On September 23, I posted a "Wordless Wednesday" post" with a crazy news article I found on Newspapers.com from the Waukegan, Illinois newspaper about C. D. Tapley and another man disappearing. Their wives had filed complaints with the police, since in 1923, abandoning your wife and family was against the law. This is the news article:
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| Newspapers.com, Waukegan News-Sun (formerly Waukegan Daily Sun and the Waukegan Daily Gazette), Waukegan, Illinois, Friday, July 20, 1923, Page 6 |
There was no more information about the men returning home or anything. However, I found this week that Claud Deese Tapley actually did, at some point, return home. I know this because a short two years later, Claud was up to some shenanigans again.
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| Newspapers.com, Waukegan News-Sun, (formerly Waukegan Daily Sun and the Waukegan Daily Gazette), Waukegan, Illinois, Tuesday, October 20, 1925, Page 1 |
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| Newspapers.com, Waukegan News-Sun, (formerly Waukegan Daily Sun and the Waukegan Daily Gazette), Waukegan, Illinois, Monday, October 26, 1925, Page 7 |
Then, not a week later..
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| Newspapers.com, Waukegan News-Sun, (formerly Waukegan Daily Sun and the Waukegan Daily Gazette), Waukegan, Illinois, Monday, November 02, 1925, Pages 1 & 13 |
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| Newspapers.com, Waukegan News-Sun, (formerly Waukegan Daily Sun and the Waukegan Daily Gazette), Waukegan, Illinois, Tuesday, November 03, 1925, Page 1 |
Then I found this hilarious tidbit published just a week later half the state away:
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| Newspapers.com, The Daily Palladium, Pana, Illinois, Excerpt from the Purely Personal column entitled "Sucker-Tash" by Robert I. Weller, I. N. S. Correspondent, Tuesday, November 10, 1925, Page 4 |
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| Newspapers.com, Waukegan News-Sun (formerly Waukegan Daily Sun and the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois, Wednesday, November 04, 1925, Page 7 |
I was unable to find any other newspaper articles about the charges and their disposition. I believe Claud and Roxanna reconciled once again for an unknown amount of time. Around 1934, Claud relocated to Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida, USA. I do not know whether she accompanied him at that time.
In 1940, a Bill for Divorce notice was published for 4 consecutive weeks in the Vero Beach, Indian River, County, Florida, USA newspaper. Claude was listed as the complainant and Roxanna as the defendant. It says her whereabouts were unknown, which leads me to believe they had been separated for a period of time. However, since these notices were printed in Indian River County, Florida, that indicates to me that her last known whereabouts Claud knew of was this area, and he just didn't have an address for her.
The divorce was finalized in 1940 in Indian River County, Florida. They had been married 21 years. It seems they were just not compatible.
Claud remarried in 1947. He passed away from a heart attack, still in Fort Pierce, Florida, in 1959.
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