The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-08
||4iSOME TIE BROKEN.
- Deceiver Mudgett's Wife
Gets q Divorce.
r,ausvT WANTS HIS sonDs.
- rnsnss . &c. Cnlewfally held
n,..eeSv Csalsssral-N Qasstlsa
- . ne Cusslag Of Tinbsr.

49, divorces were granted BY Judge
4nooaey Yesterday, al for abandonment
- fhsiure 70 support. One Of the cases,
80 IL Mary Mudgeft against Albert W:
7lo1eest, has history behind It that dio
~ appesr in the plsadings. The COM
sir;at simply states that the coupe were
serzied in Seattle on June Is 1882, bat
90 Immediately after marriage NUGGET
I'D 20 live with his wife, LETT The state
3 - has failed 10 do anything for her sup
erk On this showing the decree was
1Faatsd and the plaintiff may assume ner
0aiden name Of Mary Groves.
The story behind il ali il sensational
80 and was enacted during the early part
u last summer. Mudgstt Vas conductor
q North Seattle electric car. and very
susceptible TO feminine charms. Soon after
this arrival IN Seattle he made the &C
sustnsancs Of Mn. Debble. . widow whom
BE had known in the East Friendship
eoon ripened into tenderer relation and
y became engaged to marry her. until
hnaiIy, within about month OF the day
= Tor his marriage, he became acquainted
ejth Miss Mary Groves. Without 70
lIoquishing his former love he began to
nnke love to Miss Groves with such sue
~ that or May 10 be induced her to
.eleps with him 10 Victoria and get mar.
IA trivately In the meantime Mudgett
coutinued TO press his suit with the
49,. and In about ten days
ens marriage behaved % colby to
Mn Groves that she chided HIM for 1t.
l(udxett then insinuated that she had not
nsosong . hold upon him a. she believed.
uwsusplcions we're aroused BY this and
- discovered thst the ceremony per
1Demed ct Victoria was . sham. A mar
fisee license was obtained, Justice Won
1ohd Was summoned and after . stormy
intsTview, in which revolver in the b. nd
= Miss Groves played m important part,
: tFus marriage took place. and Miss
ososss became Mrs. Mudgett.
Iysn then Mudgett attempted to deceive
Mn Debble, claiming that his marriage
ietiss vas that Of IN entirely different
Nodestt, who had left with his wife for
IN Francisco. At last, however. the two
hiaesd women met and started out TO
naks things pleasant for Mudgett. They
toofded his car u the corner Of Temper
80 street and rode mp and down upon it
asul midnight. keeping Mudgett in .
49, Il sbjsct terror, In momentary ex-
psetation Of an outburst. Nothing serious
eeeurrsd. however, but Mudgett vas
heartily glad when the ordeal was over,
md hastily left the city. Nothing has
dncs been heard Of him, and Il 10 needless
n ed that he did not return yesterday TO
6e6end the suit.
Louise q. Byers and Eliza Lloyd were
: " other two petitioners. and they each
secured divorces from their faithless hus-
baads. Erastus II. Byers and John b.
lloyd, respectively. Failure to support
uas the cause assigned in each case.
1rA Lloyd's case was . particularly
haFd one. She was married In Illinois in
Jaly, 1878. and after coming to the Coast
hps lodging house 1T Roslyn. When
- negroes were imported she sold out
- came to this city. Her husband was
Oployed a. hack driver for . time and
- bought IN interest In grocery store.
u abused her in various Ways and finally
Invent 70 work for well-known people in
I'm, who sympsthiss with her In her
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