Kitty’s murder trial in 1882<\/a>, but not much else of a personal nature. We know even less about Sadie, except that she divorced Sam after just four years, having suffered months of physical abuse at\u00a0his hands. And, of course, her later liaison with Marshal Davis.<\/p>\nWIFE FEARS THAT FORMER MARSHAL WILL MURDER HER<\/h3>\n
Fast-forward to 1907. Sadie has been married to\u00a0Marshal Davis for about a year, after “a courtship extending over nine years” (and making her, at the very least, Mrs. Sadie\/Kate\/Kitty “maiden name” “Blonger” Wilson Blonger Domedion Davis). She is noted as the “proprietress of the Claire hotel, 1641 Arapahoe street.”\u00a0The context suggests\u00a0she is\u00a0still in the brothel business.<\/p>\n
Davis, it seems, had returned from a trip and confronted his wife at the Claire, threatening to kill her and all her “friends.” What’s more, he “applied opprobrious epithets to her.” Now\u00a0Sadie wants a\u00a0divorce and a restraining order.<\/p>\n
\u00a0All told, it sounds like it sucked to be her. Taking a few liberties, I would describe it thus: Kitty was a prostitute under Sam and Lou’s protection in 1882, and perhaps prior. Maybe after, as well.<\/p>\n
In 1888, while\u00a0working at Somerset’s in Peach Springs, Arizona,\u00a0Kitty shot Charles Hill when he busted in on her with another client.\u00a0She was tried, and acquited.<\/p>\n
Then, in 1889, Sam divorced his first wife and immediately took Kitty as his bride.\u00a0By that time she was referred to as Mrs. Sadie Wilson.<\/p>\n
In May of 1893, Sadie divorced Sam\u00a0after a\u00a0series of brutal beatings, claiming a longstanding pattern of abuse. In October of the same year, she was seen traveling with Marshal Davis. At this time she was already being referred to as Mrs. Hank Domedion, and noted as running a “rooming house.”<\/p>\n
By 1906 they were calling it a “hotel.” That year, after a “nine year” courtship, she married Davis. And within a year,\u00a0Davis was ready to commit mass murder.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First of all, I’d like to mention for the record that, although Scott agrees with me that Sam’s second wife Sadie Wilson, and gun-slinging prostitute Kate “Kitty” Blonger, are\u00a0likely the same person, he cautions, correctly, that this is not the only possible conclusion. But at present it remains the\u00a0most obvious one. Which brings us to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}