The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-24

! ing presented his bill to Mr.. Blaine when
the latter was in this city. Mrs. Blaine
| had no money to pay grocers bills ana the
| like though, and she had to get all her sup
| plies for time on credit. Then she sent
letter after letter and telegram after tele-
| gram to her husband. asking him to write
| to her and provide for her. She received
no response. The return card of regis
tered letter sent by her was sent back bear
ing the signature of Walker Blaine.
Mrs Blaine did not wish to ask her pa
rents for money and finally at her request,
a lawyer here wrote to Mr.. Blaine the
elder asking him to provide for his daughter
in-law. Mr.. Blaine answered that his sons
wife had gone away from Augusta against
her husbands wishes and that the Blaine
family could not concern themselves about
her.
oct l arrived, and Mrs. Blaine had to
give up possession of her fat in Fifty-tifth
street. The furniture in the fiat had not
been paid for, and it was reclaimed by the
house from which it had been purchased.
Mrs. Blaine went to live with her parents
in the New York hotel. She consulted
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, and by his advice
wrote a long letter to her husband through
a third party, making every advance
toward reconciliation ando ffering to live
with him whenever he wished. No answer
came.
"Then, last Tuesday, Mrs Blaine, her
baby and nurse, and her mother, Mrs.
Nevins, went to Augusta The party drove
in a carriage from the railroad station TO
the Blaine mansion, and on the way Mrs.
Blaine saw the face of her husband at ho-
tel window. At the Blaine residence Mrs
Blaine the elder said that her son was out
and would not be Ill until o'clock p. III.
1t was then o'clock in the afternoon.
livery WELL we'll wait, said young Mrs.
Blaine, and wait they did until she was con-
WINGED that her husband had entered the
house and was in his room. Mrs.
Blaine, ST., said finally that her
son did not wish t. see his wife,
and Mrs. Blaine Jr., declared that she did
not believe this to be true. 1t was finally
agreed that a maid should 20 up stairs and
bring down James G.. Blaine, Jr's, word.
The maid started to go, but was called
back by Mrs. Nevins, who detected, or
thought she detected, Mrs. Blaine the elder
in an attempt to reach her sons room be-
fore the maid. Mrs. Nevins went out to
her carriage in disdain, but her daughter
ran up stairs impetuously and knocked at
her husbands door, calling on him to speak
but one word to her. Mrs. Blaine followed
the young woman up stairs and laughed at
her as she knocked at the door. The younger
Mrs. Blaine then went down stairs to her
carriage, weeping bitterly. The party
came back to New York, reaching here
last Thursday night.
This is the story as given to the world by
the confidential friends OF young Mrs Blaine
and her family. Col. Richard Nevlns, Mrs.
Blaine's father, holds clerkship i'll the
office of the commissioners of accounts. Il
reporter found him yesterday at the New
York hotel. He declined to talk about his
daughters trouble, referring the reporter
to her lawyers, MessrS. Mcmahon, Pryor,
and Ingersoll.
Col. Ingersoll could not be found yester-
day. Gen. Pryor said, at his office, IL
Wall street:
~ am willing to tell you just what 1
know of this case in the past, and that is
all can say. About fortnight ago mu-
tual friend OF young Mrs. Blaine and my
self told me the young woman wanted to
consult me professionally about trouble
with her husband. | saw her and advised
her to write to her husband Offering to go
to him and live with him where he wished
She wrote that letter and it was unanswered
Then | advised Mrs Blaine to go to her
husband, taking her baby with her, and to
do everything possible toward smoothing
matters over and effectlng a reconciliation.
/ am told she went to Augusta and did not
see her husband, and that all her overtures
for a reconciliation fell through. That is
all | can say"
Gen. Martin T. Mcmahon, United States
marshal for this district, was il his Office
in the federal building when the reporter
called He said:
"We are gong to begin suit for Mrs.
Blaine against Mr.. and Mrs. James G.
Blaine, Sr., for 100000 for alternating her
husbands affections. Mrs. Blaine's counsel
are Col. Ingersoll, Gen. Pryor and myself.
We have not drawn up the papers yet, and
there is no hurry about the case. We shall
probably sue in The supreme court here, serv-
ing Mr. Blaine with the summons by publ
cation, and making personal service If we
can find him within the borders of the
state. 1t is possible, though, that we may
bring suit III Maine, though we would be
fearful there of Blaine jury. Young
Mrs. Blaine's Maine lawyer is Hon.
William l.. Putnam, the late fisheries com
missioner, and she consulted with him
when she was in Maine last week. | have
known Mrs Blaine since she was little
girl said Cen Mcmahon, warmly land l
tell YOU, sir, she has been shamefully abused.
She is a young woman of sweet aud tender
disposition aud | am certain that1n this
affair she is in the right. In Cincinnati and
Pittsburg and wherever she has been she
has been q social favorite. She loves her
husband now dearly aud would do anything
to straighten out matters again. It's only
another case of mother-in-law."
Another friend of the Nevins family said
that from intimations received from Au-
gusta it was believed that the Blaines, not
reckoning on the religious scruples of Mrs
Blaine the younger, were expecting her to
begin suit against her husband for divorce
1t was believed that James G., Blaine Jr.,
was intending to sail tor Europe at an early