The morning news., 1892-02-22
BLAINE DIVORCE CASE.
zRz szOaT OF TEz COURTSEIP
AND MARRIAGE

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LsT s-d H-z Cr0p11czer Destroy 81
tss Last Eo1e q RECONCILIATION With
Her Husband
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day contained 81 s1cozut q fhs granting e
divorce 81 DszdTood. 5 D., 10 Ms.
JAMS G. Bizios. r. Ths following Is
from t5s SsE York SKA i ksr ssory q bsr
oourtx1ip sn1 marriage:
Tie cozrtsaip vas : s1ort o1e. They
r1ss n Augusta. Ne. sod fsE Tesss Isser
became sugsEsd Tbs agreement was that
they we're not % bs nz-rlsd for four years,
CT Until Mis- NEVIS hst fulsllsd bsr
theatrical coot-act With Nine. Hodtsszs
ard Daniel Frohmsu and Mr.. Blaine had
completed his collegiate oours=. TIE
I hoSeyars co7el1cs1 be did, not
Eaas Mss EsTi1s 70 sppesr on
I tie stage, and pe-sua1sd bs- 20 & hzsty and
secret marriage. TIE di5c1lsT ths, sbe
I was Catholic and be z Protestant vas
overcome By = cispsnsatioR from Arch
[ olsoop COrlgaD, aad ths marriage took
place n the Tes-ibuls Cf S.. LsJ's church.
eating. The yOung couple started the
same Afternoon for Boston, arriving thers
I next morning. Young Blaine left his bride
I and went % Augusta 20 inform bis Parents
% bis marriage. Mrs Blaine returned %
| New York. 4 few days later shs received
= letter from her husband stating that bis
| parents objected s--snuO1siy % the
match and intimatinz that be would
have % give her up. The letter Frustrated
| her snd sne was III til the recsiU. Of second
letter, GpologiZiDg for the first. and stating
that sincs hls father had become acquainted
with eli the circumstances Of their trip 70
| Boston be edTissd his s0a % return 70 his
bride. The husband followed tbs letter in
day CT two and the couple went to live at
! tie New York hotsl On SineJseath strees,
| New YORK, and sfterware Ia PittsburR
/ where young Blaine was reporter for
| daily paper. There was q little more than
q year Of bliss, their croTning happiness
being the birth ot a son fifteen months after
the marriage.
In August, 1888, Mrs. Blaine accompanied
| her husband On visit % his parents in Au-
| gosts, Ne, AMI from this time her troubles
] dated. Arriving in Augusta she found that
the children Of Mrs. Coppinger, then visit
! ing the blaines, were down with whooDiag
cough, and il was necessary for her 70
send Der maid and babe 20 hotel, while
| herself end husband went 70 the parental
mansion. This was the first Of a succession
| OF disaRreeabls incidents A state campaign
was 10 progress in Maine and her husband
Constantly accompanied his father 10 vari-
| Gus places, where the senior Blaine was
making speeches. Whenever he was
| absent the mother-in-Iaw made it usr-
ticulariy hard for her. At length she
told her husband, as he was about leaving
on Friday. that if be did not return the
| next day she would be absent when be did
cOme back. Tue baby was then i'll, and that
night came near dying. She was anxious
| 20 communicate with her husband, but was
| unable because her nOther-in-law refused
20 tell his address, aud when she learned this
later the telegraph operator refused 70 send
the message until it was paid for, and she
had NJ money. Her physician advised that
/ for the baby's health she return 70 New
| York Immediately and she did 80, not
withstanding her mother-in-law said:
If you go | Dever want 70 see you again.
will make you rue it the longest day you
| live" She concluded by saying: "pll keep
my son with me. In one-half hour, il l
choose, can take the young man from
| you The young wife replied: "If he is
that weak he is not worth my love-" That
night Mrs. Blaine left for New York, leav-
| ing most affectionate note for her hus-
band, telling him she left Augusta. not
| him; that whenever he returned her arms
| would be open 10 receive him. He never
returned. After she had reached New
! Y ork she was taken ILL Debts began TO
press The landlord of the Fifty-first street
house, in which they had kept house,
wanted his rent, and tradesmen were clam
orOus for their pay. Finally Mrs. Blaine,
not even receiving reply TO the numerous
letters in which she entreated him TO come
to her. and he failing TO contribute at oil
to support, everything IN the house was
| sold and she returned 70 her parents at the
New York hotel. Meanwhile friends had
assisted her, among them Mrs Kendall,
Mrs. Ogden Doremus and Mrs. Charles
Avery Doremus. Shortly after returning
| TO the New York hotel she fell ILL.,
ssAfter months OF waiting in expectation
Of her husbands return-months during
| which, though she frequently implored him
to come back, she had heard not q word
from him-acting under the advice of Gen,
Mcmahon and Gen. Roger A. Pryor, she
went once more TO Augusta This visit was
induced by a letter from James G.. Blaine.
Sr., to Col. InRersoll, in which Mr. Blaine
conveyed the idee that he thought the wife
had deserted her husband. Accompanied
by her mother she went to Augusta, AMI
in driving from the depot TO the family
home saw her husband standing in front
of the hotel When she reached the
front he eutered the back, aud was at once
pounced on by his mother. who led him to
an upstairs bedroom and locked him in,
refusing 10 allow her to see, speak to- or
confer with him by messenger. Sub
seqUently, this mOther-In-law smuggled
him out Of the house and to the railroad
station at Gardner, where it was proposed
he should take the train for Portland and
sail for Europa. Mrs. Blaine learned of tais.
and left by the same train. At Gardner,
however, Mrs. Coppinger intercepted her
brother, and destroyed the last chance for
reconciliation between husband and wife.
After this she again wrote two letters to
her husband, registering one to make sure
that he gotit. The return card showed it was
receipted for by Walker Blaine. She ever
heard from her husband. She was in re
straits financially, and. applying to Daniel
Frohman, she made contract with him by
which she was to go on the stage under his
management and receive $3.50 or $500
per week, she did not remem Der
which, and 45 per cent. of the net
receipts for her services while pre-
pairing for her debut. She was also
to receive a stated amount for
expenses. She worked five months prepar-
ing for the stage, when she was taken i'll
with infammatory rheumatism, which con-
fined her TO Der bed for ten months, and
left her a cripple for life. During all those
months Of illness there was not word of
sympathy from the husband or from one
member of his family
The witness testified there had besn
opened TO her way to earn q livelihood
with her pen; that she could find a good
market for all her writings, and that one