The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-05-17
SHE LOVED NOT WISELY
A Minister'S Wife Elopcs With an
Exceedingly Tough Character.
NOW CHARGED WITH ADULTERY
The Outraged Husband Follows Them to Spo
kane But Is Disposed to Be Forgiving-
The Womans Sanity In Question.

| Five or six weeks ago Mrs. A. c..
Brackenbury, wife of the Methodist min
lister at frosser, was brought to the hos.
pital in this city to be operated upon for
appendicitis. While there she became
acquainted with young man named F.
p. Dingle, who was also an inmate OF the
hospital. The acquaintance ripened into
friendship, and they were together on
every possible occasion. Dingle had no
standing there or elsewhere, and was
known as ID "dope fiend" and general
worthless character. After Mrs. Brack
enbury left the hospital and secured
board in private family, this intimacy
continued and increased Dingle seemed
to exert power over her which culmi
mated on Thursday last in their leaving
for Spokane.
The bereft husband came to this citv.
and after an investigation, swore out
" arrant charging Dinge and his wife
Musa with unlawfully and felonlously
living together in a state of adultery.
The Rev. Brackenbury said the action Of
his wife had deadened his love for her
and that hereafter they would travel in
separate paths, but he wanted TO bring
Dingle to punishment. A telegram sent
to the authorities in Spokane resulted in
the arrest OF the couple in the Delaware
block, where they had taken xo3ms
Dingle claimed that be was from ago,
that the woman was his wife, and Ahat
they were on tour of the west. When
the Spokane Spokesman-Revie reporter
tried to interview them in their quarters
in the jail he found Dngle lying by the
side Of Mrs. Brackenbury with his shoes
under the bed Both refused to talk fur
ther than that Dingle maintained the
truth of the story previously told by him
and appeared indignant at the treatment
they were receiving.
The next day Sheriff Tucker and the
Rev. Brackenbury put in an appearance
and identified the prisoners Bracken-
bury had a private talk with his wife, sf-
ter which his rancor vanished and he
showed much solicitude for her comfort.
On Wednesday Dngle and Mrs. Brack-
enbury were brought to this city and the
woman was placed in charge of her hus-
band, who pledged his word that she
should have communication with no one
excepting himself until the examination,
which was set for O'Clock today, and
which was about to be called in Justice
Taggard's court at the time THE HERALD
was ready for press. Rev. and Mrs.
Brackenbury registered at the Hotel Bar
tholet. Dingle's quarters were in the
county jail
The truant woman is not much to look
at, in fact she is so thin and angular that
you have to look twice. before seeing her.
She has previously borne a very good
reputation, and the only explanation
that can be given for her recent conduct
is that ill health has caused mental de-
cadence. Dingle is also unpreposessing,
and if he is not criminal his face is a
great misfortune. He walks with limp.
the result OF bullet wound in the hip,
and he Spokane police claim that he is
an old offender against the laws of the
land, and that his photograph is not un-
known in the rogues' gallery 1t is
stated that when Mrs. Brackenbury was
told of his criminal career she seemed to
feel scandalized to learn that he was moi
a perfect gentleman. Dingle disclaims
having been unlawfully intimate with
the woman and maintains that he had
her under his protecting wing simply fol
her own good.
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