nothing about your divorce, and know
lot hing about 1t now
Campbell, said Pendleton, with
startling force, "that divorce paper has
Jeen submitted to