The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-07
BARRY sAcKET IN TROUBLE.
After Running Away With an Indiana Heiress
He is Arrested for Bigamy.

1
When the old Main street theater wal
| running in full blast the Sacket-McCo
Comedy company played there to crowded
houses every night. Both partners were
| mashers, and the number of young girls
that were mashed on them was alarming.
| The show went up like balloon, but after
| week or ten days engagement the COM
pany busted and had nothing for assets
but fine stock of eupid's darts. After
leaving here they went with travelling
medicine company owned BY Diamond
Bell, but both OF them left with company.
Mccoy eloped with the doughter of Null.
vaue merchant and Sacket took for his
partner young girl who lived then in this
city, named Fay Ellsworth. At Winfield
he left her and ran away with the
wife of the patent msdisine doctors, with
whom he was travelling.
At Topeka few days ago q
Henry Sacket got iuto trouble and
his description answers our Harry to dot.
1. appears that he is still at his old trade
Of breaking hearts and making pictures,
for the Harry that was hero made pecu-
liar kind of fancy paper pictures, while he
was of the stage-between acts, so to
speak.
The Topeka Journal has the following
to say about the gentleman:
Harry Sackett, fakir and maker OF
picture papers by profession, and a breaker
of feminine hearts by incliuation, is under
arres; in the Shawnee county Jail. on the
charge of bigamy and improper relations
with Miss Frances Davenport, pretty
young heiress Of Elkhart, Ind. The arrest
vx-ac do ~ olo hxx
Sheriff Burge, on telegram from Chief
Shea of Chicago.
Last Saturday morning Sackett, accom-
panied by pretty girl 20 years old, en-
gagged rooms at the Keith building as man
and wife, and were assigned to room 81.
Miss Davenport in the meantime had run
out Of money, and it occurred to her that
Mrs; George w. Crane of this city was an
old friend of her mother and would be
willing TO identify her in order to get a
draft cashed. Mrs. Crane did so, but in
the meantime MIR. Crane had seen an ac-
count of Miss Davenport's elopement in
Sundays papers. The young woman |
came into Mr.. Cranes Office this morning |
and he frankly told her the great mistake |
that she had run away with Sackett aud |
that they mere not married.
She did not appear TO realize the ire
parable blunner she had made. She agreed |
to leave him for the time being until she |
decides what she wants to do next She |
says Sackett has agreed to marry her, but
she has only his word. The officers think
oackett has another wife, as il he had not
he would have married his victim before
this for the $40, 900 in her own name.
Sackett is an expert in his particular
branch of art. Give him pair of shears
aud he will turn out frst-class profile
On black paper of any subject. He is
'weily dressed and prides himself on being
: lady's killer. Since he came to Topeka
he has been in company with Tony Brown.
father lived in Topeka twenty
years ago. and operated a bookstore The
bid settlers will remember him as some
hing of sharper himself
The following dispatch from Elkhart,
Indiana, throws some light on Sackett's
conduct
Miss Frances Davenport. handsome and
charming. has Frustrated her family with
grief and caused a profound sensation in
tlkhart. by eloping with an advensurer.
The young woman, who is 90 years OLD, is
,he youDges: daughter of the late Senator
3. l.. Davenport. who during his life WAS
,he leading banker of this city. and owned
he most sumptuously appointed residence
q this part of the state
''The man with whom Miss Davenport
'loped. came here three weeks ago. He
rave his name as NJ. Sackett. He earned
! living by making silk pictures. He had
woman with him whom he introd uced
IS his wife and of whom he wanted
o be rid. While here he drank
reely and had the appearance of man
vho lived by his wits. He was known to
diss Davenport's friends to have met her
wo or three times, but nothing was
hought of it. He left here two weeks
go. Miss Davenport told her three sis.
ers. the mother having died few months
go, that she WAS going with young
ady friend to spend tho day in Goshen,
md lacked up some of her clothing.
1T was soon learned that she had not |
zone there, and search for her was imme
lately begun, her uncle, ex-senator J. r.
taking the matter in charge.
lie found that she had drawn S45 from the
'ank, bought ticket for Chicago,
nd was joined at La Porte by a
TRANCE man. Misses Florence and
lizzie went to Chicago in quest of
er, but returned, having found no trace
f her. They have since received a letter
rom her written at Chicago, saying that
vhen they received the letter she would
70 married and on her way east. Sackett
OLD some men at La Porte before the ar
ival of the train that he was going to Cal.
fornia to take in the Midwinter fair with
girl who had $4,000 or 10000, which is
bout the amount of Miss Davenport's
eady money. Miss Davenport is quite
aud no breath OF suspicion has
yer been attached to her name, nor was
he much given to the society of gentle
aen. She is now known to have had
landestine meetings with Sackett during
is stay here.