The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-27
HOW GILLESPIE WON HER
Story of Mrs. Lucas Infatuation
for the Sheep Shearer.
LUCAS PURSUED THEM
When They Fled From His Home They
Carried Away His Household Goods.
Another Development in a
Sensational Case.

There was another development in
the sensational Lucas case yesterday
when w. NJ. Simpson, attorney for
Charles H. Lucas, the plaintiff, flied
motion to strike from the files of the
court the answer of Richard William
Gillespie, who claims to be the hus-
band of the woman Lucas claims as a
wife. In support of this motion an
affidavit made by Lucas is filed.
In this affidavit is set forth the man
ner in which Gillespie and Mrs Luz
cas- fled from Lucas, and it also con-
tains an agreement entered into be-
tween Lucas and Mrs. Lucas, made
after the woman's alleged marriage
with Gillespie, in which Mrs. Lucas
practically admits that she is the wife
of Lucas and not of Gillespie, signing
her name Lydia Adeline Lucas"
Following is the affidavit:
Charles H. Lucas, being first duly
sworn, deposes and says:
THAT he is the plaintiff in the
above entitled cause; that he, this af-
fiant and the defendant herein, did
In the month of May, 1893, in the city
of Chicago, state of Illinois, and with
the intent of becoming man and wife,
lived and cohabited together; that soon
thereafter the defendant wrote to her
people that she was married to this
plaintiff and urged her sister to come
and spend the summer with her, which
the said sister did; that this affiant
and the defendant herein published to
the world by their acts and their lives
that they were man and wife; that as
a nP tIe cof1 not 10
affiant and the defendant two child
rem, boy and girl, came to glad
den their hearts and their home; that
the plaintiff and the said defendant
lived happily together for the period
of about five years, or until on or
about the 18th day Of March, 1898,
when these parties, the plaintiff and
defendant, met one Richard William
Gillespie, the party whose answer in
the above entitled action was filed on
the 22d day of July, 1899: that on or
about the date last above mentioned
the plaintiff, as was his custom to do
to all persons with whom he associ-
ated, introduced the defendant herein
to the said Gillespie as Mrs. Lucas,
wife of this affiant; that soon after
the said meeting with the said Gill
lespie the said Gillespie CHANGED to
learn of the nature of the union, mar
riage, existing between the plaintiff
said Gillespie, almost Immediately
thereafter, according to this atlantis
best information and belief, set about
to win the affections of the said de-
PENDANT from this plaintiff, and led the
said defendant to believe that she, the
said defendant, was not legally bound
to this plaintiff and was free to leave
this affiant at any time and could
marry whom she pleased that there
after, on or about the 21st day of
June, 1885, while this affiant was away
from home, the said Gillespie visited
the defendant herein, and the two
took considerable of the personal eff
fects of this affiant and atlantis two
children and skipped the country, a
partial account of which was publish
ed in the Medicine Hat News, a paper
published in the town of Medicine Hat.
N. w. T., Canada, on the 7th day of
July, 1898. copy of which said news
paper article is hereto attached, mark
ed Exhibit A. and made a part of
this affidavit; that this affiant follow
ed the said parties into Montana and
overlook them at Shelby Junction, in
Teton county, where he secured his
two children. and Immediately there
after instituted legal proceedings
against them, the said Gillespie and
the said defendant; that later and
after entering into a certain agreement
in writing with the defendant herein,
this affiant dismissed said legal pro-
ceedings: that the said agreement
bears date of July 2, 1898, was written
by the said Gillespie, signed and sworn
to by this affiant and the said defend
ant before William Dawes, justice Of
the peace in and for Marias township,
Teton county, Montana; that a true
copy of the said agreement is here