The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-03-07
ABANDONED HIS Wife
The Low Down Strategy Of a Yakima
Blacksmith.
He CARRIES OFF The FURNITURE
The Regular session OF the city
Councii-Account OF "a Wenns
wedding by an Unassigned ssHer-
adv Reporter.

II the city dads can and will pass an
ordinance allowing the marshal to i'm
pound ours travelling upon two instead OF
four legs. that official would receive the
thanks Of this community by placing with
the rest OF the big and little pups an in
dividual by the name OF Dennis Kennedy
who recently was horse sheer in a
Front street shop, but who is now sup
posed to be on the way to Canada, leav-
ing a deserted wife behind. However,
this Kennedy may rest assured that GER
tain Yakima residents know be is not in
Canada, and that the Yakima county
sheriff would not have to go out
side OF his own territory to bring the
wife-deserter in, were he wanted-for legal
purposes only. His presence may be
needed in this city soon, but it will not
be because the rush of jobs 10 his smithy
will ever keep him lean and poor from
overyork. Not any. That is the con.
sensus of public opinion, reasoned from
these premises:
On Friday afternoon last Dennis Ken
needy went to his rooms in the Syndicate
block and asked his wife to 90 on hunt
ing trip with him, stating that it was a
good day for ducks. She consented,
thinking to humor him-as they had re-
Gently had more or less marital troubles
They drove to the house of George Defoi,
near the old town, and Mr.. Defoi accom-
panied Kennedy on the hunt (at the sug-
gestion of Mrs. Defoi), Mrs. Kennedy re-
naming with the latter. Night came.
and no hunters. Dinner grew cold and
colder and the women anxious-but at
8 80 the men drove up to the house, Defoi
alighted, Mrs. Kennedy took his place,
and husband and wife drove back to this
city. The trip home, Mrs. Kennedy says,
was more than agreeable. Kennedy
seemed kind and gentle. and the wife was
surprised and pleased. At the foot of the
Syndicate block stairs Mrs. Kennedy
alighted, Mr.. Kennedy handed her key
to the rooms, said he would go and put
up the team and then return, and drove
away. He hasn't been back since. Mrs.
Kennedy went to the rooms, tried re-
peatedly to open the doors and failed !;
then went to the apartments of other
dodgers and borrowed key which un-
locked the door. That minute the ex-
PLANTATION came. Curtains were gone
from windows, carpets from the floors,
bed, stove, table, chairs, draperies, dishes
everything the man had ever purchased
for the home-were missing; and only
dusty papers and heap of linen and
some books owned by the wife before she
beca me Mrs. Kennedy remained. Further
search disclosed the fact that purse
containing all the money the woman had,
So, was gone; likewise her clean personal
linen, hose and undergafments. She was
frantic. She looked for hours for her hus-
band, her goods and misunderstanding
none of them. Friends cared for her that
night and are still protecting her-but
she has yet tailed to discover her husband
or the location of her furniture.
1t has been discovered that some party
(probably not Kennedy, sr.,) had gone to
the rooms while they were empty that
evening, and hauled away the goods.
Who now has them, or why he has them,
who hauled them, at whose direction
they were so disposed of-these are ques-
tions yet to be answered That they will
ultimately be fully explained there is but
little doubt.
1t appears that Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy
were married about year ago, in Vic
toria, less than six months after he had
beed divorced from a former wife. Mrs.
Kennedy had also been married, her hus-
band having been a soldier and she, as
his widow, drawing q pension. Kennedy
had represented himself to her as a man
of means, and she felt no uneasiness
in marrying him. She has been i'll much
of her married life, which accounts for
her inability to please Kennedy in house
work-he having alleged that she failed
to cook his meals for him. They have
never lived happily together. 1t is stated
that he once gave her money, $25, to go
to Tacoma and stay, promising her $25 or
$50 more when she arrived on the sound.
She never received any more money, and
therefore returned to Yakima.
Every man and woman in the Syndi-
cate block, and all who know her at all
well, speak OF Mrs. Kennedy as vrtuous
woman. No excuse can be found for such
contemplate action on the part of the
husband. Even though she were not
legally his wife, as he is said to have
stated, (they having been married less
than six months after his divorce from
his former wife), and though she once or
twice struck him with book or that cul-
mary tool used for turning hot cakes,
(both of which she acknowledges, saying
he tainted, insulted and goaded her to
DESPERATION, he can not again ingratiate
himself with the decent people OF this
community. The manner OF his deser-
tion is too mean and despicable to permit
of that. He is censured all over the city,
wherever the story has spread, and de-
servedly so. Had he gone away and yet
left the household goods for his wife, but
little would have been said against him
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