Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-06-19
DESERTED BRIDE.

ly-left his wife.
The bride was formerly Miss Jennie
Lind Lewis of Lowell, Mass, and is
Well known among theatrical people
from four years work on 1.-The stage with
the Gayest Manhattan and other COM.
lpanies. She also did considerable
concert work in New England, where
she was recognized as a leading So
prano, possessing a remarkably sweet
voice Of great power.
Her marriage was almost as unusual
as her desertion. Their engagement
was announced several months ago and
the date for the marriage arranged,
but her father had a paralytic stroke
prior to the date. OF the event. He would
not consent to aspostponement and his
condition was such that the presence
OF his daughter was almost imperative.
The ceremony was performed on the
date set and within the hour DR.. Evans
returned to Fargo and his bride waited
some weeks until her fathers condi-
ton was sufficiently improved.
She Joined the doctor here and they
had established themselves in a COM
Portable home and seemed to be enjoy
ing an ideal honeymoon. Just ten
days after her arrival the doctor tele-
phoned one evening that he was called
to Davenport, twenty miles from Far
go, professionally. Since then his
disappearance has been as complete
as it is inexplicable,
All efforts to trace him have been
futile and little else has been learned
than that he purchased a ticket for the
east, but to what point cannot be de-
Itermined. He took none of his med
ical Instruments and no extra clothing.
The condition in which he left the
office: and his private papers would
seem to indicate that his absence was
not premeditated.
Sudden arrangement, foul play and
elopement with a woman are among
the reasons assigned. He has been
away two weeks and no indications OF
the two former hayessdeveloped and de-
tspite the fact that Mrs. Evans clings
Ito one OF those theories and believes
that the doctor will be able to explain
everything satisfactorily, the general
public connects his disappearance with
that OF another woman gg ,s IL ID
It is alleged that for nearly two
years he has been infatuated with q
well known dining room girl, Belle
Quackenbush, who has a married sis.
ter here. !
The alleged intimacy was aysmattel
of considerable comment but wa not
regarded &as sufficiently serious K
cause a scandal OF such proportions as
has developed. The beauty and &C.
accomplishment of the bride are So eyi.
dent that his friends cannot .belieye
the doctor eloped with the woman
without suffering from some mental
arrangement. N
Miss .!Quaekenbush is reported te
have asserted that II, Wa at her Te.
quest the doctor had left his bride al
the altar and thatghe would eventually
win him, and her former employer Re,
garded her condition a few days prior
te the disappearance OF both as Dor.
dering somewhat on mental derange.
meesnt. Some Of the physicians friends
thought for the first day ! two hpe had
taken the girl aWay to avoid a scene
but ashesh has been gone, over two weeks
they now think he must have eloped
The girl is thought to have gone away
two days prior to the disappearance D
the doctor. s5S
DR.. Evans had been located In Fargo
two years and had a paying practice
He graduated in '97 at the BaItimort
Medical College, standing seventh ins
class of 14O. After a year or two IL
the hospital he came west. His rela
tives live at Rome, N. 7. They have
been unable to trace him, and the ef
forts Of detectives to locate the missing
couple in Wisconsin, the home oof Mis-
Q~uackenbush, have also failed.
Mrs. Evans still remains iii Fargo
and with 4 wioman's unwayerinllg faitl
in the mar she loves, still believes til,
mystery will be cleared UP Withou
shame or disgrace
DESTROYED by FIRE.