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? -TO-layCHARGES HER MOTHER WITWINNING HUSBAND.4 IDaughter - of William • C*-. Gray, Onceoil I : Editor of the liiterior—Hus- { ■I hand Fays $15,000 to i \Escape Suit. '*• cor-early The rriost. sensational affair of )sepli the time is the separation of Mr.. and veral William'-C. Purcell of Oak Park. He is a millionaire malster and he has just paid his wife $45,000 ;put-open right to separate and refrain from aipnds public suit. .• . ‘ * . . t r ' ... w • #The remarkable thing is that sheand accllses h~r mother, Mrs. William C. *. r Gray, widow of the late editor of thenmg interior, official organ of the Pres-also byterian clmrcli in this country, of :1 at winning the affections of her hus-euri- I,:,l|d and of having been guilty of nil-lawf ul relations with him - for years. She says she has had no communication with her mothetvnor her husband, rvhom she married at 18, Xor twelve years. ; ?-;.w“It is true,” said Mrs. Purcell yesterday. “I know It is a horriblecii arge o n ke that a mother sho lid steal the affections of her daughter's husband, but I have had too eonvin-UTE | ring proof to admit denial. It was my own little boy who first gave mean insight into the relations existing between riiy mother and my husband;ving He had been at his grandmother’sid one day, and when he returned homebe told me, not realizing the seriousness of it, how he had seen hi?grandmother in his father’s arms and had heard him call her 'darling.’ and »i have endured it because it was ugb- my mother who came between mvwithven-pplethertienventandbileit abe-*ing•bedfereThe»odymiicedhusband and myself. Had it been another woman, I would have taken this step Jong ago. for I have known for years the depth and strength of this infatuation. My husband wenf to her home on the street jtust next- to the one where we lived nearly every evening. He spent his Sunday? there, and he went there mornings before he took the train for the cityI1 ave jnysel seen my mother hm?!him at my very door.”The Grays are among the oldestresidents of Oak Park. • where theyhave, lived for thirty-five years. Theyare relatives of Whitelaw Reid United States ambassador to court of St. James. Mrs.u • I visiting her cousin, - therted I ,Tlul”e Harrison of San Francis^: ama niece of Whitelaw Reid, at tlutimG of Bje earthquake, The Gray*UIIl*s._ are also relatives of the late United al- States Senator Calvin ; S. Brice ofa woman of peri haps 65 years, who has occupied a foremost position in social and church affairs in Oak Park for many years. Mrs. 1 - ircell .is 44 years old,hut does not look more than 30.The Purcells have two sons, Wil-asga liam Gray Puhep, an architect; %hci 3 11 is now in Rome, Italy,anc who com-a I .pleted a course at Cornell university four years ago, and Ralph Purcell, ESS 117 years old, who lives with his father.
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Quincy Daily Herald

Quincy, Illinois, US

Mon, May 07, 1906

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