The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-07-12
WHY MARIE DIDN'T GET 1T.
Beautiful Actress Couldn't Prove Enough
get a Divorce.

San Francisco, July 11-Judge Trout
has denied the application of Marie Bur
rOughs, the actress, for divorce from
her husband, Louis Massen. Miss Bur-
rOughs alleged infidelty as the reason
for her suit, but the judge decided that
she had not produced enough evidence.
Miss Burroughs submitted an affidavit
in which she tells the story OF her
wrongs and throws light on the ques-
tion of her husbands citizenship. Ac-
cording TO the deposition, Mr.. Massen
was born in Paris, France. He never
became citizen of the United States
In fact, he had certain feeling of hos
tility against America, which he was
not backward in expressing. That he
is an alien is now established beyond
a doubt. This brings up a nice point
of law, whether a divorce can be grant
ed when one Of the parties is an alien.
According to the view of Massen,
which is presented, he is evidently
man of very gay habits. In the COM
plant which Miss Burroughs filed she
charged him with adultery with Dolly
Moore in Cincinnati and also with
woman in Buffalo whose name she does
not know. In the latest deposition
which she made in Boston she adds an
other gallantry to the list and attaches
some Of the notes which she says Mass
en- received from this Boston woman.
Miss Burroughs accidentally found the
notes in a trunk some time ago. She
states that the rendezvous of the two
was at a place in Boston known as the
Tavern. The first letter submitted
from the Boston woman to Massen read
as follows:
Darling Lou: Since writing this
morning / have decided to go out to
my brothers to be gone until tomorrow
and You know l have an engagement
for tomorrow evening and Thursday
with my darling sweetheart. L am feel
ing lame. Where did 1 get my black
and blue spots? Knew you We're going
To ball game. or l would have run
down TO Tavern and had a little visit
with you This afternoon.
only wish ] were with you this min
ute. Don't diSappoint me. Thursday
evening. for | must see You then. Just
think. TWO whole days before that
time. Until then, with words of love,
your MABEL
In reply to the question when. where
and from whom did you receive the
first intimation of your husbands inf
delity?" Miss Burroughs made the fol-
lowing answer.
About June 1892. at Edgartown,
Mass, from Lillian King. of that place
l received the first intimation OF my
husbands :, Mr.. Massen's infidelitv. She
told me in substance that he was un-
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certain woman. and that this woman
was openly boasting that he was her
lover. Later. namely the last of May,
or the first of June. 1894. in goingsto a
theatrical trunk for a business paper.
l found three letters addressed to him.
one by mail and the others apparently
delivered by messenger. which CON
flrmed the belief that | had for two
years When Mrs. King told me the
story. which l was compelled 10 believe
l had no further relations nor inter
course with him. | took a separate
room and he was not allowed and did
not enter this room. l said 10 him.
inSubStance, that he must know the
reason why His own conscience would
tell him why / took the course that
l was taking, and he neither admitted
nor denied my accusation, but permit
ted me without further questioning
10 live in this way ever afterward.