The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-29
ANOTHER MANS WIEE,
The Nice Pickle in which Bret
Hate's Son Finds Himself,
FIRST CLASS SOCIAL SCANDAL
In New York, in which Mrs, AIlae
Smith and the Famous NoyelIst's
son are Concerned, Brought
Out by u Fathers Demand,

New YoRx, Nov. 2S,-Up in Wes
Elgthyfourth street, a block from the
park, lives handsome blonde woman
aud yesterday she had With her to spent
Thanksgiving her two sunnyIhaired lit
lie boys, But it was probably not very
happy holiday with the occupantso Of the
second fat in the big new Agnes apart
ment house, No. % West Eighty,fourth
street, The filing otcertain legal papers
in court yesterday has brought gloom to
that little household, and the handsome
mother Of two pretty baby boys views
with diSmay the epblazonment Of the
peculiar life she is leading,
A young man, said to be the son Of a
famous novelist, poet and representative
Of this country abroad, also probably
neglected to render thanks to-day, but
will doubtless enjoy himself In denun.
Citations Of another man, whose wife be
has won,
Mrs, Aline B, Smith, wife Of Jay
Smith, 10 the woman, and Francis K.
Harte, son OF Bret Harte, Is the man,
whose Thanksgiving eve was made mis-.
erable by the proceedings In court yes.
terday, which revealed condition OF
domestic ENHANCEMENT not extraordl.
nary by any means, but in some re.
speCts unusual.
The peculiar aspect OF the case is that
while Jay Smith, the despoiled husband,
charges his wife with living with an.
other man and bearing that other mans
name, he does not want q divorce, and
IL willing for her to continue as bis wife
In the eyes Of the law, II she will only
allow him TO have control OF their chill.
dren. She does not want to have any.
thing to do with him and Is content TO
live as she Is with a morganatic rela.
tionship TO young Harte, and she pro.
posed 10 keep her children too.
Joe" Smith married Aline Bouton In
this city February 26, 1873. Ho Is dap.
per young man, with a slight, under.
sized figure, aud she was medium sized,
really handsome girl, with well round.
ed figure, silky yellow hair and big light
blue eyes, fringed with delicately arched
brows and dark lashes.
AS time wore on two children were
born 10 them-Bouton, named after her
father, saddlery merchant here, and
Spencer @. They are now respectively
8 and 0 years old.
Mr.. Smith is still as neat as a new min,
but his trim little figure has lost its
grace OF movement, as he 10 partially
paralyzed In his lower limbs. She Is as
handsome as ever, with an oval face Of
good complexion and smile as bewitch.
Ing as II ever was, even before marital
troubles. quarrels and family fights cast
any shadows upon the horizon OF their
domesticity.
These qlarrelS became so frequent and
bitter that at last the couple agreed TO
separate, and on November IL, 1883,
they signed an agreement In the law Of.
ice Of Mr.. w. H, Boughton. This agree.
ment, however, was to be only tempo.
rary, and the separation which II pro-
Vided Tor was TO expire May |, last.
In the meantime other young men
had come upon the scene, and Mis-,
Smith concluded that she would prefer
to remain away from her husband, who
had been Ill and was left comparative
invalid. She was mot dependent upon
him, as her father had died aud left iner
an income ample enough for comfort.
Lawyers have been consulted time and
again BY both parties, but no reconcilia.
tlOn could be ELECTED.