Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-18
A DRAMATIC SCANDAL.

1853 w
Country and an Interesting Divorce
Suit.
Mr.. Osmund Tearle, the English actor
at present performing at Wallack's, New
York, is being used by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Alice Tearle, for absolute divorce.
Mr.. Tearle has been in this country sew
eral years, but his wife only arrived at
New York ON the 7th of this month.
The cause of her visit was q letter re-
ceived from Mr.. Tearle, in which he
acknowledged, it is said. that he had
been unfaithful to her. She at once
determined to apply for a divorce. in
her application she alleges her marriage
to the defendant and that she resided
with him in Liverpool until December,
1882. When he came to this country he
promised to send her $500 a
year. from the LIST of January to the 18th
of March, this year, he has sent Cher
only $500. She borrowed 5000 to bring
her to this country, and will have to
undergo expenses in bringing her two
litigation will be large, and she will be
compelled to pay counsel. The defend
ants salary, she says, is 5000 a week ana
between his regular season and supple.
mental season, and a benefit each year,
his gross annual earnings amount, as she
believes to Sill 400. She asks the court
to order payment to her of alimony at
the rate of $75 a week, a counsel fee of
81, 600 and the $500 which she borrowed
to come to this country for the purpose
of asserting her martial rights. The
court decided to allow her alimony at
the rate of s., 900 a year and $3.50 for
counsel.
Embodied in her affidavit is a letter
written to her by her husband from
this country. in which he admits his un-
faithfulness to her and announces his
determination never more to live with
her. 1t is in full as follows:
New YORK, January 8, 1883.
MY DEAR WIFE-My cable would ap.
prise you Of my arrival. No use post
poning: let me at once say what must be
said. You must have seen during the
past few years the breach that was grad
ually widening between us. You know
perfectly we'll my feelings toward YOU
were anything but what they should be.
l cannot help it; my life to you has been
one of deceit. | have been unfaithful
to you from shortly after our marriage,
which was a fearful mistake. l watched
in astonishment the manner in which
you have known things, and yet calmly
bore them. Astonishment, because in
other matters you have shown spirit.
My life has been perfectly wretched for
some long time. Made doubly 80 since
my visit to this countay. What / told
you in Barrow was false, utterly false.
But as the time approached for my ar
irving in Liverpool a feeling of repug-
nance came to me and l had to lie to
avoid doing what l could not-my whole
nature abhorred at the mere thought.
Knowing this it is much better we
should part. l cannot, no matter what
the consequences, live With you
again. Is it not wiser then to end it?
In fact it cannot be otherwise. Add to
all this the knowledge I love another
deeply, as | never believed could love.
Have loved for nearly two years. That
this love was the cause OF what has hap
pened in England some short time since;
that when your letter appeared in the
Era, they went on the continent with q
mere goodbye, and, on the second news
appearing, our correspondence was re-
sumed and they are o on their way
back. My love is such that l am pre-
pared for anything, SO what worth am I
to you with another woman's love in my
heart? Our lives would be simply abb
ject Indebtedness, with an end-God
only knows what. I shall send you $500
a year, in G25 every month. And
should what is written induce you to sue
for a divorce, | shall send the same in
come for our children.
You threatened to come over here
did l not return in July: Should you do
so it would be exceedingly foolish and
not mend matters at all. In fact make
them worse. This is a.. very inhospita-
BILE country to women in any
ease, and l should necessa-
rlly have to be very cruel to you.
Besides l am taking ont my papers as an
American citizen and should then obtain
a divorce. a thing easily procured here
with money and influence. So be sensi-
BILE. Nothing in the world can alter this
decision. 1t is %irrevocable. I can
endure this misery l have done. God
Knows / suffer as l write this. 1t has
made me i'll, and ] have postponed it
from day to day. 1 intended writing be-
fore ! left the ship, but could not bring
myself to it. Until at last I have forced
myself in the early morning, not being
able to sleep. But l left England with
the determination, and must carry it
out.
God help and pity you. But you will
be far better without me. | am not, mol
ever have been worthy ofyou, and many
a time have said l would give, were /
the possessor of it, untold gold could I
only even like you. Don't teach our
children quite to hate me, although you
ought. 1 shall come over to see them,
if l may. But for yourself you must,
you cannot help it, hate, loathe
and despise me, curse me. 1t
will at least be only my desert. And
try to forget such a wretch ever lived.
God bless and shield you from harm,
and should our marriage ties be severed
send (ind?) some true one who will
make you as happy in the future a 1
have made you miserable in the past.
Kiss the childrenf for me .1lhey are, thank
God, in good hands. May they grow up
to love and bless you and make some re-
turn for their fathers baseness.
Again and again God bless you.
Your husband,
GEORGE.
On his first appearance in New York
city three seasons ago az leading man at
Wallack's Mr.. Tearle was accompanied
by Miss Ethel Arden. who, he said, wa
his wife. He introduced her as such to
many ladies' and gentlemen at a supper