The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-05-05
MRS. HUGHES NO. 5.
She Leaves Her Carroll Street
Home i'm st. Louis Very
Mysteri0usly.

This mornings Globe-Democrat
contains the following relative to
Charles Shelley Hughes, who was
lately written up in the BAzoo:
Miss Mollie A. Borngesser, now the
fifth wife of Charles Shelley Hughes,
tramp typesetter, lawyer and printer
evangelist, whose varied exploits and
experiences have been published in the
Globe-Democrat from time to time,
left the home of her parents, No. AL
Carroll street, on Friday. and is
missing from husband home and
friends. The mother, who speaks
French AID German fuently, but
English unintelligibly, isheart-broken
over the matter. Charles Shelley
Hughes arrived in the city yesterday
morning, having left the employment
of the SEDALIA BAzoo, and, according
TO his history, came to claim his wife.
When he arrived, however, he was
had Xith the information that Mollie
81 9Th her trunk fcs Sh,a before taking
did not say what her :" oes.fsahge
ton would be, nor is it known DOW.
SeIf-confessedly the cause of her de-
parture was the exposures of Hughes
life printed in the GloDe-Democrat
the past week. "You have deceived
Mollie and broken her heart" said
the mother to the husband, in broken
English, which Hughes denied to
her. 1t was 6 o'clock in the evening
when he CALLED at the Carroll street
residence. He had arrived in the
morning, however, and spent the day
renewing old acquaintsnces.
ST. LOUIS his FUTURE HOME.
Mr.. Hughes spoke freely of his
troubles to Globe.Democrat reporter
last night, and expressed a determi-
nation to make St. Louis his future
home, leave the ministry, go to work
setting type and prove that, what.
ever he was up to the time of his con-
version, two and half years ago, he
now is, and intends 80 be, a good citi.
zen. Of bis relations with Miss
Borngesser he said eve were mar
Eied on AprIl ID by Justice of the
Peace Milo I. Blair, at Sedalia, Mo.
OF her own free will she went to Sc
dalia. For two weeks / had been
with the BAzoo, and, not knowing
that | was to lose the place, wrote
Mss Borngesser that I could not |
leave Sedalia." |
Mr.. Hughes was then shown the |
annexed dispatch from the. Beatrice
<Neb.) correspondent of the Globe
Democrat:
Evangelist memory is faulty, as
shown by the records. He is reported
in yesterdays Globe Democrat as saw
ang that he way divorced from wife
No. 3 at Sterling, Neb., in May, 1888,
and refers to the circuit clerk for cor
roboratien of his statement. In the
first place Sterling is but a small vii.
1age, where divorce court is never
held, and, again, investigation of the
records at Tecumseh, the county seat
of johnson county, fails to record such
divorce in 1888, but that Della L.
Hughes, possibly the same, was grant
ed decree of divorce April q, 1887, Ii
one year earlier than stated by Hughes,
ample time for him to marry several
other wives in entirely different places
than stated by him."
RELATIONS To MISS BORING EssER.
SsThat mistake of mine" said
Hughes, f'came from lack of knowl- t
edge of the localities. My wife lived d
1t Sterling, and l repeat the records
will show that she secured a divorce a
from me. At Sterling she became the
of DR.. John r. Ford and
later married him. l made no de-
tense, the case going by default. But 2
speaking of Miss Bornges:er, much q
fault was found when l had the mar
rage ceremony performed by Justice Is
Of the peace. Justice Blair was an oil
I'D printer, and We had been friends
'or years. That is the reason We were A
married by him. We were married
IN Wednesday night, and when the Al
Sedalia papers roasted me | ad vised
ny wife to return to St. Louis to G
void the unpleasantness and embar- di
assment which was sure to ensue. q
,he left on the Saturday night follow
NC on the midnight train. I wrote nj
0 her informing her that L would =.
tay in Seda,ia until the troubles were n rn
out. l repeat there was Pi
% legal barrier to prevent me from tol
narrying Miss BOrngesser, whom | eq
new long time. On Thursday l "a
7rote postal to my wife stating that &C
be trouble was settled and that I H
could be home the latter part of the
Teek. My intention was TO 60 to St. NJ
.ouis and begin housekeeping" ter