The San Francisco call., 1898-07-27
MRS. STANFORD
 GETS DIVORCED She Will Probably Marry
 Friend Barmore. CASH DOWN PAID FOR HER HE JOCKEY FELL IN LOVE WITH THE sCHooLMA'AM. He Turns Her Over to the Man He Befriended and Will Ride
 Through Life for
 While Alone.

The marital troubles of SteepIechase Jockey Stanford and his wife, Gertrude, are over. compromise has been eff fected whereby the correspondent in the Australians divorce suit, Barmore, by the payment of a certain goodly sum, takes Mrs. Stanford off the hands of her husband for good and all.
 That Stanford Is pleased does not ex- press 1t. and that Barmore will marry the erring woman who Is now allowed divorce is fairly certain. The story back of the trouble of the Stanfords is a rather remarkable one.
 Rider Stanford married Gertrude back In Chicago something over three years ago, when under contract to Messrs. Cor rigan and Brenock. Being impressed with the fact that she was an educated woman, he grew to have affec- tion for her and married the woman, bringing her to California Here he told his friends that she was a schoolma' am. She had been one In a little town in Wis consin some years previously, so that no person out this way suspected that the meek little woman had been other than what he represented.
 Some time after the Stanfords had come to the Golden State they met Barmore, who was connected with a wholesale Jewelry establishment. Barmore went to
 
 chase rider, lost considerable money, fin- ally becoming "short" $200 in his &C., counts. Stanford influenced him to bet S2OO upon. Gold Dust (his mounD one day, and as the horse won at odds of 8 to 1, the young jeweler was enabled to make good his shortage and to have a neat sum with which to continue his turf Barmore would ever be his friend.
 Early last spring the horse pilot was suspended indefinitely by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, and not seeing any signs of being reinstated, he went to India, where he had formerly ridden race horses. While in Singapore he received a letter from an old friend living at Benicia, Cal. which led him to believe Furthermore, 1t was hinted in the epistle that his wife and others had plotted to get him out of the country.
 Stanford immediately took the steamer for f,3 San Francisco. coming by way of Shanghai. One of the first persons he met here was Barmore, who informed cago. Barmore kindly offered to let Stan ford have the money to take him to the Middle West metropolis and urged him S %heg rested a ne he R left oa day HR Gr ar1 at Chicago he met Hand, the handicap per, who had known the couple we'll in SalifoTnia: Ihfd1d Hand md not not only informed there but that he suspected she had sold all the household effects and was living with Barmore as Mrs. Barmore
 Upon his return here the timber r-top- ping jockey found that Hands suspicious were very correct. While Stanford was in the Windy City his wife had brought suit for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and assertion, and he returned in the nick of time to defend himself. So infuriated was Stanford over what he had learned that upon meeting Barmore he "took a shot" at the despoier of his home, the bullet doing no further damage than to lacerate the jewelry mans coat tails. Barmore, for some reason best known to himself. merely had Stanford arrested and charged with threatening his life saying nothing of the shot the rider had taken at him.
 Stanford got out of the Barmore trouble and his lawyer wanted to have the jew elry man arrested.
 Then followed the compromise by which Stanford is enriched considerably and the Wisconsin schoolteacher, etc.