Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-05
WIFE AS HIS SISTER.
HUSBAND MARRIED ANOTHER
 WOMAN.
Led fo Do This by LOve-she Played Her Part in Silence and in Agony, bnt at Length Left Her Home-A Strange Story. g

Strange Story. g
 It Is seldom that a wife will stand quietly by and see her husband welded to another woman, yet such story is told of herself by Mrs. John J. Me Gutre, formerly of Wellston, Mo-, but now of Alton, III. As an explanation i for her aeQliescence in the peculiar arranee-ac@ &rs. McGuire says she was iHo.a.seej i by intense love and con- hdence sa aer husband to accept the position q pseudo sister-in-law in the same house with his newly welded bride, upon his mere suggestion. Now she is sorry that it ever happened. l thinks that she has been misled, and the other afternoon journeyed to Clay ton to secure a certified copy of her marriage license in order to prove pos- itiYely that she was his wife, when she asks to have him legally punished, aa she declared that she intended to dc. In addition to the marriage license copy Mrs. Mcclure also secured a copy of her marriage certificate from Jus tiee Greensfelder, showing that she had been married by him to MT McGuire Aug. l5 1898. To the marriage olII- Rials at Clayton Mrs McGuire said that she had been acquainted with her bus- band for about one year before she welded him, and trusted implicitly in all that he proposed to her Conse- quently when he suggested that # would be better for them to give their addresses at Hillsboro. in St. Louis county, she readily consented. Mrs. MeGnire said that everything progress cd smoothly after their marriage until one day after Christmas, when the postman left a letter at their house, which created eonsternation. Accord ing to Mrs Mcclure, the letter was from Miss Frances Bryan, a former ac- Quaintance of her husband, in which she suggested that an immediate mar riage would be advisable. Mcclure was very much perplexed," said his wife, but he finally concluded to make full confession. He said that he could not absolutely ignore the letter, for he had promised to wed the writer
 
 not to desert him in the hour of need, but to help him out Of his emBar1ass4 ment When he could settle matters. he said, we would resume the relations of man and wife He then proposed that l consent to his marrying Miss Bryant, saying that could live with them as his sister-in-law until an op- V ff,r I, %O F.T tricate himself from the difficulty"
 Mrs. Mcclure says that she stood it as long as possible, living with her husband and his second wife, until about five weeks ago, when she con cluded thae her husband had no inten- ton of fulfilling his promise, and that her self-respect would not permit her to remain under his roof any longer. She accordingly left him and went to work in Alton. She says:
 We lived together happily enough until my husband received the letter one day from Miss Frances Bryant of Alton. Mr. Mcclure did not know what to do at first, but he finally con- fessed to me that she could make 1t hot for him if he did not comply with the demand. Then, when he made the proposition for me to help him out of the difficulty, I consented, as I loved him dearly. The marriage ceremony was performed in Alton. and after it was over I went with them to live. stood 1t until l became convinced that he would not make good his promise to me. He kept continually putting me off, and finally concluded that could not retain my self-respect and live in the same house with them. accordingly left without a cent and managed to eke out a scanty existence by the little work that could do in Alton.
 'For a long time did not know what to do, as my husband told me that # l made the acts public we we,l1 both 1 go to the penitentiary. He finally denied our marriage altogether and 1 raid I could not prove it. Our mar riage certificate had been destroyed. | and I came down here today simply to get copy of it in order to have the proof of my marriage. do not want to get into any trouble, and if com mitted any misdeed, did not do 1t knowingly. would still like to help | him out of this scrape if it is possible to do so
 A Row Raskin Story.
 characteristic new Ruskin story. the accuracy of which is vouched for