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The Facts & Mysteries Behind Baby Doe's Wedding to Horace Tabor |
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THE KNOWN FACTS: | |
It’s also well known that he and Baby Doe then sneaked off to St. Louis and got married by a Justice of the Peace three months later in September of 1882. But then when the Durango "divorce" and St. Louis "marriage" were discovered by Augusta during Tabor’s run for a Senate seat in late 1882, a new legitimate divorce was filed by Horace with plenty of intimidation behind it from Horace via his business partner Bill Bush. Fearful she’d lose everything, (and probably still hoping for a reconciliation down the road), Augusta finally agreed to the divorce on January 2, 1883, and Horace was finally rid of his first wife. Within a few months Horace then married Baby Doe in Washington DC on March 1, 1883. However, the Denver divorce between Horace and Augusta was evaluated later by a judge and several attorneys, and legal opinions seemed to have consensus that the divorce was invalid, although Augusta eventually stopped challenging it. | |
The newspapers had exposed the previous Horace/Augusta "divorce" in Durango and then the quick Horace/Baby Doe "marriage" in St. Louis, and finally the questionable 1883 Denver divorce from Augusta. The priest had known nothing about any of this, nor had anyone bothered to tell him the truth during pre-marriage interviews and discussions with the McCourt (Baby’s) family. The priest was incensed that he’d married two divorced people - one even a catholic - and he clearly believed he’d been deceived by everyone involved. It was written later by Baby Doe’s sister that their father suffered miserably for his transgressions against the church, and died within a few months after the wedding in Washington "from the guilt of knowing he’d lied to the priest." THE MYSTERY: First, if the facts, dates and legal proceedings above don't begin to boggle your mind and pose some mysteries to you, here’s a synopsis: 1880 - Baby Doe and Harvey Doe divorce Summer 1882 - Illegal divorce between Horace & Augusta filed in Durango September 1882 - Illegal marriage of Horace & Baby Doe in St. Louis January 1883 - Augusta agrees to second divorce filed by Horace March 1883 - Horace & Baby Doe marriage in Washington DC And yet there’s more!... The "legal" divorces and marriages had all occurred in or before 1883. Why then have we discovered new papers filed in 1886 to finalize the divorce between Baby Doe and her first husband Harvey Doe, Jr.?! Were Horace and Augusta ever legally divorced? Were Baby Doe and Harvey ever legally divorced? And if not, were Horace and Baby Doe ever legally married? |
Horace Tabor
Baby Doe
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