The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-07
This ENOCH ARDEN
DEMANDS HIS Wife
Returns in Stubborn Mood
After TWenty-eight Years.
MIND HAD BEEN A BLANK
Mrs. Gilman, Now Mrs. Daubert, and Her
Second Husband, Agree to Separate
and Divide Their Property-Gilman
Said to Have Inherited a Fortune.

READING. Pa April IA strange and
unusual story viii eliminate some time
today near Emaus, BehiRh county. The
household Effects Of two elderly people.
man aud wife. viii be sold and the old
folk viii separate. an because a former
husband. thought to have died years ago,
has appeared and demands HIS wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Daubert for the
past week have been sorely troubled and
in tears Ever since the woman's first
husEstd. J. A. Gilman, appeared Daubert
and His wife could not be cOmforted. but
frequently walked the floor all night long
Mr.. Gilman VIII not surrender his claim.
will not consent to divorce. and as Mr.
and Mrs Daubert are Christian people.
and want no trouble in the law. they have
meekly agreed to separate. though il
break their hearts. They have all their
belongings torn up and separated. and
after everything is sold the receipts viii
be divided. share and share alike.
Gilman's Disappearance.
Daubert is slxty-one years Of age and
his wife ffty-one. Twenty-eight years
thompson lived in New York Gilman
went TO Doylestown. Pa. to work. Moth
ing was heard from him for a long time
until some one wrote to the wife in New
York that Gilman was dead. He had been
taken III and was thrown into an asylum,
where he remained for seventeen years
His mind became a blank. -Four years
after he became separated from his wife
she. thinking herself a widow. married
Daubert, and together they raised their
children.
A few years ago Gilman. who is now
sixty-six years old. was discharged from
the asylum. Il is said he received a legacy
Of $50 0O0 from rela ,ivs. in Camden. He
spent 5000 in searching for his wife and
children. but his mind was a blank.
FINALLY he recOIIected- the number Of his
Masonic lodge He went 20 Doylcstown.
and from there was directed to Frank
fort. Philadelphia After diligent search
married daughter was found and finally
The long missing wife vas found. Gilman
learned she had married again uniting
herself with a man fer whom she had
kept house. They united his FIVE children
and her two children and got along we'll
Three children were bora TO the union.
Demanded His Wife.
When Gilman went 20 see his wife she
recognized him. It was as II ne had risen
from the dead. He told her he wanted
her. as she was his lawful wife Daubert
and his partner f1r 50 many long and
happy years were Frustrated with grief.
but as Gilman was unrelentIng the sep
aratioI was agreed upon.
Gilman is not in the best Of health
Mrs. Daubert viii go with him 10 his
home in Philadelphia. Their children are
grown and married and doing we'll in sew
eral States. Daubert viii continue TO live
IN the old home and take care Of his aged
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs Daubert lived together
for twenty-fOUr years and their nelghb0rs
speak very highly OF them The elderly
friends Of the couple think il cannot be
possible that they could be made TO sep
arate, - Mrs. Gilman would never have
married had she not considered herself q
widow.