The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-15
LEGAL MIX.UP IS
RESULT OF ERROR
North Dakota Man Elopes and
Woman Dies in Possession of
His Wealth.

5s Grand fOrkS, IN. u, OcC. 14.-Ine ue-
tails of an elopement from Grand Forks
item years ago are being laid bare in
9court of Justice at Los Angeles, and
fthe court proceedings are of an inter
testing character. A..
: Twenty-Five years ago. H. c. Deming
land his wife came to Grand Forks from
sthe state of Maine. Mr.. Deming en-
fgaged in the sash and door business and
for some time conducted a factory here.
speared, leaving his wife and taking
with him the wife of Elwin Bolton.
Mrs Deming and Bolton still, live in
Grand Forks. After stopping at va
rious places. Deming and Mrs. Bolton
located at Los Angeles, where Mrs. Boil
sthe couple was F. G. Gamble, a son of
Mrs. Bolton by former marriage.
/ Mrs. Bolton or Mrs. Deming, as she
was known at Los Angeles, died July
ss2S, 1908, and it was found then that
FDeming had been quite successful in
Ssome wealth in Los Angeles in the
sshape of residence property, all Of
(which had been transferred to his wife,
cor, rather, to Mrs. Bolton.
& At the death Of Mrs. Bolton, the son,
IF. G. Gamble, was appointed admins
Etrator of his mother s estate, and Dem
Slng then brought suit against him as
y
the property he had transferred to her.
lit was about this time last fall the an
Inouncement was made that he was
about to marry Miss Stetson, prom
1nent young woman Of Los Angeles, and
Gamble and his wife then told all they
knew Of Deming and his abandonment
OF a wife in Grand Forks, parading the
family skeleton before the populace in
"a manner that attracted considerable at
tention, and led to an interview with
Mrs. Deming, who still lives in Grand
Forks. After being deserted ten years
ago, Mrs: Deming took up nursing as
means of livelihood, and has been very
successful, being well and favorably
known thruout the city When told that
her husband was about to contract
second matrimonial alliance in Cali
'fornia. she said:
81 have no interest in anything
that Mr.. Deming may do. He can get
married if he wants to, for will not
bother him. Since his elopement eleven
years ago l have made no effort to
trace him, altho I have heard of him
occasionally. We were married in
South Berwick, Maine, and came to
Grand Forks twenty-five years ago. BY
q former wife he has a daughter about
27 years of age, who is living in
Canadian city. I understand that he
has in no way contributed to her sup
port, [ am not divorced from Mr..
Deming, and you can just say that I
am not in the least bit interested in
him or his marriage.'
The publicity given the affair re-
suited in the marriage being postponed,
but it was solemnized last winter.
Who Will Get the Property
The suit brought by Deming against
Gamble to recover the property trans
ferred to the woman with whom he
@eloped from Grand Forks, has not been
finally disposed of, but there are new
complications that may result in the
property going to others. Elwin Boil
ton, who lives here, has retained firm
of California attorneys and has asked
for authority to administer the estate
of his wife, who was known in Los
Angeles as Mrs. Deming. Accompany
$ing the petition Of Bolton to adminis-
ter the estate are depositions that set
forth the details of the elopement from
Grand Forks, and joining in the petit
stion OF Bolton are the children of him
self and the California Mrs. Deming.
On the face of the case, Deming had
no claim on the property left by the
woman who passed under his name, but
action was brought to recover the prop
erty from the administrator, the
woman 8 son., on the grounds that it
was gwen to her Tor special purpose,
that she held it in trust for him and
had agreed that at any time she would
re-convev it to him. The legal hus-
band and his sons and those Of the de-
ceased woman, appear to be the ones
who will benefit should it be held that
the property was Mrs. Deming's sep
arate property, and in such event all
of Deming's hard work will have been
expended to benefit the man robbed of
his wife. and her children by that for,
mer husband Retribution is an uncer-
5 ing those who say that he is getting
his retribution at an early date.
The progress Of the case thru the
California courts will be watched with
4 much interest by many Grand Forks
people, who are intimately acquainted
with the people and the features of the
strange case.