The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-09-25
LEFT HIS FANlILY Y
a DOCTOR AND YOUNG LADY
MISSING.
He Left for Utah, According to His
Story, B,4t Since Then Nothing
Has Been Heard of Him.

Has Been Heard of Him.
Several weeks ago it wss stated
by the Aiken correspondent CT TIC
News and Courier that DR.. H. j.
Weeks. prominent young physician
of Wagener. had decided to go to
the West. He did leave, and now
news from Wagner indicates that
he not only left himself, but de-
serted his wife and five children. and
has since married another woman,
a former clerk in a Wagner store.
For some timeit has been reported
that he had deserted his family, but
the report was generally discreditetl
and his friends believed that he
would soon return to them. But
time has passed and he has not yet
returned, and further investigation
has discovered the fact the he was
quite familiar with Miss Sarah
Smith, while she was in charge OF
the millinery department of Mr..
]. w. Lybrand's big store in Wag-
enner last. winter.
A few weeks previous to July 80
DIR. Weeks announced that he had
decided to move his family to Utah,
where he has a brother-in-law, Dr.
]. r. A. Whitlock, formerly Of this
county. He has been in correspoN-
dence with Dr.. Whitlock in reference
to that action and had completed
all the details. apparently. to carry
out his announcement. Subsequent
ly he said he would go out there
and make his arrangements and re-
turn for his family in ten days.
A short time after he was to have
returned home the flood came and
it was thought that he was possibly
BLOODHOUND. or perhaps drowned.
Soon after the floods an investi-
CATION was started, and party
interested in the. matter went to
Spartanburg and called on the
mother of Miss Smith and asked
where the latter was. Mrs. Smith
replied that she had married w.
A. Hambleton, of Charleston. Upon
being described to her it appeared
that "Mr. Hambleton' was none
other than DR.. Weeks. The visitor
then showed her picture OF DR..
Weeks and she agreed that 1t must
be the person to whom her daughter
was married a short time previous.
The marriage. she said, took place
in the Baptist church. Mrs. Smith
said she had last heard from the
couple in Kansas City.
A great deal of indignation has
been aroused over the seeming plaM
desertion and steps have been takeE
to bring Weeks to justice. 1t Is
understood that attorneys have been
employed and the case will be pushed
against him. 1t has been stated
that a detective has been employed
and is now at work trying to capture
him. Some reports have it that he
is in the West, while others stafe
that he has gone TO Cuba.
DR.. Weeks is a brother-in-law OF
Drs. J. R. A. and w. A. Whltlock,
and is himself prominently con-
nected. He has always been resi-
dent of Aiken county and at the
time of his disappearance his aged
mother was living with him. He
was a poor young man when he be-
gan the study Of medicine. BY ap-
plying hir :, elf he soon built up p
fairly good practice and be was gen
orally we'll thought of in his section.
A few years after his marriage
to Miss Emma Whitlock some OF
his friends advanced him money and
he went to medical college. he
had an Office in Wagner and visited
his parents in an automobile. he
was a member of the Aiken County
Medical Association and was proml-
nent among his brother physicians
His deserted family is composed OF
his wife and FIVE children, who are
now being cared for by relatives.
The affair Is greatly deplored and
every effort will be made to see that
Justice Is done.