The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-06
TILTED HER HUBBY
NOW HERSELF AND PARAMOUR ARE
IN JAIL FOB Perjury.
Father of Eight Children Elopes with
Woman with Two-They Began Life
Anew at Guthrie, but One Day the w.
mans Real Husband TurnedUp and there
was CONFERENCE.-The Town Got Hot
for Them and They Went to Norman
Where High Temperature Also Pre-
vailed-Story of Their Crime.

Guthrie, o. T, Oct. 5.-(SpeciaL)-
Last May a heavy set man with a
bushy beard arrived in Guthrie from
Oklahoma City, accompanied by a
rather small, ordinary looking woman
and two handsome children. The cou-
pie. had been living at Oklahoma City
for some time passing under the name
Of Craig and their goods were shipped
under that name
The man rented a room over the post
Office and hug out a sign 'Dr. J. F.
Edgar, Homeopa thic Physician and
Surgeon" and the couple soon took up
their abode in a handsomely furnished
cottage on East Villas avenue. All went
well for few weeks and the couple
were seen on the streets with the two
pretty children and attracted much at
tentiOn.
One day early in July a strange man
with the unmistakable bearing of a
Southerner, stepped from a Santa Fe
train and asked for the best hotel
There was nothing unusual ABOUT the
man but DR.. Edgar who happened TO
be in the depot turned deadly pale and
drew back in the corner until the
stranger was out of sight then Jumped
the cottage on Villas avenue where there
was CONSERVATION for a time and then
he and the woman drove hurriedly to
lawyers office. In a brief space Of
time the lawyer appeared before Judge
Dale and secured an injunction against
Frank G. Davidson seeing his wife,
Anna Davidson, and his two children,
for fear he sould do them bodily harm.
Before the newcomer had finished his
dinner at the Royal hotel this order Of
the court was served on him for he was
none other than Frank c. Davidson,
revenue collector for the First district
of Kentucky, who was searching for his
wife who had left home some time be-
fore with their two children. ostensibly
to visit in Kansas City but really to
elope with DR.. J. T. Edgar, their family
physician, who had deserted his wife
and eight children at the home of all
concerned, Lexington. KY. The cou-
pie had come to Oklahoma hoping
among strangers to hide their guilt
and secure divorces from those whom
they had betrayed and deserted and it
was only by accident that Davidson
learned of his wife being here.
The next day he was allowed to see
his children and at once filed an answer
TO his wife's suit for divorce alleging
her guilt and demanding CUSTODY of the
children. After he had departed DR..
Edgar, who had been in hiding for
several days appeared at his office pack
ed his goods and moved to Norman.
In a few days Mrs. Davidson with
drew her petition for divorce and fol-
lowed him with the children. Things
got too hot for them there, however,
and they soon disappeared again.
They went from there to Memphis
Tenn, where both recently applied for
divorces swearing that they had been
residents of Tennessee. AS a result of
the false swearing both of them have
this week been arrested and jailed for
perjury and the outraged husband has
at last secured possession of his little
ones. Both Davidson and Mrs. Ed
gar will prosecute the pair vigorously
and their chances are good for term in
the penitentiary.
Mrs. Davidson is a daughter of Col
Horace Craig, a prominent citizen OF
Walnut. Kan, and when she was mar
RED to Mr.. Davidson at the age of Is,
ten years ago, they eloped romantical-
ly from her home.
Their married life was happy until
during the last year Edgar took ad-
vantage of his position as family ply
stefan to obtain undue influence over
and ruin her.