The San Francisco call., 1896-04-19
Fred Stuart Adams Wife Denies
She Beguiled Him to
Wedlock.
A VERY KNOWING YOUNG MAN
The Youthful Bridegroom Declared to
Have Liberal Education in
Worldly Ways.

Potter, Still otherwise known as j. Isabelle
Potter, and now calling herself Mrs. Fred
| Stuart Adams" filed an answer with the
| County Clerk of Alameda County yester-
day to the suit brought for annulment OF
marriage by James c. Adams for Fred
Stuart Adams, minor. The answer is a
decidedly aggressive document. The de-
fendant, by her attorneys, A. Heynemann
ana A. A. Moore, has not hesitated in
making denials as sweeping as were the
charges in the complaint and in Gaping
the whole with specific counter charges of
marital INCONSISTENCY on the part of the
| plaintiff, Fred Stuart Adams.
| The defendant finds cause for denial in
the very outset of the complaint. She
says she never has been known as Mrs. N.
Day. j. Isabelle Potter she declares is her
maiden name and "Nita'' is a pet name
| given her by her family. The only evil
dence she claims to have of the majority
of the plaintiff is that she heard him
make oath to the statement that he was 81
years of age on or before July 80, 1895.
On that date the parties to this action mar
ried in Contra Costa County. Whether
this was with the consent of Fred's grand
mother or any of his brothers Nita does
whether these parties then had control of
her bethrothed's person. She does know,
however, that there was no fraud on her
| part in the transaction.
| Mrs. Adams does not put much faith in
her husbands physical and mental
weakness. The allegations of the COM
plant that Fred had, when about II years
of age, received an injury which resulted
| in his being much confined and in retard-
ing his physical and mental growth, she
| emphatically denies. She admits that he
was prevented from attending school for
few months, but declares that he has at
tended various schools and colleges in
| California, and is more than ordinarily in
telligent; is fully alive to all the affairs of
| life is ordinarily well educated, and has
| enjoyed experiences far beyond the ordi-
nary experiences of any young man his
own age not possessed of wealth and
means to thoroughly satisfy and cater to
| all his wants and wishes without restraint.
| In the matter of experience the plaintiff
| is throughout credited with being particu-
larry well blessed, though the complaint
alleged he was simple as child. In this
regard the defendant alleges the plaintiff
| "has had the experience of men double his
age and has run the gantlet and knows all
| the ills and vices that flesh is heir to, and
has had all the experiences of life, not
only common to young men of his age,
but common to young men of this age."
If he hasn't found any occupation she
says it is because he didn't want any.
| There is also a serious difference of opin-
| ion as to which of the twain commenced
and prosecuted the courtship. The plain
tiff asserted that the fair one had taken
the aggressive from the start. She had
sought an introducti on, had followed him
UP persistently and had urged him to wed.
Her persistence conquered and he sue
cumbed.
The defendants story is remarkably
similar, with the leading characters trans
posed. He it was who was persistent and
she was coy. But he conquered. Their
statements also clash painfully in regard
to the wine suppers. He claimed she ad-
vocated this form of entertainment. This
she Indignantly denies and says it was at
the plaintiffs suggestion that they had
wine, and she continuously urged him not
to drink so much, as it would make him ill.
| Nita says if Fred didn't know all abo ut
her past 1t was his own fault. She re-
| peatedly tried to tell him her history, but
he refused to listen, insisting that he
wanted only her and oid't care anythin g
| about her previous misfortunes.
! Her alleged story of an unfortunate
marriage with Charles Day, or Clarence
Day, she declares an airy fabric of the
Adams imagination. AS matter of fact,
she says Adams was the first and only
man to whom she had ever been married
| The statement is also styled as false that
she had to pay all the expenses of buggy
rides and wine dinners. She says that the
plaintiff often had money to pay for their
excursions. She admits plaintiff some
times pawned her jewelry and clothing to
raise the "needful," )" but this, she declares,
was at his importantly, and not at her
suggestion. He always promised to pay
| the next day.
The circumstances of their visit to Mar
| tineZ and their subsequent marriage there
are related. Here they lived together as
man and wife after the ceremony, it is al
| legged, as well as at numerous hotels at San
Francisco. 1t was while at the latter that
they visited the questionable resorts of
which Adams alleged previous ignorance.
His wife says she was the one who was un-
sophisticated, and Adams seemed remark
ably we'll acquainted with the surround
| ings and attendants.
While they were thus enjoying them
selves Fred left their room at one of the
hotels, saying he would return in a few
minutes. He neglected his engagement
and has not returned yet.
| The allegations of the defendants previ-
Gus immortality cause her TO wax indig-
nant. After denying specifically the
charges of profigacy she declares the alle-
cations in the complaint are Outrageous,
| scandaIous, conceived by the plaintiff,
| born of his i'm agination, and simply placed
| in the said complaint for the wanton pur-
pose of needlessly harassing the said de-
| fendant."
There is cross-complaint attached to