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

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Kenosha and on Sunday she told, in
unvarnished truth, the whole story OF
the unusual perfdy and deceit on the
part of Darnell
The fall of Darnell was brought
| about through his own cleyerness. He
was too clever. Darnell and Miss
Vaughn had been married by the Rev.
Myron E. Adams, D. D., pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Chicago at his
residence on Grand boulevard. The
! ceremony was performed at ten O'Clock
in the evening. Darnell and Miss
] Vaughn, who is one of the most promin-
ent workers among the younger women
| Of the South Congregational Church in
Chicago, had reached the house only a
! few minutes before the ceremony and
| they had announced that they had at
| tended church service earlier In the
! evening. They brought with them reg
ularly issued licensed and consent for
! the marriage from the mother of Miss
Vaughn. Darnell declared that this
was the first time that he had been
married. Immediately after the mar
riage Darnell took his wife to the home
of her mother. It was arranged that
first of January after her husband had
arranged home for her. 1t was de-
clared that Darnell had urged the mar
rage at the time on the claim that he
was to receive a large inheritance, but
that it was impossible for him to re-
ceive it unless he was married Miss
Vaughn had not been overly enthusiast
tic, but her mother suggested that it
would make no difference and then she
consented. Darnell returned to Keno
sha the same night and then things
began to start. A week after the mar
riage he informed the members of his
congregation that he was planning to
bring his wife and baby to Kenosha
and three days later Ruth Soper and
little Jimmy Darnell arrived and
were formally installed at the Darnell
apartments. Before they had arrived
Darnell had invited the child wife in
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spect the apartments, but she was so
interested in a church fair at the church
in Chicago that she sent her sister,
! Miss Madge Vaughn. While Darnell
and the woman he had brought from
the north were living here as man and
wife, Mrs. Darnell in Chicago was be-
ing entertained by clubs and church
organizations to which she had belong
ed, with linen, tin and other showers
in which she received hundreds of gifts
which were to grace the home in
Kenosha.
Darnell continued to keep Miss
Soper and the baby with him in Keno
sha. The woman was accepted every
where as Mrs. Daniel and the women
of Kenosha became greatly interested
in the life of little "Jimmy." Miss
Soper repeatedly appeared in public as
the wife of Darnell and she made a
good impression. Only / week ago
tomorrow night she with er husband
was a guest at a gathering of more
than four hundred prof nent men and
women of Kenosha, and Darnell was
the orator of the evening. Darnell
found that it was becoming ticklish
business. Mrs. Darnel in Chicago
urged visits to Chicago and early in
the game he informed her that he was
making his home in Kenosha with his
cousin Marian Darnello and his wife
ard baby. Letters filed with gushy
love making were sent daily from Ke-
nosha telling of his ideal life here and
inviting Mrs. Darnell to come up and
spend day. When she finally came
she found that her own life had been
broken. Even this lie began to get
dangerous and last week DarneH found
that it was necessary for him to dis
pose of Marian Darnell.o Also he
had not been able to send much money
to Mrs. Darnell in Chicago on account
of the cost of keeping up the house
in Kenosha. Then Darnell pulled his
master stroke. He credits the clever
ness to the woman who was living with
him. On last Wednesday morning he
sent to Mrs. Darnell in Chicago a let
ter signed cd. G. Martin = in which
it was declared that James Morrison
Darnell had gone to village near Ker
nosha to preach at funeral of a per-
son who had died of smallpox and that
the minister, members of the church
and the ever present Marian had been
quarantined in pest house. Martin
was represented as a member of Oar
nell's family. In heroic language he
told the story of the death of Marian
Darnell. The letter declared that
hire had broken out in the pest house
and that Marian Darnell in a heroic
effort to save the life of his cousin, the
minister, had fallen to death from the
second story of the building.
Il am coming now with the body of
your heroic cousin, continued the let
ter, but l will not have time to stop
with you in Chicago for even a few
hours. j. M. is anxious that / see you. =
Then followed the statement that the
Rev. Mr.. Darnell was slowly recover