The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-12
WOMAN SAYS OIL KING
M'CO0L IS HER HUSBAND
Mrs. Frank Walker" Causes
Sensation In Pittsburg
Social Circles.
CLAIMS HUSBAND HAD WIFE
His Friends Hint ut Blackmail While
Her Attorney Is Said to Have
Marriage Certificate.

Pittsburg, Pa, October 12.-Pitts-
burg was treated to another social
sensation today, when it became
known that woman who holds title
to splendid home in the fashionable
Squirrel Hill district under the name
of Mrs. Frank Walker had sued, in
Alderman Toole's court, Peter F. Nc
Cool, the millionaire oil man of Pitts
burg and Butler, Pa, for desertion and
non-support.
The woman, who is IS years old and
exceedingly handsome. made oath that
she had married McCool in June, 1904,
at the Protestant Episcopal church of
the Ascension In New York city.
Known as "Mrs. sWalker" in the
Squirrel Hill neighborhood, she had
maintained luxuriously furnished
home and moved in good circles. Her
marriage certificate, she says. she has
placed in the hands of Attorney John
Marion. who will represent her in
what promises to be one of the most
sensational cases in the local courts
annals.
McCool. who is very wealthy, has Il
residence in Butler, where he has ex-
tensive oil interests. He has wife
and family in that town, and the Butler
woman says she was married to Nc
Cool 10 years ago. The Walker wo-
man says she lived with McCool up to
six months ago.
McCool had told her, she says, short
ly after their marriage two years ago
that there was woman living in
Butler who claimed to be his wife. She
then consented to allow herself to
be known by the name of Mrs. Frank
Walker to prevent the exposure which,
McCool said. would follow public an
nouncement of their marriage.
Mrs. Walker. or McCool. says she
first met McCool in Detroit. where
she lived. Her first husband wac Il
marine engineer. He has been dead
a number of years. Her given name
is Elizabeth, McCool, according to her
story, began to make love to her as
siduously after the first meeting, and
on June 10, two years ago, they were
married in New York. Returning west,
a handsome home was fitted up in
Murdoch avenue, and here the woman
has lived and mingled in society af-
fairs under the name OF Walker. The
furniture of the home is of the cost
Hest description.
Six months ago, according to the
woman's story. McCool left her and
has refused to return. Hearing that
he was in Butler, living with the wo-
man who for 10 years has been known
as his wife, the Squirrel Hill woman
instituted legal proceedings.
Il love him." she said. land do not
want to cause him trouble. But
want him to come back and leave the
Butler woman. l could have brought
other charges against him."
Mrs. Walker says her first husband
was drowned in a storm in Lake Erie.
She was left in comfortable circum.
stances. OF her past life she refused
to say much.
The Butler Mrs. McCool refuses to
believe her husband guilty OF bigamy.
She says they were married in Phil
adelphia 10 years ago. They have one
son, boy Z years old. McCool HIM
self absolutely refuses to talk about
che case today. His friends hint at
blackmail. Mrs. Walkers attorney,
however, says the marriage certificate
is genuine.
Mrs Walkers story has astonished
the acquaintance of McCool in this
city and Butler. The intimation is
broadly made that if he has been lead
ing dual life he has been able to
deceive his closet friends. Neither
woman is willing to believe him faith
less.
McCool. several years ago, made sew
eral exceedingly successful oil vent
ures, and Is gated as one of the rich
est producers in the Pennsylvania
field.
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o THIS Is NV 69ND BIRTHDAY. .
q George w. Cable. 9
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George Washington Cable. the dis
tinguished southern novelist, was born
in New Orleans. Oct. ~. 1874. At ii
years of age, on the death of his father,
he was obliged to leave school and go
to work. At the age of is he enlisted
in the confederate cavalry. though he
was far from being in robust health.
When the war was ended young Cable
found himself penniless, and with only
boys experience in earning.