Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-02
MRS. wITHERREE TALKS

| MRS. WlTHERREE TALKS.
She Denies the sc.ndaleus stories
About Her, and Charges Her Husba nd
with Many Shorsco@inx..
The New York Herald to-day publishes a long
interview with Mrs Marie A. witherbee who has
returned from Bismarck to defend herself from
the sensational stories growing out OF her mar
| rage with and separation from A. s. witherbee of
this city. She emphatically denies the scandalous
| stories.
BEFORE THE MARRIAGE.
sne tells how she nrst met Mr.. Wttherbee and
says he was represented as q member OF the nrm Of
Brentano Brothers Co, and was q man who
might have easily been mistaken for gentleman.
AFTER the marriage he did not take her TO a hand
sonely furnished house, stated but on the con-
trary, 10 meager quarters consisting of two fur
hlshed rooms In boarding house In an undesira-
Ole quarter OF Westinghouse. SO4 11th street
a gross fraud upon her, and instead Of being a
ineinOer OF the hrm OF Brentano Brothers Co., re-
esNlng an income OF 50 900 year, as he had as
sured her, he was clerk in their employ az S75 q
| month
subsequently he appealed to her to solicit loan
OF 5000 from Mr.. Ii. Lee Borden. She applied to
MI Borden, who, instead OF lending Mr.. Wither-
pee the money, generously presented it to him.
Mr Wltheroee then purchased an interest In the
washington branch OF the firm, and became q
member OF 1t In April 1896, two months after our
| marriage Mrs Wi herbee claims that she SUI
anS mar ha % sh a. ner nusoanus nanuss
while traducing his benefactOr, whose relations
aractiona,e no puao % e,Si 1851 oS.moer ca
denies thai sne ivs o uuSlui no.
with wealthy New Yorker but states that she
mata ,,,,n r, 100 onncy w im..
d.
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No. rt,. s,,n 81 .oS .uas wouu soon oe uue ~. .
AS l had already given him Large amount OF
charyed nm Win inS5a,,, " ~, oo n ro,,ad
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beo,e ins nr oI ., 100 mn I,n hb 70 & unv
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Mrs Witherbee then alleges that she demanded
her nronarty md ,nnnsS, ~ nsr S,,,n, a 1
s,enfpv conmanca it ,o Az. th anu SUI S
fnrniInrs siiverWare Sc ioi 'no ie9o'oi' vi nei
ATTACKED TO PREVENT DIVORCE.
She continues: "Mr. Witherbee has motives for
melting these scurrilous attacks upon me through
INC press oh august "a 1887, Judge Mackey ap-
pied 10 him as my counsel TO Join In q deed for
the sale OF my separate estate and rendered him
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