Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-08-26

baby or for the memory OF his dead child.
He has given up position, money, friends,
to honor and respect of his fellow men, all
for a low, vile woman. His own people
| denounce him and think l have borne with
! him too long. l shall do so no longer. l am
not going home to my family, although
they urge me to do so, but I shall maintain
myself and baby as best I can, teaching. I
already have a number of scholars and
Roadway"
Mrs. Spencer has begun proceedings
against her husband for separate main
tenance and has sent notice to him at Bis
marck.
Mr.. SPENCER INTERVIEWED.
MI. Spencer had not seen the article
in question, up to noon Saturday,
although he had heard the rapidly
spreading report to the effect that there
had such an article appeared and when
it was shown to him, he read it through,
almost without speaking. He seemed
stunned and surprised when he finished
and he handed the article back with the
remark: swell, that is rough, isn't it,"
"There isn't much of a statement to
be made in such a case," he SAID, when
asked to make a statement of the facts
in the case, "except to make a complete
denial of the whole story. 1t is a lie,
from beginning to end, and I can fur
nish ample proof of my statement. I
can obtain from dozens of the leading
business men in Chicago, where I have
lived, written refutations of the allega-
tionscontained in the article"
Mr.. Spencer was naturally 10th to dis
cuss such a delicate affair, but was
finally prevailed upon to give the facts in
the case, and they are substantially as
related below.
He is married, as is stated in the
article, and his wife is a resident of
Chicago. Her parents are weIl-to-do,
in fact wealthy, and she wal we'll edu-
Gated and refined. Spencer and his
wife lived unhappily together, it seems,
and they were divorced in 1886. Of
course, after this, there was no commu-
nication between them, and Mr.. Spencer
says there was any cause, on the
part of either, for complaint on the
part of the other. It was a divorce,
pure and simple, and there was no en-
tanglemert of any description, there
after.
II do not believe the material on which
that telegram was founded aver ema-
mated from her." said Nj. Spencer, in
discussing the matter. lit is a garbled
affair, in the first place, and I think I
am we'll enough acquainted with her to
know that she wouldn't be guilty of
such a thing. AS for her being destitute,
that, I think, is made up from whole
cloth, for her parents are wealthy, and
there is no possibility of restitution, in
the case.
"Where the story originated, I cannot
say. Like every other professional man,
I have and have had enemies. I have
suffered often from newspaper attacks,
although never before from one of such a
tendency to hurt my reputation as this
one. l have never spoken to anyone in
this city regarding my private life, be-
cause it is a subject l am 10th to refer
to, and I confess I can't see the neces-
sity of my having done so, although now
that this story has been started, it be-
comes necessary to mention these
affairs"
The further allegation that the lady
who came to Bismarck with him was not
his sister, and that for her he had for
saken his wife, Mr.. Spencer character
lied as absolutely false.
"The lady is my sister," he said, "and
her name is Alice May Warnock, and
not Alice Mink Warnock, as the dis
patch states. I did not attempt to make
people believe that she was Miss Spen-
Ger, for she was registered at the hotel
as Mrs. Warnock, and introduced as
Mrs. Warnock, to everyone whom she
met. Mrs. Warnock was married some
years ago in Chicago, to her present
husband, who was then of prepossessing
appearance and had excellent prospects.
After marriage, he turned out bad, as is
often the case, and my sister left him.
She went to California, and he followed
her. She returned to Chicago, and he
followed, ~harassing and troubling her
at every turn, until there was nothing
left for us to do but leave Chicago, and,
accordingly, we came here.
II wish to correct the prevailing opin-
ion that I am in partnership with Mr..
Newton, for I am not, being simply en-.
ployed by him, and learning under him
the mode of practice in the state until I
can be admitted to the bar"
In closing, Mr.. Spencer said that, in
his opinion, his actions and those of his
sister since their arrival IN the city
formed as good a defense against any
insinuations that might he made, as
could be asked. "Nothing evil has ever
been said of us at any place where we
| have lived" he continual uand T dop,4