The evening times., 1896-09-24
HUSBAND AND WIFE APART:
j. H. Wardle Says Pliny N.
H0ugh Destroyed His Home.
DENIAL OF HER FRIENDS
Surprise Occasioned by the Divorce
suit Brought by the Former Chief
Clerk of the Census Burean-Ihe
Wife Claims She Has Been Cruelty
Treated, Neglected and Deceived.

james II. Wardle, formerly assistant
CHIEF clerk or tie Census Bureau, and now
an Inspector in the Postoffoe department,
has sued his wife, Mrs. Marianna War
| die, for divorce.
| The sensational part of tie proceeding is
that Pliny NJ. Hugh is named as Gre
| spondent, aud adultery is the charge
1his Is complete surprise To Ike
| friends or all parties. Even TO the ae-
| quaiiitances OF AR. Mardle 1t is astonishing
| II has been known that Tor some time ,if
| and Mrs. Wardlc have not lived together.
The latter is regarded as an Invalid, and
| was frequently confined to her room
Mfr. and Mrs. Wardic lived at No. 1875
Ninth street up to last ApIiI, when the
wile went to New York. Her friends say
she did this because OF certain actions
OF her husband, while the latter contends
that he has not lived with her since then
because Of her alleged Conduct with Mr..
Hough.
The last heard from Mrs. Wardle She
was still in New York. The hone here
was broken up, and Mr.. WaIdle himself
went to Brooklyn. Since then Mr.. Rough,
who was in the real estate business with
MI Alfred Wilson, at No. 623 L street,
lissolved partnership, and selling out all
his effects here went to live with his
mother, at No. 14Oi Myrtle avenue, Eat
ti,Eore.
He has been gone about two months, and
at the time OF his departure gave III health
IA the reason Tor leaving the city.
THEIR THREE CHILDREN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wardle have three children.
and il is presumed that Mr. WaTdIc asks
their custody. Mr. Chaplin Brown is the Eus
Ddnd S attorney, and when he filed the suit
Withheld the papers from publication. The
rlCVs IN the case are, however, Tully known
to the friends OF both Mr.. and Mrs. Wardlc
and also acquainta nces OF Mr. Huugh.
Mrs. Warule denies, through her iIiends,
the charges III toto and c!airis that she
can utterly dispFove uIen. She Will re-
turn Immediately and file u ciCss ILL for
divorce. charging her hC.t and with cruel
treatment and adultery.
Ii Is claimed by Mrs WardIc's friends that
Mr.. Warde hasrorthe past ten years treated
his wife with systematic cruelty; that lie
has failed time and gain TO provide for her,
aud that he has gone about with other
women, remain lining away from his home for
months at i time.
MRS. WARDLE'S SIDE.
At times it is said. il has been necessary
Tor Mrs Wardles friends to come 10
her assistance with the very necessities Gt
lIte with which her hus sba nd TailcdtO supply
her.
ALI this, It is Mrs. Wardle's content lon,
has been done with the deliberate inI-n-
ton OF degrading her to the point where She
Would apply for a Seraiat!ou. They say
Mrs. Wardie, for the sake Ur her children,
one boy OF thirteen and two girls OF "leven
aud fifteen, has patiently stoud the worst
OF her husbands insults ard neglect rather
than give her iseTy 10 The publicity II
the police courts.
II Is further claimed that, tired OF wait
ing for his wife To enter suit on her side.
Mr.. Wartle has now decided Ia procure Il
divorce himself, and has trumped up the
charge for the purpose.
Byth tie time for entering the suit and
the correspondent the friends of tie wife
say. are well chosen. Neither Mrs WardIe
nor Mr. Hough is in town-
Mr.. Wardie until today has been out II
town on one of his regular trips as post
office inspector. He refused, when seen to-
day, TO say anything about the matter.