Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-04
MARRIED HIS WIFE
He Didn't Know 1t, However,
Until They Looked Up the
Records.
A San Antonio Yarn With Sew
eral Scales--A Good Story
to Tell.

eral Scales--A Good Story
to Tell.
The San Antonio correspondent o
the Globe Democrat sends the follow
ing to that paper:
There recently passed through thi
city en- route TO the City of Mexico
the principals in a romance strange
than was ever woven into a drama o
story. Nearly 20 years ago Georg,
Dunhayen, prosperous young Eng
lish tradeSman, became involved in
difficulty with a neighbor and killed
him. The act was done in sci
defense, but the only witness was al
enemy of Dunhaven and he perjureC
himself for the sake OF revenge. Dun
haven vas held to answer the charg,
of murder, and, seeing no hope o
securing justice, effected his escap,
and fed to this country under al
assumed name. For a year he punched
ed cattle in western Texas, then went
down into Mexico and devoted hi.
attention to mining. He prospered
and in a couple of years was worth
great deal of money. In Mexico ht
met a handsome American girl, who
was travelling with her father and
invalid mother. An attachment
sprang up and they became engaged,
but the father objected. Before the
young lady left Mexico she was
secretly married TO Dunhayen, he
promising that he would dispose OF
his Mexican property and follow her
to the states. There another attempt
was to be made to overcome the
objections of the father, and, failing,
Dunhayen was to claim his bride.
Shortly after the departure of the
Americans the young husband
received word from a relative in Eng.
land that the witness had made a
confession completely generating
him, and he decided to return to his
native land, clear up his record and
assume his rightful name before
claiming his bride. He wrote to her
explaining matters, but the letter
was miscarried. When he returned
to America he found his wife's par
ents both dead, and that she had gone
no n knew whittier. He searched
for her during an entire year, then,
concluding that she had abandoned
him, returned to England. There he
entered the British army and was
sent abroad. Three years ago he left
the service and purchaseda handsome
home near Manchester and devoted
his time to the education of his
widowed sisters children. The gov
erneSs of the latter was a handsome,
accomplished woman, and Dunhaven
fell desperately in love with her.
Not knowing whether his first wife
was living or dead he did not feel at
liberty to declare his passion. He
came 10 America and made another
exhaustive but futile search for the
missing bride and returned to Eng
land fully satisfied that he was a free
man. He laid siege TO the heart of
the stately goyerness and was
accepted. She told him that she had
been once married, but was deserted
by her husband, from whom she sub
sequently secured a divorce. By her
first marriage she had one child, a
daughter, who was at school in Amer
lea. And so they were welded. Dun
Ravens happiness was disturbed,
however, by whispers that his wife
had deceived him. A meddlesome
friend suggested that no one had ever
seen a record of Mrs. Dunhaven's
first marriage. The wrathful hus-
band soundly caned the doubter of
his wife's honor, but that only set a
hundred tongues to wagging where
one had wagged before. Like Othello,
Dunhaven began to grow suspicious.
Like most good husbands he stood a
little in awe of his wife and hest
tated to ask her for proofs of her first
marriage. When he did so he became
so suspicious that, with true Ameri-
can spirit, his wife told him plainly
that, if he could not depend upon her
unsupported word, he was at liberty
to leave her. Leave her lie did but
was soon back, suing for forgiveness.
She graciously forgave him and then
babe him secure passage on the next
steamer for America.
Your doubts will return" she said.
II must set them at rest forever"
She took him directly to the City of
Mexico, and there showed him the
record of her marriage and .Itroduced
him to the priest who performed the
ceremony and who fully identified her.
That marriage register more than set
his doubts at rest; it astounded him.
1t proved that in 1875 the woman at
his side was not only married, but
married. to himself. The wife was as
much astonished as the husband, and
it took them over an hour to fully
understand just how it all happened.
1t seems that the young wife, weary
of waiting for her husband, returned
to Mexico. She there learned that
he had gone to England. She follow,
ed him and was searching for him
there while he was searching for her
in America. In England her babe
was born, and feeling that she was
deserted by the man she loved she dis.
carded his name and took that of her
mother. She devoted herself to teach
ing and finally returned to America.
Here she secured a divorce and placed
her daughter in school. She had not
ceased to love the man who had won
her youthful heart, and made fire,
quent pilgrimages to England, hop.
ing, yet dreading to see him. During
her last visit there she was wooed and
won by the man who had married hel
in Mexico so many years before. The
daughter was telegraphed for and met
her mother and long lost sire in thi:
city on their return from Mexico, ant
together they proceeded to England
1t is n strange drama in real life. anC