The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-26
rHE WAY OF A WOMAN
WANTS TO MARRY HER FIRST
'o- HUSBAND A SECOND TIME.

,,., Had Loved and rarted-He Went
- and She Married Another Man.
odd story of Mixed Love Matters and
,,..ncial Crookedness.
remarkable story OF love- adventure
or;me has recently come to light in
anu v civ. La. Eleven years ago ID. W.
s ar.'-o,, owned a fine farm in Monona
nnty. In. He had as tenant for sew
VO III wears Mrs. William II. Gigger, a
era Young widow, who lived with
10" ,otber and two brothers and had
~, cons of her own. Five years before
w W. Gigoer had left their home in Iowa
% .he west 10 make his fortune among
.So mines. For two years he had CORE
'nonded with his wife, and then he was
r. sight of. Information came to Mrs.
%;ooer that her husband had been
Srcwned, and she accepted this story of
his fate. n
u;Isev who was a widower with six
children, proposed to her he was accept
ID and they were wed. Later they
,~oved into Woodbury. county, near
SONY City, and continued farming.
w;lsev was q good farmer and accumu-
lated considerable property. A few
Gears ago they moved over into Nebras-
Ia and rented farm near Homer,
where they lived until within the past
reor Mrs. Wilsey's maiden name was
Jennie Tisdale, and she was woman
% Good education and literary tastes.
She became writer for the newspapers
and agricultural journals and was long
a valued contributor to the Iowa Home
stead of Des Moines. She was clever
writer and woman of bright and new
IDEAS Hers was model home, ant
che and her husband lived happily to
gether,
About a year ago Mr.. Wilsey was TOLD
nv a Mr. Connors of this city that Mrs
Wilsey's first husband was still alive
and that he (Connors) had seen him il
Durango, Colo. When Wilsey told hi
wife this story, she refused to believe II
but together the two again questione
Connors about the strange meeting h
had with Gigger. They became con
WINGED that Connors was telling tn
truth. and, to make sure of the matter
il was agreed between Wi J and hi
wife that she should 60 to Colorado an
find whether the man was really ne
first husband. She went and found Nj
digger. That was i'll December las
She wrote back to her husband that 81
had found Mr. Gigger and wanted
again marry him. He wrote her that
wouldn't do until she got another d
yorce. and they agreed that she shou
be permitted to get the divorce as SOC
as possible.
She returned home from Colora'
and continued to live with Mr. Wise
and it was agreed between them that
would be better to get the divorce
some other state than Iowa or Nebrasl
TO avoid comment among their frleho
She went to Omaha, and he joined n
\ there OH Feb. 10, and together III
went to Trinidad, Colo. Soon thereaf'
il was discovered that Wilsey ow
large sums in Dakota county, Nep', q
that much of his personal properly
which there had been mortgages
been removed. 1t was found that Sol
of this property had been shipped ir'
\ Sioux City to Trinidad. Warrants lssu
charging Wilsey with taking mortgae
property out of the state, ana the sn
if of Dakota county set out to find III
He found Mrs. Wilsey in Trinidad
her two sons were there running
cry stable. Wilsey had gone to ked N
er, N. NJ, and the sheriff followed
= trail there and found Wilsey haul
= sand in the mining camp. lie return
here without "a requisition. For SO
time before his departure Wilsey
been disposing of his property ana
rowing all the money he could vi
tel mortgages remain uncanceled 10
amount of about $4,000 and put
tie of the property can be founo.
had been prominent in business
politics. ,
Still stranger is the fact that N
Wilsey elected to leave good nom
Join her fortunes with Glgger' her
husband. He had led wild ana ROY
life in the west the past 10 years III
\ the name of Doc Brown. IL Is
known here just where he Is loc"
but Mrs. Wilsey is i'll communio'
with him. st. Louis Globe-Denio'
Saw Him In n Mirror'