The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-14

Pronounced Absurd and Ridiculous by
the Friends of His wife-Statement
That he Wants the Divorce Merely for
the Purpose of Marrying Mrs Barnes
His Young Daughter just Entering So
| ciety-OkIahoma News.
Guthrie, o. T, Jan. 13.-(Special)-
| Mr.. Mcgowan is the divorce lion OF
| Oklahoma at present. He is seeking a
divorce at Ell Reno. A Philadelphia
| paper just received here says of the
| case: Frank A. Mcgowan has broken
| out a fresh. The ex-mayor and politi-
! cal leader of Trenton, n. J., has made a
| new bid for notoriety. The suit for
divorce which he some months ago
threatened TO bring against his wife
has been begun in Oklahoma City, o. I.
Mcgowan had extensively billed this
latest exploit by having himself inter-
viewed while stopping in New York.
At that time he volunteered the state
ment that he intended to secure OIL
vorce and then marry Mrs. Barnes,
wife Of the former manager of his Tren-
ton rubber mandatory. None OF unese
statements surprised Magowan's &C
quaintanlces. His attentions TO Mrs.
Barnes had been such that nobody
could help noticing them, and deep sym
paChy went out 10 Mrs. Mcgowan and
her charming daughter, who was just
entering society.
The surprise came when the grounds
named by Mcgowan in his petition for
the divorce became known. Dispa tches
from Oklahoma state that he alleges
that she has violent temper and that
for the last three years she has quarrel
ed with him continually, often in pub
lie, humiliating and disgracing him So
cially. He also declares that she
struck him and threatened him with
violence, at the same time using pro-
fame and indecent language. He says
in 1894 she struck him on the head with
a glass, cutting it, and in 1895 she tried
to kill him with a chair. He complains
that on various occasions she has
threatened to poison him, so that he has
been in constant fear OF his life. He
asks for an absolute divorce, barring
her from all interest in his property.
Even Magowan's closest friends in
the New Jersey capital thought that he
might not really begin divorce proceed
ings when it came to the point. They
wondered what his grounds would be,
and now that his petition reveals them
ridicule his charge that Mrs. Mcgowan
has a violent temper and has assaulted
him. His declaration that Mrs. Mago-
won had used vile. profane and indie
cent language" toward him, is denied
by his wifes friends, and even the ex-
mayors supporters express themselves
as agtonished at such charges. The
only explanation. Magowan's friends
offer for his charge that Mrs. Mcgowan
had struck him on the head with a glass
and later had threatened to kill him,
is that Mcgowan has become so enamor
ed of Mrs. Barnes that he is willing to
take long chances.
Judge Woodruff, Mrs. Magowan's
counsel, today sand that his client de-
MED each of the charges made by her
husband. 1.-THE suit for divorce will
be vigorously contested continued the
Judge, land the charges proved false.
The charges of assault are ridiculous.
and as for Mrs. Magowan's temper and
quarrelsomeness her quarrels have sim
ply been expostulationS with him for
his bad conduct" When seen at the
handsome villa on Clinton avenue Mrs.
Mcgowan declined to discuss her do
nestle affairs.
SUES FOR ISLANDER.
Guthrie, Q. II, Jan. 13.-(SpeciaL)-F.
W. Hewitt, cashier of the Bank of the
Indian Territory, and treasurer of the
local school board, filed suit in the dis
trict court Saturday against S. f. See
ley, charging Islander. The informa-
ton filed reads as follows:
In the district court for Logan county,
Oklahoma
Territory of Oklahoma, plaintiff, VS.
S. E. Seeley, defendant. Information
for SANDER.
Now comes A. H. Houston, county at
toTney for said county of Logan, and
gives the court to know and be inform
ed that on the 9th day of January, a. D.
1895, in said county Of Logan and terri
tory Of Oklahoma one S. E. Seeley did
there and then unlawfully, wilfully and
malicfously utter and publish these
false scurTilous and cOntemptous words
of and concerning one F. w. Hewitt:
You are "a Cd d-ned scoundrel,' You
are Cd d-nfd dirty scoundrel,' You
are Cd d-ned thief You are a Cd
d-ned dirty villain Cd d-n you,
you are robbing the school treasury"
meaning the said F. VI. Hewitt The
aforesaid utterances and publications
being unprivileged and exposing the
said F. NJ. Hewitt to contempt. ridicule
and obloquy, and tending to deprive the
said Hewitt of public confidence and
to injure him in his occupation of bank
err
Contrary TO the stautue in such case
made and provided and against the
peace and dignity Of the Territory Of
Oklahoma.
A II. HOUSTON,
County Attorney.
Territory of Oklahoma, County Of Lo-
gan, IS.
F. W. Hewitt being duly sworn upon !
his oath depoSes and says: that he
knows the contents of the above and
foegOing information. and that the ale |
cations therein contained are true.
T. W. HEWITT.
Subscribed and sworn to before me !
this 18th day Of January. 1896.