El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-10
SAYS DOSTER
NOT MARRIED

] Buckley says the other woman" OBJ
| tanned a divorce from Garfield in
Phoenix, Arizona, last August, where
3 Capt Doster practiced medicine be-
I fore entering the army He was the
/ son OF judge Frank DOster, former
/ CHIEF justice Of the Kansas supreme
! court, who now resides in Pasadena,
/ California
The statement follows:
I was engaged TO Capt. Wade
! Doster. He asked me first TO marry
] him in September, 1918 We would
] have been married 8 soon as he could
army and got rid Of the women with
/ whom he lived.
Her maiden name was Maude Nus
grove. She had been married TO Har-
/ ~ Garfield, Of Coldwater. Kansas
! She obtained a divorce from Mr.. Can
field IN Phoenix. Arizona, late last
August With the divorce she was 10
I resume her maiden name.
aMaude Musgrove never was
married to Capt. DOster. In let
tiers TO me he repeatedly told me
this fact I refused to marry him
until he rid himself OF her.
This he promised to do as soon
as he could get out Of the army. He
did not wish to create a scandal while
Z be was in the army.
His letters, dozens OF them, TO me
were filled with loving terms We
! discussed his predicament freely. He
! had two children by his first wife.
who died in Coldwater in February.
1917 He wanted me 70 mother them
and take care OF them.
Futher Helped Raise Money.
capt Doster told me he had been
forced TO give Maude $500 to leave
him. De said they had signed AM
agreement TO this effect Ny under
standing was Capt DOster paid herl
a lump sum and the balance was to
be paid al the rate OF s65 a month
Later in a letter he told me his father
had raised the s65 a month to SIS a
month on condition Maude would not
see capt DOster for a year.
"Maude threatened the life OF Cant.
Doster several times He had taken
gun from her at least twice. Hei
told me 20 stay away from her and III
ever saw her 20 get out OF her way
as she had threatened repeatedly to-
kill me.
When DR.. Doster first asked me tol
marry him in Manhattan, Kansas. /
even then he was mixed up with
Maude Garfield.
-Maude Garfield went to Man
hnttuns Kansas TO live with DR..
DOster- Then he enlisted ana
went TO Fort Riley. She also
went. posing ns his wife, and from
there they went to Camp Kearny
and last July 70 Columbus.
'Maude frequently threatened Capt.
Doster with prosecution under the
white slave, laws and he was afraid
able discharge until he left the army.
II was this fact that kept him with
her. They often quarreled bitterly.
Most OF the time DR.. Doster was in 3
the army was in Colorado. Denver
and Pueblo I left Pueblo February
IS or 19 TO come to FL Paso to learn
what the conditions were surrounding
llr- Doster- I was in Columbus two
days since that time.
Talked Over Telephone.
Sunday night. apparently before I
Maude arrived in Columbus I talked
telephone He seemed happy and ,ssr-
tain Maude had left him FOR good. !
Today I was sitting in the park. read I
lhs newspaper when I suddenly saw
he had been killed.
Capt Doster would have been dis
charged this month He was planning
70 engage in private practice in New
Mexico was 70 20 TO him and We 4
were 20 be married Now II can never
7 cannot understand why sfaude
killed him. could understand her
killing herself, but not him.
"she was Jealous Of me. where
~ IN Eeality 1 was engaged to
him and should have been the one
TO hold the most bitterness. an
the Ereatest loser.
Il wonder II the world will under
stand my suffering and humiliation %
MIS- Beckley last night made public I
some OF the letters she had received /
from capt DOster recently One writ /
ten September 10 said II Cant Dosfar I
could get away for ten DAYS fbev
could be married The letter was
written on Y. II. c. A. stationery to 4
Mrs Beckley, who then was in Man 4
haitian. Kansas. It said:
Dear Pedro Mother OF God how
CAD an 70 hear from you again
The days and nights have been hell /
Tor month There is 50 much I want /
70 say and no way to say. Things /
nave been in a terrible mess. but are
slowly Strengthening themselves ont
Write as you did Address me as Won
did in the telegram.
I an due to get out September 80.
nut have heard nothing as vet from
my application for discharge. Neither
have the other medical officers here
VINO are In my same class. I am stuck
TIL / can get out OF the service. You
understand without my telling Won
that must have my honorable dis
charge and / cannot kick over thet
traces until I get my discharge
through Then I can and will in a
hurry.
'.Tortures OF the Damned
feel better since hearing from 4
you / was suffering the tOrtures Of
the damned with the uncertainty OF
everything.
Il want what you want Just as
badly as you do. hut we will have
TO leave Kansas for some other
place to live in. II won't do to
remain there. I an telling You
that other party f. a hell cat on
wheels know, dear.
You must write me often. Tell me
all the news I didn't get TO read
that last letter you wrote. Maude
got It rBut I made her burn Il and
had to fOrego reading II myself
i love you. dear, more than ever,
II such Is possible. and I long for
you. but I must grin and bear my
troubles till get out Of this mess no
matter how long il Is nor how hard
l shall never go back on you. Tell
me what you are going to work at
What did your dad say? What did
you say and how long were you
homer Tell me the news. ] never
set paper any more. I shall have
Stanley change the address.
BE brave girl, dear. and every
thing viii come ont for the best in
the next few months at the longest
If I could get away from here for
10 days to see you we could get mar
ried and then raving. as you say.
would do no good Now. write often