New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-09
MIR. BANGSS HONEYMOON.
THE DISCARDED wIFEs THREATS.

MIR. BANGSS HUME IMOON'
THE DISCARDED wIFE'S THREATS.
HER WEAPONS DEEDS, NOT woRDs-MR- BANGss
RECITAL.
Brevoort- place. Brooklyn is one of the pleasant.
est streets in the pleasant and sunny localty IN
which it is placed. and the houses there yestrraay
No. 81, however. is the theatre in which pam
full domestic drama was lately played, lot a ~
the sDa her home %otbs Of M ms' Merritt rnBUSs
reporter was received by the former yesterday ar
ternoon in a pretiIy furnished little boud9lr look
The hack of the house. Mrs. Bangs is a tall, we'll
preserved blonde whose rather prepossessng ioa
lures and general attractyeness evidently helgn
tened rather than diminished oy tne Skiu r dS9 10
sundry toilet appliances" She was rlcnIy
dressed and received the reporter with mucn
courtesy. II have seen some OF the morning
prepared with my defence. l do not want, how
ever to stats anything l caunot prove, ana nv
defence will take the form OF deeds rather tnah
.'DO you desire to deny the charge Mr.. Bangs has
made against yOuf"
'No, SIR That man is utterly beneath CONTEMPT.
and silence il the only denial or answer | care to
make Nv future steps will consist of actions In
the courts of law. and atter myself the true state
of the case will tnen appear" 800
ibid Mr Bangs leave you of bis own accordf"
"Ah! know he Sd, that, but must really beg
you TO excuse nv answering you directly Que way
making counter charges and entering on any public
controversy with sucn man as my husband has
proved himself TO lie. 1t is now question only for
the l,wyers," and Mrs. Bangs gracefully rose and
81 gniied that the conversation was at an end.
Mess:s. b. f. Tracy and De Witt are her
New-YOrk counsel in the matter. but IT was found
OF Town.
Seated in the room in the Sturtevaut House which
when not ON the road he has occupied Tor the last
twelve years. Mr. Bangs last night related his
domestic history to a TRIBUNE reporter. The
veteran actor clad in long six dressing gown,
aud his dramatic intODstlon and gestures, coupled
with the mellow vibrating voice an nandsone
features, set OFF by the white hair and mustachc,
added peculiar interest to the painful recital.
eff my wife says that | did not leave
her house of my own accord after returning TO 1T
only at her earnest enreaty, she says what Is dis
tDctly false Let me- detail You the events prlor
and subsequent to marriage. For months that
woman sought to form nv acQuain lance. and II was
only when was playing IN tne Corsican Broth
ers" at M bios Garden, that she prevailed on mn-
tual friend 10 introduce her. After the performance
we went, accompanied by this frend and another
lady, to the Irving House, where we had some SUI.
per. From that night ont she Swallowed me- III
she was not with me she was sending notes, mes
sages and telcgram- | sick, sir, at the time, so
sick that my doctor positively forbade my co1tln-
Jung to act Shs soon oesa3f to 10 rex; exercise se
implOred me to accept money, Tor she had
iound out that was IN straltened circumstances |
refused for a long while but at last consented 10
accept her check for 81 600 and take the necessary
rest my doctor ordered. AS wrote 10 her at the
tlme, 1t seemed as though she some minsterlng
angel come to hent up my lite: l went to N Ny,
there aim st came engaged for, 10 tho feeling
of or titude which possessed me there succeeded
something stronger and holler. became infatuated
with her. You have seen her and KNOW she ls
beautiful and sue likes be winning ali fasci-
mating. On orr return To New-York asked her to
be my wife and she glacly consented hen 1t was
thatl compliance with her of repeated entreates
accepted from her additional $4,000 IN one l,OOO
and one $1,000 check to pay on the debt owed to
four trusty friends who had backed my ill-fat"d
starring tour. One of them to whom owed 81, 800
would only take 81 800, and made me present
of the $1,000 to use IN any way chose added
1t TO 5000 OF my savings and bought my sister for
whom l have lived aud worked for twenty
years. some furniture. and set her
up IN housekeeping On the Fourth
ward bad made up my mind that could never live
with her All my life. On july z, after undergone
and resolved to leave her even then. For
four hours she pleaded with me 10
forgive her and eventually consented. Those
who attended receptions III Washington aud
Philadelphia did not guess what struggle had to
endure the constant presence of that grInnIns skel
etou the sad truth learned lew hours after INV
like tiger and Tor the third time overwhelmed me
with torrent of abuse, telling me that she had
bought me and so on, did leave her and came here.
Her lawyer followed me and alter two hours talk
/ cOnsen ed to reiur on my own conditions, which
that we should occupy separate rnom' that
should never eat the same table, aud that IN The
fall when | got an engagement. we should finally
separate and subsequently, obtain Qule div"rce.
l did return and Two days afterward took her
mother, VINO dear, good old lady, down 10
Coney Island along with my wlfcs son and he
nurse On my return found he door OF my
room locked, and my wifesitting in her room with a
young man whom sne pays Il salary 10 wait on ner.
Il want III, diamond ring / gave you,' was her
greeting. drew t Oft handed IL to her, and mere
ly sand: leave You now. madam, for ever andn
half an hour after nv things were PACKED had
rung for a cab and had started for New-York.
That, sir, Is, before God the literal truth
of the whole affair She has think, lost
her cause by striking vt me through an innocent
woman my sister, who will, fear. not survive the
terrible exposure and pubncity. / Can only add
that no man of sell-IesUecL could live with thar
woman aud had done | should have been
rsving mani1c before very long. Let her do her
worst the bitterest part is past"