The San Francisco call., 1895-12-01
Sensational Charges Made by
Fred Adams Against His
Wife.
TELLS OF HER PAST CAREER
The Complaint Filed by Senator Per
kins' Young Relative Who Wants
a Divorce.

ellSue Wnen DOylSh Fred ADAMS, relative
OF Senator George G. Perkins. should ask
to be- freed from his wife. The papers,
which were filed late Friday afternoon.
contain many things which were hardly
expected.
The complaint is filled with startling
assertions. from beginning to end. Mrs.
Adams is charged with having wooed her
youthful husband in a cyclonic style. and
actually forced him to marry her. She is
not charged with leading "dual" life;
that adjective is only half strong enough
to express the feelings of Mr.. Adams at
torneys, who use the word "quadruple"
instead.
The complaint alleges that the plaintiff,
Fred Stuart Adams, was only 20 years old
October 3, 1895, and that his marriage to
the defendant July 30 1895. was procured
by fraud on the part of Mrs. Adams. 1t
recltes that Fred Adams when II years old
received an injury that confined him to
the house for three and half years and
disabled him for five years from attending
school or engaging in healthful exercise.
BY reason OF this his mental as well as his
physical growth was retarded, and, al
though almost man in years, he is prac-
mental development and the ordinary eX-
periences of life
''In this condition. the complaint pro-
| ceeds, 'the defendant, who is by several
years his senior in age, is also highly
educated and skilled In all the arts of
fascination, and who has had wider and
more varied experience than falls to the
| lot OF many women, sought and secured
an introduction to the plaintiff June 80,
1895. Plaintiff AYERS that she was at the
time fully informed in regard to the plain
tiff, and as to his condition and prospects
in life"
Young Mr. Adams says that the lady ap-
peared to have fallen in love with him at
first sight. For the next thirty days, he
declares, she followed him persistently.
She induced him TO take her out very
frequently riding, declaring that she could
not live without him, and giving him
pretended history of her own life. In this
history she pretended to be pure and
chaste woman, who had been educated
and lived nearly all her life in convent
in st. Louis Mo. After leaving the con-
vent she said she had made an unfor-
tunate marriage with one Charles Day or
Clarence Day, from whom she was about
to seek q divorce when he died and left
her widow.
During this period OF time the plaintiff
was without money to pay the expenses
incurred by these rides dinners, wines,
ETC., and dared not and did not call upon
the executor or his family or friends there
for. He frequently protested against them
because of his inability to pay such ex
penses. The plaintiff, however, always
scoffed at such an excuse, saying that she
had regular income and she would FUR
nish the money. She did provide him
with money for their expenses, and some
times when short of ready money handed
him articles of jewelry and of costly cloth
ing and directed him to pawn the same for
the necessary funds. This he did by her
direction, returning to her the money and
the pawn tickets. She would then supply
him with the money to pay their expenses
out of the funds so raised.
This rapid style of wooing led up to
Adams promising to marry his fair COM
panion. He, it is claimed in the COM
plant, held back, urging his extreme
youth, inexpe,rrienee and inability, to sup
port a wife. The defendant then declared,
according to Mr.. Adams that she was not
seeking support, but that her love made
her wildly desirous of an immediate mar
rage.
"She had already made inquiry and
knew just how and where it could be
DONE" the complaint continues "She
charged him with cowardce for hesitat-
ing, and finally handed HIM her sealskin
of their trip, and on the 30th of July, 1895,
prevailed upon him to go with her to
Martinez, where the ceremony of marriage
was performed. Immediately after the
marriage the plaintiff remained away from
his home for a few days, spending his
time with the defendant and stopping at
hotels in San Francisco under assumed
names. During this time she took plaint-
if 10 places of which he never before had
any knowledge, but of such character
that the surroundings and her familiarity
Herewith and with the inmates and visit
ors thereat for the first time excited the
suspicious of plaintiff that defendant was
not the pure and chaste woman she had
represented herself and led the plaintiff
to believe her to be.
After few days OF this kind of life
defendant advised plaintiff to return TO
his home and remain there until he should
become of age and the estate of his father
should be distributed and he should re-
ceive his distributive share. She enjoned
him to keep the marriage secret and said
that she would do the same, and that she
had ample means with which to support
herself in the meantime and would do so.
"Thereupon plaintiff returned to the
home of his family. He and the said de-
| fendant have never lived together as hus-
band ana wife and there has never been
any mutual assumption of marital rights,
duties or Obligations"
The plaintiff proceeds to detail as fol-
| lows the circumstances OF the defendants s
life as his detectives discovered them:
AT the age of about 16 years the defend
ant left the conyent at which she had been
educated at Tacoma and almost Imme-
diately entered upon life OF dissipation
at Seattle. Since then she has led qua
druple life in Seattle, Tacoma and other
cities and towns in Washington.
In 1892 the defendant took trip East
and was absent for some time. During
such absence. as plaintiff is informed and
believes, she was married to one Charles
or Clarence Day (called by her Doctor
Day). In 1893 she returned to Tacoma.
In the latter part Of December, 1893, she
removed to San Francisco, where she took
rooms in respectable lodging-house un-
der the name of Mrs. N. Day, and IN few
days was joined by her husband, Charles
Day or Clarence Day.
"They continued to live and lodge to-
gether until about the Goth day OF. Feb
ruary, 1894, when he left her and went
East. whence he communicated with
her by mail and telegraph for some months
after. After time she retired to con-
vent at San Rafael, CAL, where she lived
for some time as a parlor boarder
From this convent she took up her
residence and entered society in Oakland,
and very soon sought and procured an In