Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-10
MRS. TINKER, OF eLApHRook
RAsELY DECEIVED INTO MAR.
RAGE WITH WILSON.
MET in MARsHALLToWN
ONLY FEW MONTHS AGO
Wilson Deceived Bride, Pastor and
Several others-said First Wife Had
Boon Ruried-Mrs. Tinker Member
Of Prominent Maquoketa Family
Is Not Wealthy.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
| Waterloo, Sept. 10.-While consid-
cradle has been written on the subject
Of the marriage of Levi NJ. Wilson Of
Des Moines and H. Helen Tinker of
Gladbrook and on the various phases
Of the unexpected developments-that
lief Wilson'S already having a wife in
Des Moines, his arrest by wife No. on
charge of desertion, her enacting the
role of sleuth and discovering his du-
plicity, and his arrest later on a charge
of bigamy-the true story of the
couples meeting and the marriage has
not been told.
1t has been learned from one who
has known Mrs. Tinker ever since she
was a girl at Maquoketa, her girlhood
home, that neither Mrs. Tinker. Will
sons latest bride, nor the witness to
the marriage license, knew anything
other than that Wilson was what he
represented himself to be, fully compe-
tent to enter legally into the marriage
relation. He is grieved over the fact
that she and Mrs. Tinker and Rev. Mr..
Parks of Gladbrook, who performed the
marriage ceremony for Wilson and
Mrs. Tinker, should have been deceived
by the groom. Mr. Parks is young
minister who has the esteem and love
of the people of Gladbrook His wife
accompanied him here and witnessed
the ceremony. They are friends of the
bride, and came here at her instance.
Couple Met Last Spring.
The real facts regarding Mrs. Tink-
erss acquaintance with Wilson are told
by one who processes to know as FOL-
lows Last spring Mrs. Tinker who
was milliner in Gladbrook, went to
Marshalltown one day to buy some
goods. She is beautiful and attract
i've woman despite her 4S years. Will
son, who was working in Marshalltown
at the time, was attracted by Mrs.
Tinker's appearance and is said to
have remarked: There's woman 1
am going to marry If she is free" Soon
afterwards they weer introduced, the
friendship gradually ripened into love
and their love was crowned at the
marriage altar in this city two weeks
ago, with tragic consequences to the
groom.
Wilson from the first passed himself
enter into the marriage relation should
he so desire. He told Mrs. Tinker that
he had been married, but that che had
statement and having no way of con-
troverting its truth, Mrs. Tinker &C
cepted his proffer of marriage, and ar
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Waterloo where the bride had friends
whom she had known from infancy.
The couple arrived in the morning of
the day they were to be welded, but
Wilson either feigned illness or was
really ill after his arrival, obliging him
to recline upon a couch and take med
icine that the people where he stopped
insisted he should get from a physi-
clan. And so Wilson was not able to
go to the clerks office for the license.
Mrs. Tinker was thus obliged to get
the necessary certificate, and her friend
accompanied her as "a witness, never
for a moment suspecting that Wilson
was a married man or was anything
different from what he had represent
ed himself to be. He told Mrs. Tinker
and her friend that he was something
like As years old, and the women say
he looks it. However, it is said he is
only about 35. After the license was
procured the minister from Gladbrook
married the couple, and Wilson seemed
to gradually recover from his sickness,
Mrs. Tinker Not Wealthy.
The story that Mrs. Tinker is a
woman of great wealth is denied by
her friends and acquaintance here in
Waterloo. They say she had some
property in Maduoketa, but do not be-
lieve she has it now. She has been in
ordinary circumstances, and working
at her trade as a. milliner at Gladbrook
to make her way in life.
It is quite interesting to learn that
Mrs. Thinkers father, John p. Goode-