The San Francisco call., 1899-12-12

GOD y order issued yesterday by Judge
II " Daingerfield granting the petition
~ OF the defendant in the suit OF
u Frankie Grant Gale against Adel
bert Orlando Gale for change OF
venue from San Francisco TO SOnOma
County marks the beginning Of a legal
contest which, II IL reaches a final issue.
will TEEN with sensational disclosures.
frankie Gale is suing for an annulment
or her marriage TO the defendant. She
alleges that her husband. Adelbert Or
lando. is a bigamist. The husband. who
is brother of the widow Of the late Asa
Fisk, will contest the action on the
ground that his bride OF but a few months
is an adventures: that she married him
for the dollars she thought he possessed.
and charged him with being a bigamist to
cover up her own sins in the same line
and prevent possible prosecution in Den
yer. Colo. Incidentally there are hints Of
blackmail and insinuatiOns that frankie
Grant Gale has hopes OF securing balm
for the alleged shock TO her affections
from the fortune that passed into the
hands Of her husbands sister. Mrs. Fisk.
Through all the story of scandal and rO-
nance that is interviewer throughout the
suit of Gale VS.. Gale the Fisk fortune
seems TO form prominent part.
The litigants mad been married but
three months when the wife played her
a
perate game OF blackmail. The wedding
which occurred at the Geysers, IN SOnOma
County, was a pyrOtechnlcal affair. Scenes
were enacted there which rival IN baccha-
naIian Tevelry the widest occurrences at
the famous French Dali, and IN which
many prominent people drank champagne
and kicked the globes on the eIecJrc
nights, side by sIoe with painted beauties
whose home addresses are III san Fran
ciscos tenderloin. Frank Jordan, County
Clerk OF Alameda, was a prominent ngure
ReTA ffag Afnh ha hrrrf ss..Il
even her husband did not know who she
was or whence she came. lie had known
her but three weeks. She had made vio-
lent love TO him. He could not resist her
charms, and so the wedding TOOK place
The husband finds himself charged with
being Il blSamlst, and the custOdians or
caution 10 prevent the woman they claim
10 be an adventures from getting any
part OF their property.
AdelDert Gale ana Gilman Gale, his
brother, backed Dy their sisters money,
were the lessees of the Geysers in Som
oma County. Adelbert is now running the
place all by himself as one of the results
OF the wedding, which has turned out SO
| disastrously, Tor his brother packed his
valise and left the day before the cere-
mony and he has never returned.
IL was while the Gale brothers were en-
| gagged In extending the glad hand 10
summer guests that a dashing young
woman arrived on the stage one day In
] the middle OF last July ana registered as
Miss FRANKIE Grant OF Denver. Colorado.
She was accompanied by Mrs Argle,
/ Pearl Elkins and Marie Wone, three
women who subsequently played star en-
gagements in Gales matrimonial drama.
| AIR. Gales nephew. who also enjoyed the
/ festivities that attended the wedding,
] says now that he did not know at the
/ time the character Of the last-named trio
/ or he might not have allowed them to be
| bridesmaids at his uncle's nuptials and
might have objected 10 them kicking the
/ globes off the electric lights.
Miss Grant Of Denver cast loving
| glanees at Adelbert Gale the day after
/ she arrived at the Geysers. lie was some
! what shy at the start, but within week
/ she had won him and from that on until
/ a Methodist minister was brought up
! from Cloverdale TO make them man and
wife they were seldom out of each other :
! company. Mrs. Argyle. Pearl Elkins and
| Marie Wone were close observers Of the
! love-making. They exchanged knowing
/ glances and held mysterious CONVERSE
| tions, while the rest of the guests at the
| hotel looked upon the affair OF Adelbert
! Gale and Miss Grant Of Denver as a sum-
/ mer Irritation and nothing more, Great
was the surprise when the loving couple
| announced, after three weeks Irritation
/ that they were going TO be married and
| that they had settled upon August as
| the date of the ceremony. Mrs. Asa Fisk
| was at the hotel at the time and so was
her son, Arthur Fisk. They did not Offer