Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-28

pounded savagely on the Office door and
when it was opened, entered the room
excitedly and challenged a personal en-
counter with the attorney, whom he &C
cused of undue intimacy with his wife.
In fact, Parker claimed to have seen the
two in a compromising situation on the
sofa when he looked in at the keyhole.
An officer came promptly to the scene
and arrested both the men, who subse-
quently gave bail for their appearance
before Judge Elliott this morning.
For several months MI. and Mrs. Par
ker have not lived together happily. He
is stopping at the Malvern hotel, and
Mrs. Parker is living with Mrs. Long
fellow, at &c 18th street North. The pair
formerly lived at $50 Hennepin avenue,
later on 9th street and afterwards at
1901 LIST avenue North. They lived in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Bismarck, N.
D., before coming to Minneapolis. It
was at Bismarck, something like six
years ago, according to Mr.. Parker's
story, that his wife got acquainted with
Mr.. Flannery. He accuses the lawyer of
having allenated his wife's affections,
but those who know Mr.. Flannery hint
that yesterdays outbreak was simply an
attempt on the part of Parker to bring
discredit upon hls wife and her attor-
ney. Parker is pretty we'll known in
Minneapolis. Some time ago he was a
partner in a drug store at 18th street and
Hennepin avenue, and under his MASTER
ly management the profits fell away I'M
til the partnership had to be dissolved.
Later he was employed to manage a
drug store on 4th avenue South, for F..
G. Penney, and got into trouble on the
charge of selling goods and pocketing
the proceeds. About the same time his
wife accused him of being intimate with
a certain young m of their &C
quaintance. The divorce suit followed,
and Mrs. Parker sent her little daugh-
ter to Iowa to get her out of Parker's
way.
Parker says his wife thought he was
out of town yesterday and that he did a
little detective business on the sly in
order to catch her. She Indignantly de-
MES that there is anything improper be-
tween her and her attorney, and Mr..
Flannery, who is married and stands
we'll as an attorney and a citizen, says
there is absolutely nothing to Parker's
statements rejecting on his wife's char
acter. MI. Flannery says the woman
has submitted to great abuses at the
hands of her husband, and that he was
consulted as friend and attorney. Mr.
Flannery saws that Mr.. Parker Is a ner-
vous, eXcitable man, and that anything
he would say, especially in a matter of
this character, should be taken with a
good deal of allowance.
The Minneapolis Times, account is a
great deal more sensational and proba-
bly, a great deal more unreliable:
Shortly after S o'clock wild cries of
~"police!' 'murder!" and so on brought
Officers Butler and Riviere to the Bank
of Commerce building and on the fourth
floor of the building, and in Mr.. Elan
nery's office a strange sight met their
gaze.
Two men, one of them Flannery and
the other Parker, we're tightly clinching
each other and each appeared to be
afraid to release the other for fear he
would take a smash at him. All this
time an almost frantic woman, who
proved to be Mrs. Parker, was wringing
her hands, and crying in tones of mingled
excitement and fear ''Don't Jim! Don't
hurt him! Let him 60 jim! Don't l
say. DON'T"
The officers stopped the matter, and
then the fun began again. Both of the
belligerents seemed to want to talk at
one and the same time, and each in
order to make himself heard above the
noise of the other, shouted at the top of
his voice.
Parker asserted in emphatic and no
uncertain terms that he did not propose
that any man should act as husband pro
tenn. while he had his health and was
able to keep up his standing in the COM
munity. Not much. And he announced
his entire willingness to make the body
of any person who should attempt to
usurp his position in the family, resem-
BILE a pepper box. He also objected to
his wife's consulting az attorney, ever
though it was her attorney in a divorce
proceeding, behind locked doors, as
such, he stated, was the case in this in
stance. He was not of the opinion that
to insure privacy it was necessary for an
attorney to lock the doors of his office
when he consulted a client, particularly
when the said client was of the female
sex and fair to look upon. He had
rights, and proposed to maintain them.
Then Mr.. Flannery, he of the Irish
name, had his innings, and, with his
shirt collar awry,; caused by it's being in
close juxtaposition with Parker's fingers,
he proceeded a tale to unfold. He was
Mrs. Parker's attorney and as such he
was consulted by the lady before men,
toned, and while III such consultation
Parker, accompanied by n or two other
men, burst into the office and in a loud
tone of voice declared his intention of
shooting several holes in his rotund form
and otherwise disfiguring him for life.
This he objected to and proceeded to
clinch with Parker and to hold him to
prevent his getting injured.
X X X X X X
The jailer searched the pair and found
no fire arms, and then escorted them to
cells 8 and 9, which, though adjoining,
permitted no continuance of hostilities
Then there was some more fun. The
two men did not want to spend the night
in a dungeon deep, and they sent mess
ages for attorneys. About $3.50 Judge
Elliott was found, and he placed his
signature to a bond, which permitted
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