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Owen Burns, Wealthy Chicagoan, Sues Wife, WhoStarts Counter Action.NEW YORK. Oct. 19.-Owen Burns of, Chicago and New York, has sued • his pretty wife Dorothy for divorce, naming fellow members of the exclusive Calumet Club of Chicago. They were married May 13, 1905.Mrs. Burns denies the charge, and today, May Jacobson applied to Justice Truax in the Supreme Court for alimony and counsel fees for her. Mrs. Burns says her husband since their separation, has paid $11*5 a month for her apartments In Chicago and that he often told her his income was more than $30,000 a year. She avers he is worth at least $750,000.After denying that she was too friendly with any of the co-respondents named by her husband, Mrs. Burns says after their honeymoon at Salt Lake City and on the Pacific Coast they came to New York to visit Mr. Burns’ sister, Mrs. J. A. Wilkins, who lived in Burns terrace. In wood. There resided Mrs. Burns, seventy-live years old, who. the affidavit declares, made it disagreeable for the young bride from the start. Burns, she says, took his mother’s part, and in a quarrel slapped her. lie slapped her frequently after that, she says. - .“We were in Europe,’’ she says, “fromDecember to February last. In Paris MlsaBeauchesue and I went for a ride. Our cabby was drunk. We got out; I paid the fares and said we would walk. He threatened to strike me with his whip. Two young Englishmen came to our protection. They escorted us to the car for home. 1 told of the. adventure uud my husband accused me of picking up these men and il.rtlng wir . them. 4“While we dined at The Hague last New Year’s night with' Mr. -and Mrs. I-lluze of Chicago, and Marquis Belgrano aud his daughter and Mine. Beaucliesne, Isadora Duncan, the dancer., and her young class were at another table, and my husband flirted or tried to flirt with one of them, a-lift den-year-old girl.”' Justice Truax reserved decision. •Five years ago- Burns figured-in a- sensational episode involving Mrs. Juliette C. Moriss-,Smith, a wealthy Virginia widow, who “hekl him up” at nis office and at the * point of a revolver demanded $3,000 she had loaned him. The'widow declared Burns- had made ardeut love to her and had secured the money from her in London to “tide him over” while abroad.. Burns, through a ruse, calmed the woman and notified the police. When the detectives arrived they found Mrs. Smith with the revolver still in her hand, and before siie left the building she had beep iriven a check for The balanceis said t# have been turned over to her.Mrs. Burns occupies elaborate apartments in the Thyiubria Building, 5009 Grand boulevard. She is twenty-four years old. has reddish brown hair and a trim figure.Two weeks ago Mrs. Burns learned of her husband’s plans to bring divorce proceedings and she stole a march on him by securing in the Chicago courts an injunction restraining him from enterig their apartment.Friends of Mrs. Burns declared lust night that the divorce mill has worked overtime hi the Burns family. .Six of the seven brothers, they say, have figured in the divorce courts.Mr. Burns is president of the W. F. *Burns Company, manufacturers -»f penny savings banks, with offices In Chicago. New Ifcork and Suu Francisco. He is forty-fivety___ars old. A brother, It. j. Burns, lives at Cornell avenue.
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Tue, Oct 20, 1908
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