The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-23

arrested today on a capias charged
with the seduction Of Helen Edith
Barnes and the alienation OF her af-
fections from her husband. Helen Ed
it'll Barnes is a very prominent and
attractive woman and the sensation
over the affair here is the greatest
known in local history. Mcgowan was
taken at once to the Mercer county
Jail and detained under $4,000 bond.
The heavy bail was arranged because
of the belief that Mcgowan was max
ing arrangements for slipping of to
Mexico.
The people are dumfounded. Mag
owan has been rated a millionaire and
has been a candidate for governor OF
New Jersey. The woman whom he is
charged with seducing has been en-
ineptly respectable and all parties con-
cerned the least suspected OF wrong
doing or disgrace.
According TO his complaint Barnes
and his wife were married May It'll,
1855, in Toronto, Canada. Her name
was Helen Edith Riddal. They have a
daughter, Beryl. the only child born to
them. who is now five years old. In
May. 1894. Barnes came TO Trenton as
superintendent of the Eastern Rubber
company. one of the concerns con-
trollled by Mcgowan. Shortly there
after Mcgowan, ii is alleged, induced
Barnes to move into a house which
Mcgowan was leaving for a mansion
adjoining. Mcgowan represented to
Barnes that If the house suited him he
would let him have IL for a nominal
sum.
In March last, Barnes says he made
the discovery that his wife was infat-
uated with Mcgowan, and that the lat
ter was on such terms of intimacy with
her that his peace of mind was des-
troyed. Barnes alleges that after that
Mcgowan concerted with his wife at
different periods II hotels in New
York, Pittsburg. Toronto and other
cities. On the 18th of March last, on
his return from a business trip in the
west he learned that Mcgowan had
taken his wife and child to New York
and going there the following morn
ing discovered the party at breakfast
in the Imperial hotel.
On April II Barnes declares he dis
covered Mcgowan and his wife in a
compromising position at the hotel An
derSon in Pittsburg. On July q, they
were registered under assumed names
at the hotel Davery. New York.
Barnes swears further that Mcgowan
has visited his wife at all hours of the
day and night at their home in this
city and that he frequently sent him
(Barnes) out on business trips for the
purpose of consorting with her. At
times when he found Mcgowan at his
house during unseemly hours he has
chased him therefrom and only Mag
owan escaped his wrath by scaling the
fence at the dead of night.
His wife, Barnes says. seems oom-
pletely under Magowan's control and
both are now living at the Hotel Win
dsor, New York Mcgowan has made
Mrs Barnes believe he intends to mar
ry her, directly he shall be divorced
from his own wife.
Mrs. Barnes refuses to return TO
Trenton, her husband says, in the COM
plant, and in response to his entreat-
les TO do so she repeatedly declares
she loves the ground that Mcgowan
walks on and that she will not leave
him.
After his release on bail Mcgowan
had a long consultation with his attor-
neys which resulted in his application
for a warrant for Barnes upon the
charge of perjury. Barnes heard Of
the warrant and surrendered himself.
Upon being bought before the justice
who issued the warrant he waived ex-
animation and was held in $1,000 bail.
Mcgowan has also threatened to cause
the arrest of G. H. Beardsley, Barnes
counsel. Barnes got bail and was re-