The San Francisco call., 1898-02-09
4 MODERN VERSION E OF
 EN0CH ARDEN Suit Involving Two Persons Guilty of
 Bigamy. Husband and Wife Who Had Each Married
 Again. Wornan's Action for Divorce Transferred to Butte
 County. SHE IS NOW A PAUPER. Wants g Portion of the Wealth of the Man She Believed Was
 Dead.
SHE IS NOW A PAUPER.
Wants g Portion of the Wealth of the Man She Believed Was
 Dead.
SD. cial Dispatch to The Call.

tOrney John T. IOrk, JuuBe hdIn or this county yesterday granted change of venue from Napa County to Butte County in the case of Elizabeth Clark vs. Palmer Clark.
 The simple beginning or the peculiar circumstances involved III thls Sult took pIace in Sacramento, where, in the wear 1861, Palmer Clark married a seemingly most companionable woman. He shortly took his departure by steamship around Cape Horn, expect ing to soon return to California and re- join his wife Clark, after arriving at New York, joined party Of immigrants who were bound for California. With them and the band of horses which he had procured he started for Sacra- mento. While on his way Clark left the party of immigrants temporarily. Tn vain did his comrades wait for his return. and, concluding that he had been killed by the Indians, they pro- ceeded to California. When the ar- gonauts arrived here they informed Mrs. Clark that her husband was dead, and from that time until about year ago Mrs. Clark supposed that she was a widow.
 Palmer Clark did not perish nor was he killed by Indians. He deserted his comrades and went back East and married another woman, by whom two daughters were born to him. In 1878 Palmer Clark, with his new wife, moved from the Eastern States to Butte County, Cal, where he has re- sided ever since.
 Shortly after Mrs. Clark was in- formed that her husband was dead she married a man in Sacramento by the name of T. A. Giauque. A few years later MT. and Mrs. Giauque moved to Napa County, near St. Helena, where Giauque, who at time was the possessor of great wealth, purchased a handsome home. Giauque was one of the moneyed Swiss of Napa Valley. He bought thousands of tons of grapes and paid cash for them. something that none of his neighbors could do, but notwithstanding his wealth, the newly married couple did not live happily together. Mrs. Giau- que had a violent temper, and she was not reluctant to vent her ire upon her husband when the opportunity pre- que, who did not quite respect the laws of the land, sent grape spirits under the guise of wine to purchasers. and she, learning of the deal, quietly in- formed the revenue officers of the United States. Giauque compromised the matter for the neat sum of s25,000
 Giauque once laid in his house a sack containing SluVV III soiu. hIS. biduquc appropriated the money to her own use and hurried to Sacramento, where she was afterward appre- hended by her husband. Most of the money was recovered and peace was made, and together the couple con- tinued to reside in Napa County.
 About twelve years ago the Napa Valley home which all these years the Giauques has occupied was lost fcroc ,6 Giauque and his wife then moved to Conn Valley, Napa County, and thence to Napa City. Here Mrs. Giauque still resides, and here Giauque about a year ago died. Of the two daughters of Palmer Clark and his first wife, one re- sides in Napa and is a single woman.
 The other daughter about twenty years ago married a brother of T. A Giauque. with whom she Is now re- Anon Giauque and Tuttie Giauque the two children of MT. and Mrs. Giau- que, are residents of Napa Valley Anon Giauque having been for years married and residing in Napa City while Futile lives in Rutherford with her husband, named Meyers.
 About a year ago Mrs Giauuue learned that her first husband was re- siding in Butte County. She went to see him and renamed over night, and told the second Mrs. Clark that her name was Mrs. Holt Clark when asked by his first wife what he pro- posed to do about his position in life stated that he thought things were all right and that he proposed to let them remain as they were. Mrs. Giau- que did not look at the matter in the same way, for she returned to Napa and at once instituted proceedings on the grounds of desertion, asking not only for a divorce, but alimony and a division of the property of Clark. of which there is a large amount. AS soon as Clark learned that the officers were locking for him for the purpose of serving him with divorce papers he notified them that they could find him at the home of his brother-in-law in Butte County. where he was found in accordance with his suggestion. His present wife is ignorant of the pro- ceedings taken to deprive her of her husband
 Palmer Clark Is a man of means to- day, but the legal proceedings will probably change his position. T. A. Giauque, the man once rich, was pov- erty-stricken long before he died, and Mrs. Giauque-perhaps legally Mrs. Clark-has for a long time been SUD- fnd hxy