The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25
He LOVES ANOTHER.
So Richard Hunt, the
Architect, Tells
His Wife.
THEY NOW LIVE APART.
Woman Who Caused the
Trouble Leaves Her
Husband.
THEY NOW LIVE APART.

Worcester friends of Richard Hunt,
the famous New York architect, partic-
ularly ex- Mayor Henry A. Marsh, who
is an intimate personal friend of Mr..
Hunt, learned with surprise yesterday
that Mr.. Hunt and his wife have sep
arated.
Mr.. Hunt is very well known in this
city from the fact that on the death of
his father, Richard NJ. Hunt, the most
celebrated of American architects, he
was selected to pass final judgment on
the plans for the new city hall. 1t was
on his advice as an expert that the con
tract was awarded to Peabody &
Stearns.
There is to be no libel for divorce
brought by either party, it is said, but
the matter of a settlement for the child
rem is pending. They have been married
for IA years. Up to last winter not a
cloud obscured their happiness. In tell
ing her story, Mrs. Hunt says that her
husband assured her that he loves an
other. Hence the estrangement
Mr. Hunt refuses to discuss the mat
ter in detail. He frankly tells the public
Through the press to mind its own bust
ness Mrs. Hunts statement follows:
Mr. Hunt and | were married four
teen years ago. We have three children.
He was a devoted huf 0and and a good
father until this madness seized him,
for l firmly believe that he is insane.
MY friends all know of my hard work
in the hospital at Hampstead while the
returned soldiers were at Camp Wykoff.
Well, throughout the winter there was
never a day which did not bring me
letter from my husband. They were just
such letters as man naturally writes
to- his wife; nothing in one of them to
excite a suspicion as to his loyalty.
But when l returned home l found
changed mana stranger in Mr..
Hunt. He made no concealment of the
fact that he had ceased to love me.
Further than that, he fatty told me
that his love had been transferred to
another.
1T will be impossible for me to tell
all that followed; you can Judge the
horror and disgust with which l regard
the whole matter. OF course my hus-
bands confession, if you may so term
It, ended all association between us. l
left his house at once-on the night he
confessed to me-taking my three child
rem with me.
THE woman who caused all the
trouble made no effort to conceal her
position in the matter. She and my
husband love each other, and made no
concealment of the fact. Her husband
has left her just as 1 have left my hus
band. He has leased his house and
purchased an estate far away, where
he has gone with his only child. The
woman is in New York with her father.
m s,.. d.
lawyers and hence l am unable to say
just what plans will be followed.
my husband coolly demands that l
divorce him. so that he may marry this
woman. She, on the other hand is pre-
pairing to take up residence out west,
where the laws will facilitate her re-
lease from her husband.
Nov my position is simply this: l
will never live with Mr.. Hunt again for
single moment, but l do not seek a
divorce. All that l demand is a proper
financial settlement for the mainte-
nance of my children.
MIR. Hunt says that he will die if
he fails to marry this woman, and i
believe him. He promises various
things in regard to divorce proceedings
but the only question of interest to me
is the financial arrangement in behalf
of the children.
Mrs Hunt is tall, handsome blonde.
Her husband gave her no higher posi-
ton in society," for all that he was the
son of Americas leading architect and
millionaire. Until Mrs. Hunts return
from Camp Black there was not the
slightest intimation that any trouble
existed in the Hunt family affairs.
Richard Hunt seemed proud of his
wife, and she was wrapped up in her
three lusty children They were al
ways in the sporting set, and every
1Oe CD,
Almost invariably they were with Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Watrous, their neigh
boris Mrs Hunt and Mrs. Watrous ex-
hibited their dogs together, conducted
a kennel together, and were as near to
each other as sisters.
Nor was the friendship between Hunt
: and Watrous less close
While Mrs. Hunt was away on her
mission Of mercy among the sick sol
diers her husband was most attentive
to Mrs. Watrous, and the Garden City
folk became accustomed to see Mr..
Hunt driving with the slender, dark
matron who was his wifes nearest
friend, but the families were such near
friends that 1t caused no remark
If the statement of Mrs Oliver Har-
riman, Jr., Mrs. Hunts sister, be the
true solution Of the puzzle, Mr. Hunt
succumbed to the dazzling beauty of
the slender, dark-haired woman into
whose society he was thrown so much.
my sister" said Mrs. Hartman,
has as yet given but a faint outline of
this remarkable case. Every one knows
Of her devotion to the sick soldiers and
Of the resulting collapse of her health.
Her physicians sent her south for the
winter, Mr.. Hunt remaining in Garden
City The trouble came like a flash of
lightning from a clear sky. 1t was
simply Incredible
Mr.. Hunt turned his back squarely
on my sister at the depot in Garden
City on her return home. He would not
speak to her. Imagine Mrs. Hunts po-
sition. She left a reasonably affection
ate husband and returned to find that
he hated her.
MIR. Hunt made no attempt to dis
guise his feelings.
I don't care a snap for my wife and
children he said in explanation I love
this woman and she loves me-. Yet this
woman is married and has a child ,of
her own. Her husband conferred with
our family and took her 10 Europe,
hoping that absence would restore her
to a perception of the enormity Of her
course. 1t did no good"
Walter Watrous is with his brother
at Lake George. Mrs. Watrous Is with
her father in New York.