The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-12-28

"She's wealthy widow" said
Kings brother-in-law.
King at once became an ar
dent sutton. He was so smiling,
smooth and affable that butter
would not have melted in his
mouth. He even gave the lonely
widow a fat check with which
she bought a new dress to help
remember the kindly capitalist
from dear old Duluth.
Frank Fish, a manufacturer
and brother-in-law Of Mrs. Young,
did not take to King and advised
his kinswoman not to marry him,
but she was so lonely and he was
so nice that she accepted the
Kingly hand and they were wed.
The very day before the we'd
ding, King is reputed to have
overheard a conversation which
showed him that the money of
his prospective bride was invest
ed and tied up in a manner which
would prevent him from getting
possession of it. That is assumed
to have started cooling Of his
passion.
Mrs. Young's son longed for
a real father and he asked King
if he could not call him "father"
"Ill think about it, young
man." he is alleged to have re-
piled. Later, in Duluth, he is
charged with declaring that he
would break every bone in the
boys body if he ever set foot in
this city. Military duties are as
sumed to have kept the son from
coming here to look after his
mothers welfare.
Before going east for his last
plunge into the pond Of matri-
mony, King talked much and
loudly about his approaching
nuptials. He engaged rooms at
the Spalding hotel for his
honeymoon. Just before he left,
he stood at the desk and bawled
out in stentorian, tones:
"Get that room ready. I'm
going after her."
On the way back to Duluth
and the Spalding's bridal cham
Der, COL. King Informed his new
wife of a iaison he had maintain
ed with one Madame Garceau.
''It's all off," he said. ct am
through with her and she knows
that I went away to marry YOU"
But the ardent, young-old man
is charged with quickly going
back to his Gallo mistress. She,
in turn, was the wife of Fred
Garceau, a French barber. He
seems to have been effectually
showed into the discard for, a
couple of weeks ago, he was
arrested near Ishpeming, Mich,
for selling booze to Albin John
son in one Of Stephenson's camps.
There are a couple of Madam
oiselles Garceau. One about
% years old, became the mother
Of a fatherless babe last May,
which babe ethnologists and phys
Economists declare looks some
what like Col. King. But all
that is another story.
Mrs. Garceau lived for a time
at 526 E. Fifth St., where King
is alleged to have been a steady
visitor and even sleeper. Com
plants Of the neighbors compell-
ed Madame Garceau to move
from there to 524 E. Third st.
Being routed out of the last
named place, Col. King is alleg-
ed to have taken his inamorata
to Superior last July.
No college boy can rollick and
frolic like Col. King, despite his
81 years. Wine, women and
song are not unwelcome helps
when he goes out to wake up the
town.
When the Superior carnival
was on a few months ago, Col.
King won a goose in some of the
stunts going on. He had quite a
wrangle with the operator of the
skin game before he got possess
sion Of the goose. A prominent
Duluthian saw him rambling
about the carnival grounds with
the big, White goose under one
arm and Madame Garceau hang
ing onto the other.
It looked - funny enough to
make craven image laugh.
: Then, according to Mrs. King s
allegations in her complaint in
the action for divorce, King
brought Madame Garceau back
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