Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-04
DIV0RCEMADEEASY
SIOUX FALLS, DAKOTA, COURTS WILL SEYBR
Tas TIE WHILE YOU WAIT.
: Big Colony Of Unhapply Married Ones Settled in
That Plaes-Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., One
Of the Nat Prcmiusnt BpplcanIs-Ths
Case Of Nine De Stuers.

Sioux Falls awaiting action for divorce
or acquiring the necessary residence be-
fore action can be begun. One firm of
attorneys has twelve cases in which
complaints will be filed during the next
two months.
The most reputable firms of the city
are declining the cases and advising
New York attorneys hot to let their eli
ents come here, as by the conflict be-
tween the law of South Dakota and that
of New York the successful plaintiff in
q divorce suit here when the defendant
has failed to make an appearance in the
case becomes q bigamist II he or she re-
marrleS in New York State, while the
defendant, if woman, retains all OF
her dover and property rights in the es-
tate of the plaintiff.
The leaders Of the divorce colony here
are Mrs. James G.. Blaine, Jr., and
Nine. De StuerS. The action for divorce
has not been commenced in the case OF
either. The two are still counting the
ninety days of residence before papers
can be legally filed.
Mrs Blaine had a suite Of two rooms
az the Cataract. She has just returned
from a visit TO New York and Is in poor
health. Owing 10 fall received from
her carriage while in New York she is
cripple, aud when she walks at all 1t
Is with crutcheS. She has not been out
Of her room since her return. 1t is
somewhat difficult to approach her.
Her local counsel is ex-Judge Palmer,
and he is supported in New York by ex-
Governor HOadly, De Lancey Nicoll,
Judge Pryor and Colonel Ingersoll.
MRS. BLAINE TALKS.
Judge Palmer said frankly that Mrs.
Blaine has been cautioned TO decline in
terviews. Nevertheless l was admitted
to her presence after some trouble. She
could not raise herself from her chair,
but held out a very thin and while
hand 20 be touched.
s'It is too bad" she began" that
You are out here TO stir up all OF those
who are trying 10 get out OF trouble.
Are they not unhappy enough?
''You ought to be more merciful. l
cannot see what you can wish Of me.
am only a poor cripple, seeking my free
dom. Surely nothing in that can In
terest the public.
Il have no feeling in my case against
the Blaine family. I have nothing to
tell you. Come, now, tell me how many
people have you found here who are
seeking divorces.
.'What, one hundred and three! Now,
can't you let these poor people alone?
III you must have somebody TO write up,
take me. Ii is too bad that they can
not have peace"
SHE WAS AN AsTOR.
After Mrs. Blaine comes Nine. De
Stuers as an object OF interest. She
and her escort or masculine chaperOne,
BIr. William Elliott, have a suite OF five
rooms at me Cataract. At present the
couple are at Spirit Lake, Iowa, enjoy
fIg q seusJu ,'s-osvirrrs. ,, IA s..~-
De Stuers is an Aston, her mother be-
ing Aida Aston, sister Of John Jacob
Aston, who married John Carey, an
Englishman. Her daughter, Nine. De
Stuers, is the wife Of Baron De Stuers,
OF the Belgian Embassy at Paris. She
came 10 Sioux Falls about two months
ago for the purpose Of living out the
ninety days before her suit for divorce
can begin.
0AU was 4NNNAAA FeAAANN WNoN - q 80
tleman who has given his name as Will
liam Elliott, but who is believed to be
Elliott ZbOrOwSki, of New York City.
At the Court House file No. 3,S12 is
the divorce of Thomas Turner VS.. Hen
rietta Turner. Mrs. Turner resides at
$50 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. Mr..
Turner was until lately wealthy furni
ture dealer at Yonkers. n. y. The suit
was commenced May II and on June 20
Mrs. Turner fled her answer, by attor
ney, making protest against the grant
ing Of the decree Of divorce and alleg
ing that her husband was taking advan-
tage of the law TO secure a divorce by
fraud. In May Mr.. Turner visited
Sioux Falls. He stopped at the Cataract
two nights and rented an office in the
city. He remained in the city and Da
kota two days, when he went back TO
New York. Later he returned, re-
manned one day, and on that day made
affidavit in his case that he had been a
resident Of South Dakota in good faith
for ninety days. Then he returned East
again. His actual residence in the State
has not been four days.
ABANDONED BY TURNER.
In her answer TO the complaint Mrs.
Turner brings in the deposition OF Peter
s. Buchanan. of Brooklyn, who SwearS
that she has been abandoned by Turner,
and that Turner had sent his son,
Thomas j. Turner, TO his mother to
offer her a large sum OF money II the
divorce was not contested. This is
sworn to before Frank Z. McElroy, a
notary public Of Kings county. Mrs
Turner SwearS in her answer that her
husband has been unduly intimate with
one Annie Craig.
This case, which is soon TO be tried,
is fair illustration Of how the Dakota
law is used by some.
Young Mr.. Edward E. Pollock, son
of the New York ship supplies mer-
chant. and a member of the Manhattan
Athletic Club, has his rooms at the
Leyeridge block. He has completed
his necessary term of residence, and
his case will shortly be called, although
uapers have not vet been filed. Mr..
l,oilock admits quite frankly that he is
ont here for a divorce, and that he is
having q Jolly time. Everybody knows
him, and il is the general opinion that
his marriage, of which the circum-
stances are carefully concealed, was
part Of g young man folly, and that,
having taken his medicine with good
grace, a divorce should be granted him.
There Is to be no contest in his case
barring the probability that Judge Al
ken may couple him with the other
prominent ones, and on the ground of
fraudulent residence" deny his appli-
cation.
EDGERLY's DIVORCE.
One OF the cases in which there has