The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-10-04
HUNTER ENACTED ROLE
OF ENOCH ARDEN
Enlisted in Army And Had
His Wife Notified That
He Was Dead

hind the EnOCn Afden ldie ludt Ndthe
TO light at Marshall. this county, last
May and which was published at that
time. It was then related that vii
liam Hunter enlisted in the army at
the outbreak of the war with Spain
and left a wife at their home TO await
his return. He did not come back
but report fro mCuba informed his
waiting wife and friends that he was
dead-with Spanish bullet in his
brain.
That was good while AGO and in
the natural course of events the Wi
dow married again Her husband was
G. T. Comart, of Marshall The sec
ond marriage was as happy as the
first had been The love of the wife
for the soldier became the love Of the
other and Mrs Comart was happy
with her second husband
Mrs. Hunter Notified.
one day a letter came to Mrs.
Hunter announcing that her husband
would be at Hennessey one day of
the week. The letter did not seem
like It was real to the widow who had
become again wife. She went TO
Hennessey accompanied by her latest
husband. however. and met her hus-
band who was supposed to be dead.
He had been alive ali the time ana
holds a commission in the United
States army in the Philippines He
had returned for his wife. Explain
ations were made and then a touching
bit of real chivalry was seen. The
husband who was not the husband
saw the situation He recognized
ihe prior right OF the soldier man.
He loved the woman, aud perhaps ne
saw that she still loved the soldier
whom She thought to be dead. In
any event the soldier went to ST.
Louis with his wife recovered from
the embrace of a husband whom she
had taken because she believed her
first husband to have been dead
Freaks That Fate Plays.
They win go 10 the Philippines to-
gether and take up the new life that
they left of when ne went away to
the war. The husband who was not
a husband is left forlorn and alone.
witL the cheer taken from his life.
with a deserted hearthstone and a
sad heart The story Is a peculiar
one and shows the strange freaks
that fate plays on The man or on the
woman whose life admits of any var
iation from the dead level Of the com
monplace.
Recently there has come to light
the reason OF William Hunter passing
as dead, his reason for joining the
army. and for not returning to the
wife aud child after the war The
story of the affair is as interesting as
the Enoch Arden edition after the i'm
mediate return of Hunter
Hunter" so the story goes, was
a sub agent OF the Santa Fe at Ard
more He slept in the station and
one night shot and killed a fellow who
was climbing through the station
window evidently for the purpose OF
robbery. hTe fellow turned out to
be prominent young man of the vi
entity and although his object in at
tempting to ente, the station never
became known, the people Of the
neighborhood were greatly wrought
up over The killing
Hunter Left the County.
Hunter became afraid and thought
It best to leave the country, which he
took little time in doing Going o
Denver, he worked awhile then to
lose his identity. If possible, because
there was a search being made for
him in regard to the Ardmore killing
ne enlisted in the army and went 10
Cuba. Before the close OF the war
there was rumor came that Hunter
had been killed in battle. and as he
never came back, the rumor was be
lieved. the wife afterward marrying
Gomart
When the wife married again she
had a son. growing into the teens
who went TO Omaha Neb.. where he
resided with his grandfather Hunter
oa farm After an absence Of two
years the boy pleaded to come bacl
- Hennessey 10 visit his mother
promising TO return 20 Omaha in
few weeks The grandfather wa
loaihe 10 lose the lad and did no