The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-27
CREATED A SENSATION.
Another Divorce Case That VIII
Stir Up Certain Members OF the
Four Hundred.

Philadelphia, Nov. 2b.-The news that
Mrs. j. Edward Addicks has begun
suit for divorce from her husband will
undoubtedly create a sensation in So
cial as well as business circles in New
York, Boston and Newport, where both
were well known. The utmost secrecy
has been observed by the attorneys
representing the wife and very little
can be learned as to the nature of tbs
allegations contained in the libel
which was filed in court in Whining
ton, Del, more than two months ago,
and impounded. The news would not
have become public today were it not
for the fact that the court rules re-
quire that service should be made and
notice in court by the last Monday In
November.
Summons to answer the charges
were, therefore, served upon Mr.. Ad-
dicks on Saturday and he acknow-
! being filed today.
: Mr.. Addieks was found at the Union
League this afternoon by a reporter. ef
the Associated Press, VINO showed Kim
the dispatch from Wilmington, con-
tanning the news that suit had pecn
filed. In response to a question he
said
THE charges are entirely false: a
trial of the case viii demonstrate this.
That is all 1 have to say
Mr.. and Mrs. Addicks were married
| in this city in 1869, the bride being =
daughter of the late Washington
Butcher, one of the best known mer-
chants in Philadelphia. They have
OnUp1> had f.'1iIdr.pD Ir IL
, dicks mas a daughter by former
| wife, who was the sister OF the pre- s.
ert Mrs Addicks. The daughter, u. no
is very fond of her stepmother is said
to favor the latter in the present con-
troyerSy.
Although living most of he time in
different parts or the country, M. Adj
dicks has for eighteen years claimed
Claymont, Del, a small town just over
the Pennsylvania Ene, about ten miles
north Of Wilmington, rs his home, AMI
has voted there. He has, however, al
ways lived a portion of each year at
his country seat at Claymcmt. Adjoin-
ing the Addicks place is the magnif-
cent e.5ate of Mrs. Ira. c.. Wilson, VINO
is named by Mrs. A6d;clls as the CO.
respondent in the case. Mrs. Wilson,
who is said to be a talented flscinat-
Ing. woman Of 40 or 40, once a leader in
society, is the widow of Joseph b. Will
son, later d prominent man III De-a-
ware affairs, who died in 1880. The Adj
dicks ana Wilson families, living on
adjoining estates, naturally became in
innate and it was this intimacy that
caused Mrs. Addicks to leave her hus-
band
Mrs. Wilson'S place, to which she
gives the romantic name of Mirahores,
is describes as being a handsome house,
with every modern Improvement. TIE
stable is we'll stocked with fine car
riages and a number of driving and
saddle horses.
The libel filed by Mrs. Addicks alleges
tha; Mrs. Wilson'S establishment is
maintained at the expense of Mr.. Ad-
dicks, and that he had for years spent
much of his time in the company of
Mrs Wilson, neglecting his wife and
finally, by his conduct, compelling her
to leave him. The divorce case will be
referred to a commissioner who will
take testimony in private, and until ne
files his report in court, it is not Likely
chat much will be known OF the al
legations of Mrs Addicls and the tes-
timony she has to support them.
Mrs Addicks and her stepdaughter
Florence. a young woman OF 70, nave
been in Europe for the past year. They
were in this city on Saturday, the day
on which the libel was filed, and visit
ed the Gables, their former home. 1t is
said they are now in Philadelphia, but
their address cannot be learned to-
night The gossips have been whisper
ing about the case for many months,
and it has been repeated that it was
merely a question of time, but -he I!ro-
ceedings were conducted so quietly
that everyone was taken by surprise
when the facts became known today
that definite steps had actually been
taken Now that the case has become
public property, it is recalled that
much comment was current about Mr.
Addicks' domestic affairs about the
time that Mrs. Addicks went to Eu-
rope, and some of the most intimate
friends of the family assert, even, that
thee ouple had separated permanently
1t is now asserted that since Mrs. Adj
dicks departure for Europe, her hus-
band has spent so much of his time ar
Mirafores as to set all the tongues in
the neighborhood wagging. 1t is fur
ther asserted that he kept pair of
handsome thoroughbreds in Mrs. Will
sons stable. and that she frequently
drove him to and from the railway sta
ton when ne visited this place.