Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-01


gun by Lillian Allen Reynolds, through
Howe & Hummal. for an annulment OF
her marriage to Guy H. Reynolds.
Mrs. Reynolds IS twenty-six years old
and is the daughter Of Police Sergeant
Allen. the old "Adonis of the force"
who disappeared from his home one
day five or six years ago and has never
been heard Of since.
She says that TWO summers before her
father disappeared she and her mother
and sister left the.c home at No. AZ -.
Marks pace and took board at the Em-
pire Hotel. Saratoga. This was IN 1887.
Lillian was then seventeen years Ole.
She was introduced to Guy Reynolds,
who at hat time was living in his fam
. .ly homestead. in Rutland, Vernon. lie
was ,wGnty-eight and exceedingly hand
some He said that his mother was
Mrs. Fl.rweDter's sister. He was de-
voted sutton for the hand Of Miss Allen,
and. she says. represented himself TO
. her as a single man.
/ In the spring of 1883 he proposed that
they marry secretly. After much per-
suasion She consented. They were
united on May 81 by Rev Charles Sid
nev Dudley. of Eagel5r.dge. who had a
charge. in Amsterdam. The witnesses
were Mrs. Alderman and Mrs Amelia J.
Cornell. both of Saratoga. The former
is dead and the latter has written her
/ affidavit on the back Of Reyno.d' pn0-
! tograph. He was married under t1e
name OF Guy Stark. and the photograph
is The thing depended upon 10 identity
/ him as Stark The Rev. Mr.. Dudley
/ has disappeared.
No. until TWO years later. in the sum-
| mer of 1899, did Lillian acQua,nt her
mother with the fact Of her marriage.
/ The family lived at that time a. No. l51
| East F.fdeth street. After that the
/ Young people lived together as husband
and VIE in s.. Louis, at the Windsor
and Imperial Hotels in this city, in Ner-
II1an. Conn. where Reynolds was eng3S-
/ al fin the ONYX manufacturing business
( and I'm the Prospect Park Hotel in the
/ Katsk.Ts.
/ In some of these places they were reg
/ is.ered as MI and Mrs. Stack, in others
a. NJ. and Mrs. REYNOLDS and IN others
as Nr. and Mrs. Earle.
REYNOLDS explained 20 his wife that
the reason he did not want their mar
rage made public - because his
wealthy relatives would object and cut
him off without penny. Four children
were born 10 the couple, the plaintiff
claims. all of which a~e desd.
Mrs Reynolds admits that two years
ago She discovered thar her husband had
previously been married At that time
he went back to his first wife because
her mother had left her a fortune, and
iJ was in This manner that she discover
cd how she had been duped.
Mrs. REYNOLDS did not leave Reynolds,
hawever. until seven months ago. wheD
his father became tired of supplying him
with money for his numerous business
failures. He found himself unable to
support himself. let alone her. and had
/ to leave her. She claims that Reynolds,
although almost penniless now. is the
principal her 10 the famous Fair
weather millions, or will be after the
death Of his parents. who now I've at
No. II East Fifty-seven-h street.
Lawyer William Bake, attorney for
I REYNOLDS. puts in a genera denial. His
client he says. has been in the country
for some time and knows Of no suit
against him.
He declares that Mr.. Reynolds has
| never been married 10 Miss Alien, bu-
for tire past twelve years. has been liv-
ing happily with his real VIE, Pauline,
AID that they have a son eleven years
cd. He ridicules the .dea ,hat Mr..
! Reynolds ever had any other child than
the boy, and says very emphaJlcally
chat the whole thing is Matchmaking
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