Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-10-20
Rev. Edwin Wilcox De
sclibes Different Female
as Pahmeyer's Wife.
MANY WITNESSES ON
STAND DURING TRIAL
Defendant Claims She Was
Never Welded to Man
Suing for Divorce.

G ENSATION followed sensation yes
~ terday while the divorce suit OF
William Theodore Pahmeyer against
Mrs. Eva Fisher Bowman was being
heard before Judge Breckinridge of
the superior court. The climax came
during the testimony of Rev. Edwin
Wilcox who otficated at the wedding
of Pahmeyer and a woman who
claimed she was Mrs. Eva Marie
Fisher Bowman. Looking al the de-
frndant the minister said.
This is not the woman | married
10 Pahmeyer"
II was the supreme moment for the
defense. All evidence previously in
troduced by Mrs. BowmanS attorneys
to prove her contention that she was
never married to Pahmeycr led up 10
this point.
Pah'neyer and Mrs. Bowman sat
with their attorneys on opposite sides
OF the table in the courtroom. They
carefully avoided looking In the direc-
ton of each other.
Mrs. Bowman Attractive.
Nii i'oN man was NHt tcIltI VI tili
eyes in the crowded courtroom. She
wore a dark gray suit and stylish
hat with veil. She is of the brunette
type and has a mass of black, curly
hair.
Fhe trial began shortly after IL
O'Clock yesterday morning. Boli.
plaintiff and defendant occupied the
witness stand for almost an nour
each. Adjournment was taken at 8
O'clock yesterday afternoon. one or
two more witnesses are to be called
this morning. Arguments OF attorneys
will follow and the case will prob
ably be submitted to Judge Breckin-
ridge for decision some time this
afternoon.
More than 2 half hour yesterday al
ternoon was given to the testimony of
reverend Wilcox, an Episcopal rector.
formerly stationed at Fort Smith,
Ark, about which the Pahmeyer di-
yorce suit revolVes on July 2S, 1915.
Since that time he has been trans
terred Webb Ciy. Mo
He is athletic in appearance and
represents the more modern type Of
minister. His rare fund Of wit kept
the entire courtroom entertained all
TIE time he was on the stand.
Asked If he recognized Pahmeyei
ss' ti' WIZ was Ill HIS
church July % of last year he re-
piled in he affirmative Questioned
as to how he remembered that Mrs
Bowman who was sitting IT, the court
;oom was not the woman who was
married at that time the rector an
s'vered:
she had an entirely different type
of figure"
What do YOU mean by that" an
attorney asked.
We'll, | should say the figure of the
woman l married to Pahmeyer would
have required great deal of corset
ing to make 1t attractive" replied
Reverend Wilcox, and was followed
by roar of laughter. Other clever
sallies of the rector kept the specta-
tors and court attaches on keen edge
and caused discomfort to the cross
examiner.
Anyone could see that Mrs. Bow
man had not the characteristics so
humorously described ny the MINIS
ter. She Is slender and has black
eyes. Reverend Wilcox said the
woman who came to Fort Smith with
Pahmeyer had a round face, brown
eyes and very prominent gold teeth.
The rector got the impression, he as
serted. that the woman was not Pah-
Want Case to Continue.
When the case was little more than
half through Judge Breckenridge an
nounced that he was ready to throw
1t out of court, but to this Mrs. Bow
mans attorneys objected. They as
serted that the object of their cross
bill was to prove that Pahmeyer and
Mrs. Bowman never were married.
After a brief argument they were al
lowed to amend their pleadings and
continue the introduction of testi-
mony.
Pahmeyer has withdrawn all claims
for property rights. He now asks only
an absolute divorce.
While on the stand Pahmeyer re-
peated the statements made in his
petition. He asserted that he and
Mrs. Bowman went to Fort Smith and
were married in that city on July 2S,
1915. They returned to Tulsa the
same day, he said, and went to Mrs,
Bowman's residence at 704 South
Houston. They lived together until
February 2, 1916. he said.
Pahmeyer asserted that he had in
troduced Mrs. Bowman as his wife to
relatives and that she did not OBJ
iect He even exhibited the marriage
license issued at Fort Smith and, she
did tacitly acknowledge it, he claimed.
Mrs. Bowman met Pahmeyer in
May of last year az a social given by
q local lodge. On or about July 80
of the same year he moved to the resi-
dence on Houston street.
1t was his custom to turn over his
salary checks to Mrs. Bowman, Pah-
meyer averred. With this she paid
the running expenses of the house, he
declared.
Pahmeyer admitted that he had
been previously married and that his
divorced wife was now living in Cof-
feyville, Kan. He also took out a
marriage license in 1913 at Wagner,
Okla, to marry a Pearl Hopping of
that place. But the ceremony was
never performed as Miss Hopping
broke the engagement after he had