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Wlln KlUHboCon tinned From the Firat PnKe.annulment of his marriage, on the ground that, like Rodolph Valentino, movie star, his wife was married to him before her California divorce became final. Supremo Court Justice Wagner has granted Mrs Peabody $100 a week alimony and $750 counsel fees pending settlement of the case.Thia is Mrs Peabody’s side of the story, continued in an affidavit:—“When he was a poor man. I struggled together with him; I washed, cooked and scrubbed in order to assist him. V hen lie becajne wealthy I shared in his prosperity. Now that he is In receipt of a fabulous income he institutes an action to annul our marriage, claiming it is void bv reason of a technicality. Then he seeks to starve me Into submission.”Mr Peabody denies he ever sought to avoid his duties as husband and charges that, while he was absent from home, suites occupied by him and his wife and various hotels served as a place of rendezvous” for various men whom he names.Swayed by Valentino CaseMr Peabody says he at first contemplated a divorce suit, but upon readinr. newspaper accounts of the Valentino case, decided a suit to annul would be his proper recourse. He bases his action on the contention that when the defendant became his wife on Oct « 1910. she was still the wife of James Sargent, formerly of Chicago, because a decree of divorce, granted in California that September, was still in the In terlocutory stage.”Mr Peabody further sets forth thatonce before he broke with his wife overher acquaintance with a certain manhut that they were reconciled on herpromise to cancel old friendships. MrPeabody asserts she failed to keep herpromise, despite the fact he had aidedher brother. Edward A. Wheeler, getclear of a charge of murder in Tulsa. Okla.Referring to another man. the plaintiff said his wife had been greatly agitated when that individual attempted suicide after having called on her In the Hotel Commodore.Tells of First MarriageMrs Peabody said sho had married dar-gent in Chicago in 1902. when she wan less than 19; that they separated whtl*-living in Whittier. Calif; that she we.nl to Chicago to get a divorce; that Sargent suggested, instead, that he brluK suit in California on the ground of dt-sertion. and that she had agreed tc avoid the cost of litigation.While the California suit was pond-ing, she said, Peabody begged her tc marry him. Therefore, she said. lua« than a month after the interlocutory 4e-cree was granted, they were wed ir j South Bend, Ind.Mrs Peabody asserts and the husbanc denies thut he expressed to her his lovt for another woman.MAN BREAKS WINDOW OF JEWELRY ST0RPedestrians in the vicinity of New paper row were startled about 7 o’clo last evening when a man picked upi ravin if briclr anil ^
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Boston Daily Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Oct 20, 1922
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