The San Francisco call., 1898-04-07
WILL LET HIS
 WIFE BE FREE Young Mrs. .Ainsworth Had to Flee at Night to
 Her Mother.
Very Anxious for a Piano That She Says the Captain Gave
 to Her.
The Aged Husbands Story Puts the Girl Wife in a Very Peculiar
 Position.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call

Oakland Offlce San Francisco Call,
 sos Broadway. April 6.
 It was decided to-day that the divorce suit of the Ainsworths should not be con- tested. The young lady will be permitted to obtain her divorce and the aged hus- band, old enough to be her grandfather, with decade of years to spare, will not make any effort to prevent her from car rying out plans which her correspond ence shows she has already laid for the future.
 Captain George R. R. Ainsworth was many years ago a wealthy New York banker. Some of his speculations went wrong and .he gradually lost most of his possessions. With what little remained to him he came to the coast and has lived on Market street in this city many years He has long been widower and has two sons now in business in Oakland. About eighteen months ago Captain Ainsworth surprised his friends and rela- tives by taking to his house a young girl then little over + years of age named Ida Murphy and proclaiming that she was his wife. An investigation was nec- essary to satisfy his family that their father had committed any such peculiar act, but proof was forthcoming and they accepted the situation.
 According to the young lady's com plaint for divorce they lived in moderate domestic happiness for about six months, after which they began to quarrel. Grad ually, according to the allegations, the aged husband became more and more cruel, and on two occasions the girl wife says she was forced to flee to her mother, who lived close by the Ainsworths, for protection. In each instance she returned to her husband. She also says she was induced to marry him because he repre- sented to her that he was well situated financially, and that he was in a posi- tion to educate her and bring her up in such manner as betits the wife of a
 These promises have not been fulfilled but it is stated that on one occasion Cap tain Ainsworth gave his young wife a very good piano. and she Is very anxious that the court award her this gift. The piano and the decree of divorce will ap- parently satisfy the young lady.
 equinocual romance. The captain has in his possession some very interesting let ters, certainly such letters as a dutiful young wife is not supposed to write They are to young men, and in one of them there is more than suggestion that a trip to Portland. Or, would be pleas ant diversion from young Mrs. Aims worth's routine life. These letters were corralled by the captain owing to the thoughtlesssness. of young Mrs. Ainsworth when she left for the last time her hus- bands roof-tree. The captain says that he does not consider 1t advisable to try and hold such giddy young girl to her strong desire to have them severed, and consequently in his answer he merely de- nies in a perfunctory way each and all of when he is again free to commit matri- mony.
 The captain is a dignified. well-edu- cated, reticent man, and 1t has always been surprise to his many friends how he was led into this nasty marriage with Miss Murphy.