Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-12-30
PULLMAN GIRL HAS
TWO LIVING HUSBANDS
Mrs. Earl Gibson WEEDS Childhood
Sweetheart Before Divorcing Her
Former Husband

son OF Pullman appeared in the
Spokesman-Reyiew of Wednesday:
Because she thought that, having
been deserted by her husband, she
might marry another if she did not
live with him until she obtained di-
Vorce from the first one, Mrs. Earl
Gibson, 10, of Pullman, was married
to the boy friend of her schooldays.
Lindley DeJarnette, 81, of Govan,
December 10, according to the father
OF the bride, Bert Draper, who visited
Spokane yesterday.
Mr.. Draper came to Spokane as
soon as he learned of his daughters
act to consult an attornew in an at
tempt to extricate her frem her di-
lemma.
A dozen or SO years ago in Govan
Mr., Draper was farmer, and the
father of young DeJarnette, Langdon
DeJarnette, was a rural mail carrier.
The boy and the girl, Estella, went to
the same school together. They were
just chums in those days, but as time
went on they became sweethearts.
Then Mr.. Draper removed to an
other farm near Pullman, while the
DeJarnette family stayed at Govan.
The boy and the girl correspondent for
a time, but gradually this ceased,
Then came the war and young De-
Toruatto iOiuod +ha noIrre
Some months later Mr.. and Mrs.
William Gibson came to live on a
farm near the Draper place at Pull
man, bringing with them their son,
Earl. Earl was at once attracted to
Estella, and finally they were mar
ried last May. The bride went to the
home of her husbands parents to
live, and she was there when, after
about three weeks, her husband
went into town one morning to get
his automobile repaired.
In the afternoon, when the young
man should have returned home,
there came a letter from him to his
bride. He informed her that he be-
lieved they were too young to have
married He was sure, he wrote,
that they never would be happy, al
though, he added, she had been good
to him.
The girl was dazed. When she had
recovered little she telephoned to
her father, who came at once to the
Gibson place and brought his daugh-
ter home. There she has since lived,
while his daughters husband lives
with his parents.
You may think it strange, said
the father yesterday that l do not
show more feeling against young
Gibson. However, I am not bitter
toward him. 1 realize that what he
did, though done in a harsh way was
done as he believed for the good OF
both the young people. I have
known him for quite while, and l
always believed he was an honest
and conscientious young man.
The daughter had an invitation to
spend the holidays at Wilbur, with
friends she had known while in GO
van as a little girl. So two weeks
or so ago she went to Wilbur and
while there she saw young DeJar-
nette for the first time since he had
returned from the war. He knew,
then, nothing of her marriage
At once the old time affection or
the former chums was revived. Fin
ally he urged her to marry him and
she consented, believing at that time
that the desertion of her husband
was the virtual equivalent of d.
vorce, and that she had only to re-
main apart from her second husband
until she obtained the divorce from
the first one to legalize the second
ceremony.
They went to Occur d'Alene, Ida
no, where, December 10, the cere-
mony was performed by justice OF
the peace. They then took the next
train back to Spokane.
Here their ways parted, the boy
going to the home of his parents IN
Govan and she returning to her
fathers house near Pullman.
But finally the secret of their mar
rage came out. The father ques-
toned the girl, and she admitted IT,
Then he took her with him and went
to Wilbur again, where they found
young DeJarnette. The young man
made no denial, insisted that he real
" desired Estella for his wife, ana
would stand by her through any
present difficulty.
That settled, they came to Spokane