Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-01-14
MAYNARD ONE RETURNS
Mrs. (?) Dan Starr Comes Back to Scene
of Her Downfall.

Inc Dubuque Ddlly llutS III lUS
Tuesday issue printed story which
is of more than usual interest to Lam
caster readers, the foremost character
being Mrs. Dan Starr, we'll known to
Herald readers by reputation. We
herewith reprint the article.
Vowing that she possesses burning
love for the man who deserted her af-
ter she had sacrificed husband, home
and honor for him. Mrs. Dan Starr, late
Of Lancaster, Wis, called at the police
headquarters on Sunday and asked the
aid of the department in locating her
unfaithful spouse. The police were un-
able to do anything for her and fur
thermore told her that she is not de-
serving of sympathy as from her own
story she is to blame for her present
plight.
The story told by the woman to Chief
Reilly was confession of her weak
ness, and she withheld none OF the de-
tails leading up to her meeting with
the man who has left her Pennies.
But she still loves him, she declared,
and although according to her own
story she has never spent happy day
with him she would 60 with him again.
The woman's story reveals remark
able attachment she has for the man
she seeks. A couple of years ago the
woman lived with her husband and
five children at Lancaster, Wis. She
was the wife of another man who has
since been divorced from her. Dan
Starr was at that time married and
lived with his wife and two children
nearby. One day Mrs. Starr was taken
ill and the woman went to her house
to attend her. While there she met
Starr fell passionately IN love with
him and husband, home and children
we're forgotten. A few nights after her
meeting with Starr the woman packed
together few articles OF wearing APP
parel. Meeting Starr at place deslg-
mated they, left togetheH thinking
nothing of the sick wife or the little
children at home. The couple went to
Dakota, where they went to live on
farm. The husband of the woman VINO
had deserted him learned of the where
abouts of his recreant errlng wlfe
and Starr and officers were sent after
them. They were arrested and brought
back to Lancaster and each sentenced
to year in the penitentiary at Wau-
pun on charge of adultery.
During the time the couple we're IN
prison the husband secured divorce
from his wife and Mrs. Starr secured
a divorce from her faithless husband.
The guilty couple we're released from
prison last summer and they lost no
time in getting married. They went TO
Dakota again and secured situations
on a farm. About a week ago the
husband went to Sioux City,telling his
wife that she could join him later. No
word came from him and she went
there and learned that he had come to
Dubuque. She followed him, but no
trace of him has been found.
The woman is penniless and alone,
after making terrible sacrifice for
Starr. Despite this she VOWS that she
still loves him and will go back to him
If she locates him.
Il love Dan and always will, de-
clared the woman at the police station.
II have never had happy day since
I met him, but i love him just the
same. | would go anywhere or do any
thing for him. Il will find him J ct and
will 90 wherever he goes"
When her husband secured divorce
from her he was awarded the custody
of the five children, one of whom is a
young lady now. Sunday, while the
mother was in the city, she communi-
Gated with her eldest son at Lancaster
and asked if she could come home and
see her children. She was told that she
could never go back to the home she
disgraced, but that meeting with the
children would be arranged. She
begged piteously for this and the son
could not refuse to see her. She left
here for Lancaster, broken in health
and spirits, penniless and. disgraced in
the eyes of all, but still contiding in
the man who was the cause of all her
misery"
The above article states that the
woman called her son over the tele-
phone, but such is not the case. AS
a matter of fact she very brazenly
called for Mr.. Nichols himself. asking
if he was married, if he was we'll and
happy, and in other honeyed phrases
trying to induce him to drive to Du-
buque after her. Mr.. Nichols very
properly denied all her requests, re-
fusing even to see her. He told her
that he could not prevent her coming
to Lancaster nor seeing the children
whom she had disgraced, but that he
would not allow her to see them at
their home.
On Mondays tram Mrs. Starr was a
passenger to Lancaster. She put up
at the Grand Central hotel, where she
has been staying since that time. On
Tuesday she Went to the Nichols