The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-08-02
MRS. CRUMP SUES FOR DIVORCE.
She Secures Alimony and the Custody
of Her Children Pending Trial.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Special.-Mrs.
Edith Allan Crump will receive alimony
OF $75 a month, SO counsel fees, and
custody Of her two children. pending ths
disposition OF her suit for divorce against
Fraak III. Crump.
This was the decision OF Justice Cole
in Equity Court No. / this afternoon at
the preliminary hearing OF the suit.
Mr.. Crump Is the assistant auditor OF
the Southern railway. and Mrs. Crump
Is the daughter OF General Edgar Allan.
Both formerly resided in Richmond.
Mrs. Crump's suit was instituted some
weeks ago. The declaration Is quits
lengthy documents. and 1t is a sad story
OF domestic woe. His answer has not
been filed.
Mrs. Crump charges that her husband
drove her from the house In which they
were boarding on May 3lst of this year.
and that she took refuge In the home
Of her parents, next door.
In detail she alleges that he was quar-
relsome. irascible, domneering. petulant,
exacting, abusive and cruel in his treat
ment"
She says she was treated with disre-
spect and contempt I'm the presence OF
other boarders In the house.
Some time ago she made n visit 10
friends in Sumter. $. c.. with his full
consent. During her absence she charges
that Mr.. Crump paid such marked at
tentions TO a young woman living I'm the
same house as 10 cause much disagreea-
BILE comment. When she returned from
this visit she was taunted with having
left him.
Prior to the elimination OF the trouble.
the bill says, he threatened TO kick
complainant out OF the window OF her
ROOM" and otherwise ill-treated her, and
told her he had never loved her at all.
and that she had 10 leave him. IL not
done or her own accord. he would make
10 too hot and uncomfortable for her 10
remain.
At this juncture her father told crump
he would protect his daughter II war was
declared by the defendant. and that he
would seek 10 allow her To retain GUS
tody OF the children. even II he had 10
support them, "as he had mainly done
since the marriage"
Mrs. Crump says she has been n suf-
ferer from nervous diseases for seven or
eight years and that the maltreatment
she received greatly aggravated tho
trouble. She says he only partially pro-
vided FOR the support OF her and thu
children; that her father boarded them
without charge and furnished their resi-
dence when they kept house; that her
husband told her when ill she was only
SntUlIull-s All nNt Hfflfu nho dAfiF7
work; that he refused 20 pay the bills
OF physicians: that these and the funeral
expenses Of her first child were paid by
her father. on one occasion, she says.
she was threatened with exclusion from
Crump's home IL she went TO Philadel-
phia for necessary treatment. She went,
however, and while she was absent she
says he took the three children away
from their grandmother and 20 Hyatts-
vile, Nd, where one OF them contracted
a violent cold. which developed into
pneumonia and caused It's death.
Mrs Crump says her husband never
visited or wrote 10 her. although In PhS
adelphia while she was there. When she
was IN she charges that he obtained her
signature 10 a pass-book and drew from
a bank some OF her personal savings and
spent the money.
In her declaration she says he receives
a salary OF $2,400
she asks alimOny and custody OF the
children. charging that ne has been ex-
cessively cruel 10 them and Is not ne
person 10 have them under control, ana
that he has failed 10 provide clothing
for them.
The two living children are Edna Land
and Gladys Crump. aged. respectively.
six and three years.