Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-14
WISHES TO BE FREE
Mrs. Harry Brown Makes APP
plication for a Divorce.
HER ACTION LONG EXPECTED
By Friends ard the Knowing Ones
Harry has Not Lived With Her
lor Nearly Two Years.

Yesterday Eta b. ;. Brown nled
bill OF compliant Ia tie circuit court
against her husband Harry VI. Brown
asking Tor al absolute divorce The
particulars OK the complaint are sup
Pressed but lt = understood from a
s0afce thoroughly trustworthy that
she charges cruelty aud dssertion and
upon these grounds asks that her mar
rage ties DO severed BY the court This
acton Of Mrs. Brown while anticlpa-
Ted by few knosiHg ones will cause
much gossip and society viii have
new riddle With when 70 interest
itself both OF the parties being
very well known In TINS cay.
They We're esistly Married.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown were quietly
married on February D. 1851, scarcely
more than = hall score Of Trends being
aware Of tue nuDitais before hand. IL
caused a sort Of A sociai hatteE &C the
time, as their case IA court vii now.
They have hved Ia luxury anu appar-
ent happ4ness and have travelled ex-
tenAgcly. Mr.. Brown Inherited large
fortune from hs father, was popularity
known as man about town, and WAS
atle 10 provide hIs pretty wife anything
that tickle and changing fancy might
crave. Two years o. more after the
marriage Mr.. Brown went east and pur-
chased . complete stable Of fashion
bic turuOuis. and toe rumbliug Of MS
huge ialiy-hO and four, with hveried
dflver and trumpeter made hiGn known
10 almost every iuhaOitant OF the city.
i ssa a -
nlncence resident on south College ave-
nue.. These successive large eXpendi-
tares OF money created amazement
among the gray boards. Who solemnly
SHOOK their heads with the prediction
that the liberal Young mans fortune
would soon be gone.
Went 10 Europe Alone.
About three years ago Mr.. Brown
made a tour OF Europe, but did not
take his wife with him. TINS excited
sonic comment, but when he returned
ne continued 10 1--we with her and
nothing more was thought OF the mat
ter. Two years ago he began TO make
frequent trips out OF the city, beng
gone month or more at time. When
be would retura here he would take
up ms abode AZ the Morton house, and
ne and MS wife had apparently DIS
agreed. During the past year Mr..
Brown has practically abandoned
Grand Rapids aud has lived at the
Hotel RIcheiieu, Chicago. He disposed
of his fine carriages and English cabs
and other property. and manifested IN
other ways that be had deliberately de-
serted his wife aud home. Mr.. Brown
has always had legion of friends.
Frioads Tried to Reconcile Them
Many Of them have made an effort
TO reconcile him To his wife and home.
The secret az &C. the beginning of the
trouble cannot De known and IS not OF
any concern 10 anyone but themselves.
Mrs. Brown has long been regarded as
one OF the most attractive ladies in
Grand Rapids and numerous friends
indeed Will sympathize with ner in the
very unhappy and unnatural termina-
ton OF ner welded life. She at pres
ent resides with her father. the Hon.
John l.. shaw. VINO purchased the
Brown homestead from her husband a
few months since. Mr.. Brown arrived
IN the city yesterday. but whether his
coming had any connection with the
fling Of the bill cannot be ascertaIned.
An effort was made 10 see Mr.. Brown
sst night, but ne could not be found.