The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-17
THE WAYOt A WOMAN
SHE WANTS TO MARRY HER FIRST
HUSBAND A SECOND TIME.


They Had Loved and Partcd-He Went
West. and She Married Another Man.
An Odd Story of Mixed Love Matters and
Financial Crookedness.
A remarkable story Of love, adventure
and crime has recently come to light il
Sioux City, Ia. Eleven years ago ID. w.
Wilsey owned q Elc farm in Monol
county, Ia. lie had as a tenant for sew
eral years Mrs. William II, Gipger, a
handsome young wiGow, W ho lived with
her mother and two brothers and had
two sons of her own. Five years before
Mr.. Gigger had left their home in Iowa
: for the west to make his fortune among
the mines. For two years he had CORE
sponded with his wife, and then he was
lost sight Of. Information came to Mrs
Gigger that her husband had been
drowned, and she accepted this story of
his fate.
She got a divorce, and when Mr..
Wilsey, who was widower with six
children, proposed to her he was accept
ed, and they were wed. Later they
moved into Woodbury. county, near
Sioux City, and continued farming.
Wilsey was good farmer and accumu-
lated considerable property. A few
years ago they moved over into Nebras-
ka and rented farm near Homer,
where they lived until within the past
year. Mrs. Wilsey's maiden name was
Jennie Tisdale, and she was woman
of good education and literary tastes.
She became a writer for the newspapers
and agricultural journals and was long
q 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, and
she and her husband lived happily to-
gether.
About year ago Mr.. Wilsey was told
by Mr.. Connors of this city that Mrs.
Wilsey's first husband was still alive,
and that he (Connors) had seen him in
Durango, Colo. When Wilsey told his
wife this story, she refused to believe 1t,
but together the two again questioned
Connors about the strange meeting he
had with Gigger. They became con-
vinced that Connors was telling the
truth. aud, 70 make sure Of the matter,
| it was agreed between Wilsey and his
wife that she should go to Colorado and
find whether the man was really her
| first husbap She went and found Mr..
Gigger. That was in December last.
She wrote back to her husband that she
had found Mr.. Gigger and wanted to
| again marry him. He wrote her that il
wouldn't do until she got another di-
vorce, and hey agreed that she should
be permitted to get the divorce as soon
as possible.
She returned home from Colorado
and continued to live with Nh. Wilsey.
and it was agreed between them that 1t
would be better to get the divorce in
| some other state than Iowa or Nebraska
to avoid comment among their friends.
She went to Omaha, and he joined her
| there on Feb. 10, and together they
went to Trinidad, Colo. Soon thereafter
| it was discovered that Wilsey owed
large sums in Dakota county, Neb., and
that much of his personal property ON
| which there had been mortgages had
been removed. 1t was found that some
of this property had been shipped from
Sioux City to Trinidad. Warrants issued
charging Wilsey with taking mortgaged
! property out of the state, and the sher-
| iff of Dakota county set out to find him.
He found Mrs. Wilsey in Trinidad, and
| her two sons were there running liv-
cry stable. Wilsey had gone to Red Riv-
| er, n. NJ, and the sheriff followed the
trail there and found Wilsey hauling
sand in the mining camp. He returned
here without requisition. For some
time before his departure Wilsey had
! been disposing of his property and bor-
| rowing all the money he could. Chat
tel mortgages remain uncanceled to the
amount Of about $40, 900, and but lit
tie OF the property can be found. He
| had been prominent in business and
politics.
Still stranger is the fact that Mrs.
Wilsey elected to leave good home to
join her fortunes with Gigger, her first
husband. He had led wild and rowing
life in the west the past 6 years under
the name of Doc Brown. 1t is not
known here just where he is located,
but Mrs. Wilsey is in communication
| with him.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.