The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-01-14
(From Tuesdays Daily1

Church-we have grown to be SO fami-
liar with him that we feel the right to
call him Jimmy-is peeved. With the
monumental nerve that permitted him
to preach to Kenosha congregation
| when he must have known that he was
| facing the exposure of his dual life,
Darnell dropped out of Kenosha and
went directly to the home of his child
wife, Doris Darnell, in Chicago, and
| from this bastile he fired broadside
at the newspapers and at every one
who had been connected with his ex-
pose. The meekness with which he
had slipped out of Kenosha on the first
train on Monday appeared to have dis
appeared and he was going to do lot
of things to every one who had any
thing to do with the laying bare of the
story Of his life to the people of Ke-
nosha and Chicago.
"Jimmy" now says that he is 60
| ing to take the trusting little Doris
and go to a farm and live happy ever
afterward. This may be possible for
it is very improbable that the people
in Kenosha will take any further in
terest in his movements. The members
Of the board of trustees believe that
| they have no reasons for further deal
| ings with Darnell. IF the two young
women, who have been mixed in the
affairs of his life, desire to go into the
courts with the case either or both of
them will undoubtedly have every as
sistance that can be rendered by the
Kenosha people. The Rev. "Jimmy"
was very busy talking at the home of
his wife in Chicago on Monday night,
but when an effort was m3de to find
him there this morning it was stated
that he had gone out" Later it was
declared by Chicago newspaper men,
that he could not be located. Darnell
in the statements that he has given
out, and he seems to have given one
to pretty nearly every one who came
into the line of contact with him, as
serts that his actions should be classed
as "unbecoming to minister rather
than as criminal or in any way VIC
lation of moral ethics. Tie has assert
ed in Chicago that Ruth Soper lived in
Kenosha and that he took friendly
interest in her and that he even pushed
about the perambulator containing the
baby, but that he represented that she
was his wife-banish the thought
Ruth wa sonly just dear friend whom
he was shielding from her relatives.
However, the Minnesota young WON
| an is not to be entirely forgotten and
she is entitled to some consideration
From way up in Owatonna last night
she telephoned the Chicago Tribune.
To the city editor of this paper she de-
| clared that she was the only real wife
of Darnell. She alleged that she had
| been married to Darnell in Hammond,
Indiana, in October of 1913, and in
sisted that when she left Kenosha she
went to her home in Minnesota for a
visit with her relatives. Mrs. Ruth
| Soper Darnell, as she insists that she
is entitled to be known, also declares
that she can prove every statement
| she has made and that she is ready to
come to Kenosha or Chicago and face
| the second Mrs. Darnell. Doris Oar
nell in Chicago on Monday night, re-
CARELESS of the fact that on Sunday
she had laid before representative of
the Evening News all the letters and
kilograms from the minister and had
told the full story of her relations
with her, shut up like clam. She
was with Darnell and she refused to
make any statement which could be
used against him. 1t was the same
child-like simplicity which she had
shown in accepting his stories of the
famous pest house fire.
The revelations of the real facts in
regard to the life of Darnell came like
a thunder bolt in Kenosha. Darnell
also wanted to hear the thunder and
early Monday afternoon he showed his
nerve again when he telephoned to Ke-
nosha and asked that copies of the Ke-
nosha papers be sent to him. Many
Kenosha women have taken the side of
| INC young "oHdu Wno feSlueu III memo
sha. They insist that it is possible
that she is being imposed on just the
same as the members of the church
were. The young woman from Mime
sofa always acted as perfect lady
while in Kenosha and some of the
members of the church seem to think
| it possible that she had been grossly
wronged in the stories that have been
given out.
The attitude Of Darnell in the case
IS puzzling one as any way he cares
to look at it he is liable for trial on
serious charges. Chief of Police
| O. Hare had been advised of the con
ditions under which Darnell had lived
| in Kenosha and he protested loudly