The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-06-20
KIeinfGIdGF
Pours Another Tale
ofWoe Into Report
er's Willing Ear

Kansas City Journal The story Of
Adam Kleinfelder's matrimonial en-
tanglement whereby he has two wives
reads like a romantic drama from the
very beginning, and now a chanter
Of melodrama is soon to be written
into it.
Wife No. is coming coming to
Kansas City from New York. coming
to see Kleinfelder. This meeting viii
be dramatic.
There will most likely be another
meeting. and II will be tinged aith
melodrama--a meeting Of the two
wives.
The Journal has already told in de-
tail the story OF how Adam KIelnfeld-
er wandered from New York to Okla.
homa. leaving his wife behind. how
through Fred NJ. Eikins, a lawyer. he
applied for divorce and was made to
believe a decree had been granted;
how he came to Kansas City adopted
the assumed name of John J. Thesis,
grew rich as1 married again; how he
was frequently, so he alleges, "held
up for money by Lawyer Elkips and
how at last Elkins was lodged in jail
on the charge Of extortion.
And yet new chapters are to be writ.
ten for the process OF unrayeling this
remarkable domestic entanglement
has only fairly started
Mrs. Kleinfelder wired her husband
direct. announcing her coming.
Her Purpose in Coming.
What purpose Mrs. Kleinfelder has
in coming to Kansas City at this time
snot fully known. It is supposed by
all parties interested that she still
loves Kleinfelder and perhaps hopes
to win him back to her. But still an.
other reason is assigned for her com
ing. It is said by some of those op-
posed to Mrs. Kleinfelder that when
the father Of Adam Kleinfelder died
he left a considerable share of money
and property to his son. This happen
ed after Kleinfelder had disappeared
and become lost to his New York wife.
Before she could get possession Of
the property and money. alleged to
have been left. she had either to fur
nish the courts with the consent of
her husband or prove beyond doubt
that he was dead. The consent. Of
course she could not furnish, but she
attempted to prove her husband dead.
A brother and sister of Klelnfelder
made AFFIDAVIT that they believed him
dead. At the time Of the exposure Of
the double life OF Klenfelder by The
Journal a few weeks ago, there lacked
but three days of the period. proyid-
ed by the laws of New York before
man is legally declared dead. But
for the exposure Kleinfelder would
have been declared dead and the pro-
perty left him by his father would
have been turned over to Mrs Klein
fielder No. /.
But for the fact that Kleinfelder.
angered 10y the alleged repeated de-
mands of Elkins for money, almost
wholly accidentally complained on
that score to legal friend thinei
might have gone for the remainder OF
the lives of all concerned in the case
as they were. Mrs. Kleinfelder in the
East believed her husband dead, he
in Kansas City. married again and
making money rapidly. All thought
of Adam Kleinfelder would, in the
course of time, have died from the
memory of those who had known him
in New York. while in Kansas City
John j. Thelss. honored and respect
ed citizen. would have prospered and
gone on to his grave.
Tells His Romantic Story.
The legal friend recommended
Thesis. as Klelnfelder was then known
to seek the services of Attorney John
+. Gleason It was after Gleason had
talked to the supposed Thesis for sew
eral hours that he learned the whole
story that Thesis was not his clients
name, but that he was Adam Klein
fielder. who. under the name Of Thesis,
had a wife in Kansas City, while the
woman he had married under his right
name still lived in New York