The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-10
THAT LOVE AFFAIR
Lieutenant Whites Behavior Will Be
Investigated by the Department.
MISS MABEL HOWE WITH HIM
The Legal WIFE IL In San Francisco
Siok and Heartbroken. and
VIII Apply for q Divorce
at Once.

Tue Dove affa1r ana ciopcffieie "
IAeutenaut wIh5ce of San Francisco ana
pretty Mabel Howe OF The Passing
Snow company has become interest
rnx 20 Butte theater goers. The heu-
yer>nt lett the company after its ap-
pcar,nce IN Butte. and proceeded east
sn advance of dt on orders from the de-
partnent in washington. A few days
ago he was interviewed In Boston and
said: TT has been stated that was
seen IN Oakland Nov. 16 with MISS
Howe but was not IN Oakland wirn
a,er as left San Francisco the day De-
fore. Mrs. White knew of my depart
ure. and also of the circumstances TOT
/ wrote to her from Reno. New. Sne
did not expect to come east, as sne
was sick at the time. wrote her again
from Chicago, telling her OF the STU
alton and my plans
cuss that part of the story which al
legged that he left the coast with MISS
Mabel Howe. except 10 say tnajt 1nsIe
was no Exponent, as UNDERSTOOD on vne
Pacific coast He thought that 1nas
matter would be fully understood IN
time and that there was nothing TO De
said in his behalf concerning 1t now:
At In alleged that when the Ieutenanl
left for Boston Miss Mabel resigned
from The Passing Show and accom-
Washington is going to Investigate une
affair The San Francisco Examiner OF
hast Friday has THE following addition
al Developments
..Mrs. Rena ID. White. the wife OF
qIeu-. Chester N. White, has ordered
91er 9awyer no begin suit for divorce.
The complaint was drawn up last might
and was duly affirmed in the presence
of Police Judge Lowe, who went 70
Mrs. whites room In the Hotter benoA
for tine purpose. Mrs. White as very
angry at the turn events have taken.
The document, which expresses her
opinion OF her husband, is accordingly
.'There Is no mtncing of words In
the complaint The gay heutenamt Is
charged with infidelfty. The aIlega.
tions are both specific and genersal. ana
Uetenant White is charged WIN va,
rious acts committed in Chicago ana
IN Boston. The complaint also alleges
that he Is living with one Mabel oman
ming of Boston
menced last night h 1t had been pos
sble 10 file the papers. There Will
however, be no delay. The complaint
win be placed on record this morning
Mrs. White says that, I'M the event OF q
contest, she will be ready with mel
facts The complaint alleges thaH
Lieutenant White deserted his wife
and wrote a letter from Reno, staalnt
that he had abandoned her and woulc
never see her again. This letter -
curiosity IN ITS way. 1t was written II
Reno and was mailed from Humboldt
Nevada The letter reads as follows
"'Overianid train, en- noute east NOV
16th-My Dear Emma: When you re
ceive this you will, OF course, know
what has occurred 1t had TO be, 70
YOU know perfectly well that Away
loved her and that she was the onl!
one On the world i ever could nav
bowed. 1 TRIED hard TO do my duty b.
YOU but / was not strong enough.
will have a week of the only real nap
piness my miserable life has eve
known, and then the end for both 'sh
and l. / cannot ask forgivness be
cause know full well that 1t rs impos
rsFble Cor such am act as mine But tr
20 think not too hard of me. Good-o
forever, for I will not see you agar
not even beyond the grave.
"swhen / received that letter froI
my husband said Mrs. White, las
night, 4 was here in bed and so sic
that I could not hold up my heae
Perhaps am cold-hearted. but coul
not cry when / got that letter i wa
simply filled with contempt for such
man. Here he had been away for seve
months and returned to find me sicl
He was with me few hours the fir:
day, and saw him again for minui
the next day. and then i did not hes
from him until the following Monda,
when that letter came from Reno.
made up my mind that 1 would kee
still about the letter and about the d.
parture of my husband. l thought
would wait until everything had quie
ed down and then sue for divorce.
decided to-day that would publish Il
letter and get the divorce at once.
changed my mind. because he has
far demeaned himself as to deny thi
he left me. and that he was with thu
girl"
TT was the interview with the fug
tive husband printed in The Examin
chat caused Mrs. White to lose all p
thence. She says that Whites stat
ment Is a tissue OF lies.
HE says that The was not seen WI
Mabel Howe in Oakland on the 18th
November said Mrs. White. Tn
statement Is true and II is about q
only thing IN the whole statement tn
was not false. He was seen in Ga
land on the 18th instead OF the 16t
This setter that / received was dat
the 10th and at that time he must ha
been in Nevada He states that
told me IN his letter all about the sit
alton. and that he let me know that
was going east. SO he did. He also
me know that he was going TO Ia
one week of real happiness and tn
die. He says that he wrote another Il
ter to me from Chicago. do not I
neve II, for have not received such
letter. He says that he was Capts
Healy's friend. and yet / have receiv
letter after letter from him. complal
tng about the captain. He says ~
ne aeft for the East principally becau
Ghe did not want 10 be a witness again
the captain. That Is silly. He left /
the East % be with that chorus girl
Lieutenant White used to talk
me about that girl. both after we w
engaged and after we were MARI
He told me that she lived with him
Boston. That was years ago. He u.
40 get letters from her. and had l
picture here. ] gave him letter fr
her the day that he arrived from
north He said ne would not go 10
her. but knew he would. / said