Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-08-10
Romantic Reunion of an Illinois
Couple, Who Parted After
Bitter Quarrel.
HUSBAND COMES FROM AUSTRALIA
Wrote His wife, Asking forgiveness, and
Arrived In tho Postofice In the OLD
Town Just as She Was Read
ing the Letter.

err TO see or speak with her again. The
whole story OF their meeting, courtship,
marriage and separation is more ro-
mantle than fiction. They were first
married seven years ago when she was
ID and he %. At the time of their first
meeting Mr.. Krader was a travelling
salesman for a New York shoe mouse.
His future wife, who was then Miss
Clara +. Jennings, was attending col
lege at Ann Arbor. Mich. Mr. Krader
himself was a graduate there and often
made n Town on his trips. He a a
younger brother attending there at the
same time that Miss Jennings did and
IL was through his brother that Mr..
Krader met the young lady. Both
seemed well pleased with each other
and after the second meeting n cores
pondence vas started between them
and each received a letter from the
other az east once a week.
Miss Jennings, who was left an or
phan in childhood, was sent to the pub
lie schools Of St. Louis until nearly JIG
years of age, when her aunt, with whom
h lived, for the benefit of her own
health moved TO the farm, sending
Clara to the college at Ann Arbor to
complete her musical education. In st.
Louis while attending the nigh school
Miss Jennings became acquainted with
a young fellow who paid her quite a
good deal of attention and when she
left there she was not quite IL years
of age and they had plighted their troth
and until some time after she met the
salesman she believed she loved him.
Krader, too, was engaged when he
met Miss Jennings. Soon after he met
Miss Jennings he knew that he did not
love the girl to whom he was engaged,
yet he hes!tated TO call off the engage
ment.
We'd and Move West.
After a few months courtship Mr..
Krader resigned his position with the
shoe house and took to the west and
entered the specializing field. The fol-
lowing spring he came back from the
west and he and Miss Jennings We're
quietly married. After a few weeks
trip through the east they went tc
make their home in Colorado. Though
each had promised to be perfectly
candid with each other, neither men
toned that they had been previously
engaged. They made n trip east &c
visit his old home and friends In New
York and her aunt in st. Louis. While
in New York Mr.. KraHer met his ole
flance. While he thought his wife visit
Ing with n former college friend lie
with his former sweetheart went to q
AN'hNN III AiS NNNiAAiibs lllS ~ nav
gone to visit her friend, but they de,
cided to see a play, and, as IL hap,
pened, they went to the same thcatel
where Mr.. krader had gone. A few
rows ahead she saw her husband. She
thought he acted strangely affectionat,
to the other m She did not men.
ton the matter to her husband when h,
came back that evening.
Thereafter she treated her husband
NInNNF coll L.. a. -.
started for st. Louis. Here she me
her former sweetheart and to spite he
husband for his actions in New Yorl
arranged to go with the young fellow
so that her husband should see her
Though she told him what she intende,
to do, he was q Wild and reckless am
careless young man.
Plan Does Not Work.
The husband had agreed to meet he
at one OF tie paVilions In Forest park
He came out sooner than expected ant
while walking toward the pavilion say
his wife and the young man. His 1eal
ousy was this time aroused and he fol
lowed. Passing through a clump @
bushes the young man seized Mrs
Krader and before she was aware ha,
pressed several kisses on her lips. I'll
Krader saw it. His anger at what h
thought his wife's unfaithfulnesS wa
too great to be restrained. He rusk c
forward, knocked the young fellAN
down and then seiZing his wife rougl IL
by the arm led her away. She wa
angry at the nan and angry at Ch
rough manner in which her husban
handled her. He began to upbraid he
and she retorted with what she saw /
New York. There was a half hour
bitter quarrel, each accusing the othe
OF unfaithfulness. Krader left, tellin
her that she never need expect to Sc
nor hear from him again. When Mr.
krader went home n rev days later sh
found hat he had drawn ali his none
from the bank and taken all his belong
ings from the house. Where he ha
gone none Of the neighbors knew. Sh
finally mastered herself, sold the fur
niture and went with her child to S
Louis to live with her aunt. Here sh
lived three years, hardly ever men
tioning her husband. Then her aur
died, and with the child she came agai
TO the farm near Nokomis. She rareI
saw anybody and did not go to tow
once n month. Through all the year
she kept her husbands picture on Tn
mantel and wore both her
and marriage rings all the time.
Both Regret Hasty Stop.
In the meantime Mr.. Krader left III
United States and went to Australi.