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The Facts & Mysteries Behind Baby Doe's Divorce of Harvey Doe |
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In her divorce affidavit, Baby Doe wrote: "I saw my husband the defendant out on the second day of March in the evening go into the house of ill fame of Lizzie Preston’s on Holliday Street in the City of Denver. I went to the door and the woman who came to the door asked me what I wanted. I told her that I had just seen my husband going in and I wanted to follow him. The woman told me that if I came in I would be in a house of ill fame too. I then pushed past the woman at the door and saw my husband in one of the rooms. I then turned around and came right out and went home . Mr. Newman, the policeman accompanied me home. I had no knowledge or even consented to him going there and never thought he would go into such a place..." THE MYSTERY: Horace and Augusta Tabor had relatives and business associates living in Central City at the same time Baby Doe was living there and frequenting the Shoo-Fly Saloon with Jake Sands. It seems unlikely, particularly as visible and well known as Baby Doe had become in Central City, that she had not crossed paths with Horace Tabor long before she moved to Leadville. | |
Horace Tabor was an investor and part owner of the Windsor Hotel in Denver when Baby Doe was also staying there. And coincidentally, that was where she was staying on the same night she caught her husband Harvey Doe, Jr. in Lizzie Preston's House of Ill Fame in Denver's red light district just down the street. Horace Tabor was well known for his associations with known prostitutes like Willie DeVille and Alice Morgan in Chicago, Denver and Leadville. One can only wonder what would have prompted Baby Doe to leave the Windsor Hotel that special night, walk down to the red light district of Denver, conveniently accompanied by a Denver police officer, then stop directly across the street from Lizzie Preston’s at precisely the same time her husband was going in. Harvey claimed later in a letter to his parents, that he had been told by an acquaintance that another man "might be found" inside Lizzie’s house of ill fame who might want to buy one of his mines, which was why he went in Lizzie Preston’s in the first place. And why would Baby include in her affidavit the precise words, "...I had no knowledge or even consented to him going..." as if already trying to lay the groundwork for denying she knew in advance he would be there? Was there a "setup" with Horace and Baby to get rid of Harvey once and for all? |
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