FINDS HUSBAND HERE
WITH ANOTHER WOMAN.
WICHITA WIFE CAUSES THE AR-
REST OF BOTH.
Picture of Girl Found in Heskett's
Pocket, the Clue by Which They
Were Located at the
Peristyle.
In hopes of revenging herself on her husband, who, she said, had deserted her about two years ago, Mrs. James W. Heskett of Wichita, Kas., arrived in Kansas City yesterday morning, and through the aid of James Orford, a city detective, found her alleged husband with another woman at the Peristyle apartments at Ninth and Charlotte streets.
She saw both arrested and locked up at police headquarters last night. At the time of her marriage, ten years ago, Heskett's father was the sheriff of Sumner county, and he was his chief' deputy. At the time of the alleged desertion he sold his house and, the woman says, left his wife and child only $500. Until his arrest last night, the two had never met, nor had she received a word from him.
BOTH COLD AT MEETING.
"Yes. I want to prosecute them both," said Mrs. Heskett last night. She is a small woman, with bright blue eyes and blond hair. The blue eyes flashed when she made the declaration. "I thought I loved him, but now I wouldn't live with him for anything. I wouldn't give up my position in a confectionery store in Wichita, where I'm getting only $6 a week, to live in luxury with my husband.
Inspector of Detectives Ryan asked Heskett a few questions and called Mrs. Heskett into his office.
"How do you do," she said frigidly, and Heskett's reply was just as cold.
"What did you leave me and the baby for?" she continued.
"Now I mean to prosecute you, and before I leave I want to see that woman you ran away with. I just want to look at her once," and she stamped her foot. The husband did not reply, and was taken back to the holdover.
Mrs. Heskett was allowed to see her rival, who was sitting in the matron's room. Detective Orford and Inspector Ryan accompanied her.
THE TWO WOMEN MEET.
Orford introduced the two women.
"This is my wife," he said. Both bowed coldly. "You knew he was married, didn't you?" he asked.
Then the tears began to well up in the eyes of the second woman, and a moment later she was sobbing.
"I just loved him so much," she said, "and I still love him. He told me that he didn't love you, and that we would always be happy. I'm his common law wife, and we are married in the eyes of our neighbors."
Mrs. Heskett bit her lip.
"I'm the one that has suffered," she said, as the party filed out of the door. "Now one knows how I have suffered."
Heskett was a conductor for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe out of Wichita. He had known his wife since they were children, and had gone to the high school in Wellington together. After his term as deputy marshal there had expired he moved to Wichita and the two paid for a small home and were living happily.
LEFT PICTURE IN POCKET.
About three years ago Heskett met Miss Mamie Hensen of Englewood, Kas., on one of his trips. He finally lost his position with the railroad. After inducing his wife to allow him to sell the property, the wife says he kissed her one morning and told her he was going to Kansas City to hunt work. When he secured employment he would send for her.
When no letters came, Mrs. Heskett became suspicious, and remembered a picture of Miss Hensen which she had taken out of her husband's coat. She sent the picture to the Kansas City police, and Detective Orford located couple after a long search.
The couple, the detective says, had been living as man and wife at the Peristyle apartments for four months. The woman has been employed in a millinery house and Heskett was the shipping clerk in a wholesale wall paper house. He had not used an alias. James Heskett, Sr., moved to Clinton, Ill., six years ago, and is reported to be a wealthy farmer. Mrs. Heskett says that he has known of her plight, and has known of his son's whereabouts. She said last night that she would not return to Wichita until she had prosecuted her husband, and that complaints would be filed with the prosecuting attorney today.
