The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-23
SUING FOR DAMAGES,
A Sensational DOuble- Barreled
Divorce Suit.
BRENNAN'S ANSWER TO DEYOY
Sunday School Superintendent and a
Heather Chinee-The Detained Pilgrim
will Sleep Himself to Death.
Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch

| Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
| CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-An extraordinary
double-b arreled divorce story came to the
surface to-day, when Judge Bum and a
jury in the United States circuit court
began the trial of the case of Waldron
against Waldron. Mrs. Mary Waldron
sues for 100000 damages, against Mrs.
Josephine X. w aldron, for aleniating from
her the affections of her husband, Edwin
T. Waldron. The fascinator, Mrs Jose
phine Waldron, is the widow of E. s.
Alexander, the wealthy dealer in railroad
| supplies, and resides on aristocratic Mich
gan avenue. Edwin P. Waldron, now her
husband but formerly the husband of the
plaintiff Mrs. Mary Waldron, began as a
brakeman, and worked his way up to be
vice president and general manager of the
Ohio & Missouri railroad, and consequently
held the same positions on the Lake Erie
" Western road. Mrs. Mary Waldron was
married to Edwin p. Waldron in 1856, and
one child, boy, was born to them. They
lived in Lafayette, Indiana, where the
plaintiff resides. There was
LONG AND INTIMATE ACQUAINTANCE
Waldron, and their families had visited
back and forth. Mrs. Mary Waldron, the
plaintiff, had been more than once to Mrs.
Alexander's house. E. S. Alexander died
in February, 1886, and Waldron went to
Chicago several times and visited the
widow, who, 1t is claimed, received his at
lions, well knowing he was a married
man, and that he had wife and child at
home; that he was the husband of the wife
and the father Of the child.
In June, 1886, Waldron left his wife and
came to Chicago and took rooms, substan-
TALLY abandoning his wife and abandoning
his home. Immediately after his arrival.
it is claimed by the plaintiff, he began an
intimacy with the defendant, driving with
her, calling upon her at her house, and
passing night after night there. At the
same time ne cut off the supplies from his
wife,
REFUSED TO PAY HER BILLS
| and gave notice to the tradesman not to
trust her on his account The result was
she left in reduced circumstances About
this time her friends began to advise her
| to sue for divorce She claims the sup
gestions came through Waldron and the
steps were taken with the knowledge of
both parties, for the purpose of sundering
the old ties and forming new connections
The plaintiff came to Chicago twice to look
for reconciliation. Her first visit was in
1886 and received no satisfaction. She
came again in March, 1887, without anv
results. She called on defendant and said:
u have come to see you, to ask you to
withdraw your influence from my husband.
We have lived together for almost quarter
OF century. He is the father of nv bow.
We have climbed the hill of life together
and only you stand in the way of our de-
scending it together. You have only to lift
your hand and say return, and my husband
Will come back to me.n Instead of having
her husband restored to her, Mrs Waldron,
the plaintiff, was ordered from the parlor
at 2O2S Michigan avenue. Heartbroken,
SHE SOUGHT DIVORCE,
all the details of which were it is claimed.
managed by WaldrOn who furnished the
money to pay all the expenses and attor-
neysifees. The plaintiff filed a complaint
in which it was alleged that Edwin P. Wal
dron had cruelty abandoned her and that
Josephine p. Alexander had enticed him
from the plaintiffs home.
The divorce was granted in June, 1887.
and the defendant, Josephine Waldron, con-
sented to be led to the altar in the follow
ing October by Mr.. Waldron The claim
of the defense is that Waldrou was de-
ceived by his first wife and did not discover
1t until they had been married for nearly
twenty one years. Then he was informed
that Mrs. Waldron had been divorced from
former husband before he married her,
and that the child which he supposed was
his, belonged to some one else When he
found this out he left her. Mrs. Josephine
Waldron, for her part, denies the allega-
tions of the plaintiff. To-nighta Jury was
secured and it is expected the trial viii last
a fortnight Sensational developments are
expected