The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-02
DID STARR
HAVE PLURAL|-
TY Of WIVES?
BELIEVED THAT SAPUlPA WON.
AN WHO OBTAINED DIVORCE
WAS WIFE OF SOME OTHER
STARR.

Oklahoma City, April 1.-The re
port that divorce was granted to
a wife Of Henry Starr at Sapulpa
Saturday has been received with
doubt by some. 1t is considered pos
sible that some woman by that name |
secured a divorce, but not from the
Henry Starr captured at Stroud fol-
lowing the robbing of bank there
by himself and comrades. Whether
or not Henry Starr had more than
one legal wife is questioned by some.
Judge Nance of Stilwell, Okla,
called at the office OF Governor Will
liams today, and in speaking OF the
STAIRS, said that Mrs. Starr, the first
wife of Henry, and who was his wife
when he was taken to the peniten-
tiary in Colorado, is now living I'M
Stilwell. She holds the position of
stenographer in the county court
there and supports her son, about
nine years old, and Henry Starr's
mother, who lives with them. 1t had
been reported that Henry Starr's
mother and his wife had reached
Chandler Sunday morning. Judge
Nance says that so far as he knows,
Henry Starr's mother was in Still
we'll Saturday evening, and that it
would have been impossible for her
to make the trip from Stilwell to
Stroud by Sunday morning.
The Mrs. Starr now at Stilwell
secured a divorce from Starr when
he was in the Colorado prison, it is
understood. Previous to that time
she was school teacher and ve'y
estimable woman. She was gil en-
the custody of the child when The
father went to Colorado. She has
had him since. People who say they
know Starr have no knowledge that
| he was married after his first wife
secured divorce. However, he may
have done so.
Tells Of Robbery.
Judge Nance says he remembers
well the time Starr robbed the Ben
tonville, Ark. bank number of years
ago. At that time Judge Nance was
county Judge of that county. He lived
on the road which the robbers took
in leaving town after they had looted
the bank. Two small children OF
Judge and Mrs. Nance were playing
out in the road when the shooting
between citizens and the robbers
began and Mrs Nance went out to
get the little ones. While on the
sidewalk one of the robbers passed
on his hoIse ani wuen IL 9 :st oppo-
site Mrs. Nance he dropped the sack
in which he had put the money-$11-,
0O0-taken from the bank. He stopped
his horse, ran back and picked up
the sack and escaped, during which
time a rain of bullets was sent after
him. Several years after a man WIS.,
tied family living next door to
the Nances. Mrs. Nance saw him
and told her husband it was the
same man she had seen pick up the
sack of money. 1t was Henry Starr
II is said that once having SEN the
man no one can mistake him a sec
ond time. His shoulders are broad
almost out of proportion to the rest
of his body
Senator Edmondson of Lincoln
county also has story about Starr
that is of more recent date. That is
if it was Starr who robbed the Car
ney State bank only a few weeks ago
Starr in his letter to Governor WEI
liams said that he did not par.lci
pate in the Carney affair. : mer
chant by the name of Stump went
in the bank just before The robbers
entered to make 4 deposit. He car
ried the money in sack, some sew
enty dollars. He had just placed the
sack in the window but had not
received certificate Of deposit when
the robbers covered the bank OF
ficials together with STUMP, and took
his sack of money.
They Play Square"
/ Stump with the bank officials were
marched down the road from town
about mile and turned loose, after
which the robbers escaped. While
walking along the road looking into
the barrel of one of the robbers
guns, Stump remarked that he
thought he had been treated unfair
". that the sack of money they took
from him was his own and that il
did not belong tN the bank, that he
had not received a certificate o.
: deposit before the robbers entered
the bank.
"Pll show you that my heart IL
right said the man covering Stump
L.