Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-02-08
HRED, HENDRRsCHOTT
He Now Says FIis Wife Tried to-
Poison Him, but His Story
Not Believes.

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sehott scandal has again come into
prominence by the filing of bill Of
divorce .insthe Superior Court of Cook
county BY. Frederick G. Henderschott
against his wife. Mrs. Catherine Hender
schott. III. Z =4 tss$
Early last fall Frederick C. Hender-
schott, editor of the Fair-Dealer, q
weekly newspaper published in this
city, deserted his wife and two children,
and afterwards notified her@that it was
his desire that the matrimonial relations
existing between them, be annulled, as
he would under no circumstances return
to live with her. This information was
conveyed. to Mrs. Henderschott by the
business partner of her husband, j.. NJ
Higgins. Upon being informed of the
situation; Mrs. Henderschott engaged
the services of Attorney C. S. Cullen
and upon the following day a bill for
separate maintenance was fled by Mrs
Henderschott and an injunction secured
restraining the defendant from disposing
of any of. his property. Subsequent
events developed the fact that all the
property Henderschott possessed repre-
sented'money loaned to him by his wife.
Before the case ever came to trial an
agreement was made by the husband
and wife whereby the two should live
apart for the rest of their lifetime and
that the defendant should return to his
wife all her property, amounting in all
to about $500. The bill was afterwards
dismissed and Mrs. Henderschott and
her mother and two children left for
Braddock, North Dakota, to reside.
As an: excuse for his contemplate
conduct F. @. Henderschott assaulted his:
mother-in-law in an article published in
his paper and charged that she was to
blame for the trouble that had arisen
between himself and his wife. r.
On the other hand Mrs. Henderschott
and the neighbors claimed that the
mother-inlaw story was but an artful
dodge of Henderschott's to conceal as
much as possible the real facts in the
case. 1t was freely reported that the
defendant had become infatuated with
a Miss, Heian Blanchard, a compositor
who worked in the Fair Dealer Office
and resided with her father, Geo. l.
Blanchard, at 227 Clark street. Later
events have satisfied many persons that
Mrs. Henderschott's~ story was correct.
According to statements made by the
police and accounts published in the
daily papers, al elopement was only pre-
vented by the vigilant watch maintained
by the young lady's father. AS time
passed, matters grew worse instead of
better. Miss Blanchard left her fathers
house and refused to return, while the
broken hearted father sought out Nor
man Kilburn and asked him if he could
not invoke the aid of the law in the pro-
lection of his family. The matter was
referred to States Attorney Cullen, and
while he was investigating matters word
was conveyed to Ottawa by Chicago at
torneys that divorce proceedings had
been instituted by Henderschott against
his wife in the Superior court of Cook
county.
F. G. Henderschott, the complainant,
by his attorneys, Ayers, Rinaker &
Ayers of Chicago, and Buffers d Carr,
of this city, states under oath that he is
a resident of Cook county and that on
Aug. II, 1891, he was married to Gather
ir e Corcoran in the city Of Bismarck,
North Dakota, and that from that time
to. Aug. l, 1900, he lived with her as
husband and "conducted himself to-
wards her as a true, kind and indulgent
husband"
After this formal introduction, Hen
derschott goes on to say that on the
10th of April, 1900, his wife, Catherine
Henderschott, did wilfully and ma
liciously attempt to take his life by
placing arsenic Or some other poisonous
Substance in his morning drink" and
that during the latter part of July, 1900,
she repeated the dose. The complainant
says that he then left his wife and went
to live with his brother, Herman Hen
derschott, The complainant says that
he is the father Of two children, but does
not ask for their custody.
The strange part of the whole business
is that Henderschott should now charge
his wife with trying to poison him, when
in a statement in his OWE paper he exon
Grated her from all blame, and said that
she was a faithful wife and an affection
ate mother.
For some time past Henderschott has
been living in Chicago, where he claims
to have a suite of furnished rooms, but
this has been denied by Mrs ,Hender-
schott who has fled an answerkandraised
the question of jurisdiction. Mrs. Hen
derschott, the Journal is informed. pro-
poses to fight the proceeding to a finish,