The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-27

her cashier OF the Barnes Banking COM
pany and mayor of Kaysville has not
been seen here since last Saturday even
ing, when he drove to Ogden with
morse and busy, and from that point
TOOK q train out of the state.
barnes lett note for his wife and one
addressed to his father in both of which
ne hlnted at possible scandal, and said
ne could not live down the ieers and iihes
OF the public.
Accounts Are Intact.
The accounts of the Barnes Banking
company are perfectly straight in every
particular Not cent is missing and
the books are in the same excellent con-
dltion that they have been throughout the
long service of Mr.. Barnes as cashier.
other funds with which the former
CASHIER had TO do are also intact. and so
far as can be ascertained at present no
charge could be brought against the alb
sent man that would bring him back II
his whereabouts were known.
Private Accounts Covered.
There are said TO be a number of pri
Vate debts owing by Barnes to individ-
uals from whom he has borrowed money
and who hold his notes, but in every in
stance since the loans were negotiated
the interest has been regularly kept up.
and some of the notes are not due So
far as known his liabilities are about
%5,WU ana as an offset To this indebted
ness he has considerable property in
Kaysville. He owns the KaysvilIe hotel
ana the land on which 1t is built. and his
STOCK IN the Barnes Banking company.
the kaysville Canning company the Old
enDury Horse company and the B. B.
Mercantile company will in all proba bfIitv
be used TO help meet his obligations
For man possessed of the earning ca
pacity and keen business judgment OF
Mr.. Barnes, the amount for which he was
involved was not great, and financial Diff
ficulties, while they may have weighed
EDOn we rnf
be the only cause for the step he has
taken.
Double Life Revealed.
The key to the mysterious move is be-
lieved 20 be found in the inference made
in as notes 10 his father and his wife To
sonic scandal that he could not face.
This opens a chapter in his life that
reveals the old story of wOmans wiles
and mans weakness
Woman Enters Scene.
Something like four years ago. u. T.
EVANS, representative of Studebaker
BROS, came mere and opened branch
for his company. With him came his
wife and two bright. beautiful children
The woman was young. vivacious hand
some. fond of society, q smart dresser
was a general favorite in the social life
of the town, and her husband apparently
dotted on her, granting every wish ami
providing her laviShiy with money and
Texas girl, and, it is said, came Of a
good family.
The couple made their home at the
kaysvilNe hotel. and to this house came
also, short time later. young man
from Willard county. named Andrew
Stewart, who spent some time there I'M
DER treatment for some injury received
while mining. Stewart was musicallv in
clined. So was Mrs Evans An init
macy sprang up between them that re-
suited in the separation of Mr.. and Mrs.
Evans. and: ultimately. in divorce pro-
ceedinSs and legal separation.
Barnes Is Made Guardian.
1t is ar this point that r. w Barnes
first figures in the case. As a personal
friend of Evans. he was appointed guard
ian of the children of the divorced par
ties. and through him. from that time 10
the present, the $50 a month alimOny has
been PAID to Mrs Evans for the support
of herself ard the children
For time Mrs. Evans lived in Salt
Lake. Later there was talk of a recon-
Citation between the divorced couple be-
ing effected. and she came here and took
rooms in KaysvilIe.
In his capacity as guardian of the chill
dren. Barnes made calls at the Evans
home. and as time went on and no recon-
Citation between Mr.. and Mrs. Evans
took place. neighborhood gossip connect
ed the names of Barnes and Mrs. Evans.
Declares His Innocence.
task about the matter, but he stOutIy
maintained TO the last that his relations
with Mrs. Evans were not subject 10
crlticlsm-that he was innocent of wrong
doing and that his somewhat frequent
visits to the house of Mrs. Evans were
on business purely
Evans Meets Barnes.
Matters remained in this shape until
three weeks ago when Evans. now a
resident of Bountiful, came to Kaysville,
and after what IS said to have been
stormy scene with Barnes, and a fearful
one with his former wife took away the
two children and declared that the wo-
man was not a fit person to rear them
Mrs. Evans Disappears.
Shortly afterward on Oct. TO- Mrs. Ev-
ans left Kaysville, announcing her inten-
ton of returning to her relatives in Tex
as. Since going away, no word has been
frcm her and il is not known
whether she reached her relatives or not.
Before leaving she sold all of her house
hold goods and it was believed that she
did not intend TO return.
Gossip Is Renewed.
Her going away and the episode of the
children being fOrcibly taken from her.
served TO renew and increase the scandal
her name with that OF Barnes.
He is said to have been relieved that she
was out of the way. and during the in
tervening time before his departure he
llNed apparently HdPpAAN With Ills VIE
and daughter at their beautiful home
here. and attended 20 his business in the
usual careful manner.
Accounts Are Audited.
Only the day before he left Kaysville
the hooks of the bank were carefully gone
over and checked UP, Mr.. Barnes assist
ing Some bills that were due from con-
Germs of which he was treasurer were
paid Small personal accounts were set
tied and while his wife was away from
home on a visit he had planned with her
family in West Jordan. he packed his Of
fects left a note for his wife and daugh-
ter in which he spoke of the scandal that
he could not bear. and drove away from
the home where he had lived for twenty
years and from the town in which he
was born and reared and in which every