Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-22
Iowa Central Fireman Accom-
plishes a Nest Daring Crime
at Webster City
DESERTS WIFE AND BABIES
With Wife and Three Children Living
in This City He Goes Fifteen Miles.
to Clemens, to Woo and Wed Miss
Emma MitchelI-Most Bold and Pre-
meditated Crime Imaginable.

With his wife and three little chill
hart, a we'll known Iowa Central fire
man. with a run on the Story City
branch out of this city, has forsakei
the love of his family, the respect OF his
friends and committed the crime OF
bigamy almost before the very eyes
of his lawful wife. So bold and daring
did Isenhart become in his preineditat-
ed crime that he went to Clemens. only
fifteen miles away and not outside the
county, to WOO and wed Elnnla Mitch
ell, aged %, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
/ w. NJ. Mitchell. well-known residents
of that place. The couple was married
a week ago tomorrow in Webster City,
in the presence of the brides brother
and sister. and are now in the west en-
Ijoyins; their illegal honeymoon. while
a heartbroken Wife and mother, and
grief stricken parents of the girl he
has deceived, are left behind.
Information OF the alleged marriage
at Webster City came to The T.-R.
/ indirectly q few days ago, but was not
sufficiently tangible to warrant its pub
| LEGATION until the facts from several
sources could be carefully investigated.
| Mrs. Isenhart was visited ami asked If
she knew, or had any reason to be-
1 lieye, that her husband had deserted
her, or worse still, had become married
1 to another woman. The wife was
shocked at the story, and could not
suppress her indignation that such a
tale could have origin in the minds of
any of her husbands friends. Mrs.
| Lydia Isenhart. the mother was also
| seen. She is in the city spending the
summer at her sons home, and with
her daughter, Mrs. f. Bovee, at Green
Mountain. She too was not inclined
to believe that there was even the
| shadow of truth In the story that was
| told her by the newspaper man. Mrs.
| Isenhart the wife, said that her hus-
| band had taken a sixty days leave
| Of absence on Tuesday, July Ia, and
had left Wednesday evening for Dem
| yer, where he hoped the climate would
benefit him. He had told both her and
his mother that he would try and Sc
| cure work while in Colorado, and II
| he did he would send for his wife and
family Mrs. Isenhart stated that her
husband had not been we'll for several
weeks, having complained nlore or less
| OF headaches.
| While it began to look ms If there
might not be. after all, any founda-
ton for such sensational story, to the
effect that Isenhart had bFen married
! in Webster City. the T.-R. was not
exactly satisfied, as the rumor was so
| very persistent. The T.~R.s CORE
lspondent at Webster City was tele-
graphed, asking II license to wed
had been granted A. e. IsWnhart, loco
motive fireman, and Emma Mitchell, II
so who swore to the affidavit, and had
the couple been married. A reply was
received as follows:
Webster City, July 21.-Times- Re
publican: A marriage license was is
July 16 to A. e. Isenhart, Of Marshall
town. and Miss Emma Mitchell. of
\ Clemens Grove The affidavit was
sworn TO by w. II. Mitchell, brother
TO Miss Mitchell. 1t states that Isen-
harris age is 33 and Miss Mitchells %
The couple was married the same af-
ternoon at the Wilson Hotel by Rev.
II. f. Burns, OF the Christian church
The marriage return states that 1t is
the. first marriage of each, and that
Isenharts occupation is that of To-
connective fireman"
With this information Of a positive
nature in hand Mrs. Isenhart the wife
and Isenhart's mother were again Wis
tied Neither had heard anything
more, not even, an intiInation, aside
from the conversation of the previous
day, that their husband and son had
been married a second time. When
shown the telegram both burst into
tears, and for the first time would be-
lieve that the story OF tsenhart's in
fidelity was only too true. The mother
stated that the devil must have him
sure. for she never had raised a boy
to do a thing like that Its not like
Albert at ALL she said, "and he wasn't
himself when he did this thing, for he
would have known that he was COM
hitting a crime against his country
and against God. ] can hardly believe
it even now, altho the proof does seem
positive"
Mrs. Isenhart, the wife, said she
could not believe it, even tho the evil
dence against him seemed plain. 81
certainly have never given him any
cause to act this way" she added, "and
he has always been te, me loving
husband"
Finds Letter.
; When asked if she had ever had any
; cause to think that her husband nigh,
be paying attentions &c Miss Mitchell
the wife said that now that she ha ]
seen the womans name she remem-
bered that two weeks ago she found
Il letter, partially written in her hus-
bands hand in his coat pocket. The
letter was to Miss Emma Mitchell, OF
Clemens, and started out as would ar
ordinary love letter. She asked hin
about It, as she knew he had writer
it, and he explained that he was cor
responding to the girl for friend OF
his, another railroad man, and gave
her his name Mrs. Isenhart says she
advised him to quit such work, for she
feared that 1t might make trouble fol
him. Mrs. 1senhart says that her hus-
band admitted he had been writing
Miss Mitchell for two months but i
was all done for his friend.
Thinks He Is Insane.
The mother of the young man who
has got himself into trouble by his ter
rble crime thinks that he is insane
He couldn't act this way" she said
III he were in his right mind. He