The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-13
HAMPTON'S Wife
SIGNS FURNITURE
TO STUBBLEFIELD
Banker Extracts Lien On
Goods to Cover Pastors
Note for S127.
WANTED TYPEWRITER
BUT WAS TURNEDDOWN
Minister'S Wife Expects to Hold
Sale and Settle With
Creditors.

acts concerning the treatment 10
which Mrs. B. Wade Hampton was
subjected at her home in the few days
following her husbands departure
from The Cape after his dismissal BY
the borad of his church, have been
given to The Tribune simultaneous
with the announcement that Mrs.
Hampton expects to hold a private
sale of all her household effects in an
effort to settle with all her husbands
creditors.
One of the first creditors to appear
at the Hampton home at 225 South
Middle street, it is said was w. H.
Stubblefeld, president of the Sturdi-
want Bank and leader in the financing
of the Forsythe tabernacle show.
Rev. Hampton sometime before had
succeeded in making a loan at the bank
for $127 to secure which he gave his
personal note. Mr.. Stubblefeld pre-
scented the note which her husband had
signed to Mrs. Hampton and demand
ed payment.
Mrs. Hampton endeavored to explain
to the banker that the dismissal of her
husband had virtually made it impOs
sible for her to make any financial
plans. At that time, under i doctors
advices, she was taking medicine to
restore her nervous system.
She asked for time in which to make
plans, declaring that she had not been
in communication with any of her
friends or members of the church
board and she did not know what 10
do. She declared that she did not have
funds with which to meet the note.
The banker declined to wait for
settlement of the note, whereupon Mrs.
Hampton declared she would call
someone up, remarking that Mr.. Stub
blefeld certainly could not prevent her
from doing that. She got into COM
municatiOn with a member of the
church board, who declared he could
giver her no advice beyond the sug-
gestion that she sell all her household
belongings in an effort to settle with
creditors.
The church, he told her, owed her
husband $11O on his salary which would
be used by the board in settling claims
made by other creditors against her
husband.
Before Mrs. Stubblefield departed,
Mrs. Hampton told her friends, he in
sitsed that she sign over to him three
OF the best pieces of furniture that the
family possessed, and whose value is
said to be far in excess the face value
of the banks note.
An effort was made to have her in
clude her typewriter, but she demur-
red, saying that she still could take
her machine and earn living by its
use.
As soon as she can dispose of her
property Mrs. Hampton will move
next door to the home of Mrs. Bris-
sender, who lives at 227 South Middle |
street.
Arrangements also have been made |
for Mr. Hampton'S aged father to go |
to live with one of his daughters who |
is married and lives in Nebraska. The
news of his sons dismissal from the
church pulpit has been kept form the
father.
He was told that Mr.. Hampton went
to Chicago to enter a sanitarium and
then members of the family wrote to
the daughter in Nebraska to have her
ask the old man to come stay with
her.
Whe MIR. Hampton departed from
the Cape, his whereabouts became the
subject of considerable conjecture, but
it is believed that his destination will
be in the East.
Members of her church were in
censed at the manner in which Mrs.
Hampton was treated by her husbands
banker, and some of the women have I
oeen doing what they can to be of as
,istance to her.