The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-14
ASKS $4,000.
Mrs. LeWella C. Cakes, Divorced
and Abused Wife.
Sues Her Former Millionaire
Husband.
SAYS SHE WASN'T MAD
But That She Was Placed In
an Asylum.
Mr.. Cakes Has Since Married
Another Woman.


| 1ncarcerated in insane asylums in this
| state and finally taken forcibly to a
| mad-house in Connecticut, although she
| was, as she alleges. all the time perfect
! iy sane, Mrs. Lewella C. Cakes has sued.
| her former husband, Francis J. Cakes,
| the millionaire president of the Cakes
Chemical company, for $3.50 900. DR..
Neil o. Fitch and DR.. William L. Bur-
nett also are made defendants in the
action.
Mrs Cakes also has sued Mrs. Ade-
! lafde Sullivan Cakes, present wife of
Francis J. Cakes. for 500, 900 for alien
ating her husbands affections. The first
case was put on the calendar in the
supreme court in this city yesterday.
| BLAMES THE POOR MILLINER
Mrs. LeWella c. Cakes lays all her
! troubles at the door of Adelaide Sulli-
van, her cousin, and at one time a MILL
ner in Boston. The first Mrs Cakes be-
friended the milliner, bought her clothes
and helped her in many ways. Then
| MIR. Cakes, as the story is told in the
! complaint, began to be friendly with
Miss Sullivan. He became her angel
| IN theatrical enterprise, got her intro
duced into the theatrical company of
Joseph Haworth spending many thou
sands of dollars on her wardrobe and
finally, only eight days after he got a
divorce from his wife, married Miss
sullivan in the Church of the Holy In
nocents, in West Thirty-sixth street.
At the wedding Joseph HaWorth and
the whole ''Rosedale" company in which
! Miss Sullivan had been playing, were
| present, Mr.. Haworth acting as best
man. Miss Sullivan's stage name was
Adelaide Silvani.
Before Adelaide Sullivan appeared.
Mrs. Cakes lived with her husband in
country house in Steinway,L. /. There
were many servants, horses and car
| riages. Now she is in most reduced cir
cumstances, and earns her living sing
ing in a church choir while her former
husband and his wife live in fine home
y -if Ia Orix~
| third street.
SENT TO AN ASYLUM.
Mr.. Cakes married his first wife in
Trinity church with much display in
July, 1882. In November 1891 he first
had her placed in an asylum. This was
the private institution of DIR. Barstow
| in Flushing, L. l. She was taken there
on a certificate of insanity. signed by
DrS. Neil O. Fitch and William J. Bur-
nett, who it is alleged in the complaint
| had Joined in a conspiracy with Cakes
| and Adelaide Sullivan to get Mrs Cakes
| out of the way.
Before being taken to the asylum Mrs
Cakes was arrested for assaulting her
step-son and locked up in the Queens
County Jail. 1t was there that the med
| zeal men pronounced her insane. After
| being in the asylum many months. her
| husband took her for a European trip.
He said that in Berlin his wife became
violent again, so that he had to give up
/ his trip and return home. She was then
locked up again, this time in DR.. Har-
| rison's asylum, in Whitestone.
TALE OF KIDNAPPING.
While in this place habeas corpus
proceedings We're instituted to get her
out, but before the papers could be
served, the complaint alleges, she was
kidnapped from this asylum and taken
to the asylum of DR.. Kindred,in Darien.
Conn.
She says she was perfectly sane all
this time. Among the papers in the
! case is an affidavit of DR.. Kindred. de-
claring her sane. DR.. Kindred tells of
meeting Cakes and DR.. Fitch, in the
Manhattan club. They told him Mrs.
Cakes was insane and dangerous, and
they wanted her taken from the White
stone institution to Connecticut, and
that upon this understanding she was
removed to his pace in Darien.
4 watched her" says DR.. Kindred,
for nine or ten days and became con-
WINGED that she was perfectly sane. I
thereupon called at the office of George
Hill, attorney for Cakes, and told Cakes
that believed his wife sane and that I
would not assume the responsibility of
keeping her"
Mrs Cakes then was released. and
soon afterward brought suit in Brook
| Ign for a separation. Her husband filed
a cross suit for divorce, won the case
| and in eight days married his present
wife.
PERJURY IS ALLEGED
Mrs Lewella Cakes says the divorce
of her husband was obtained on per-
| iured evidence. Henry NJ. Heyman
! proceedings, was named as one of the
correspondents. She will attempt to
prove on the trial that there was plot
between her husband and Adelaide Sui
| Ivan to get her out of the way.
1t will be asserted that the first move
| in the plot was to send Mrs. Cakes with
her brother to the Catskills, under an
arrangement whereby Cakes was to
| pay the brother $25 a week and expen-
ses as long as he should keep his sister
| in the Catskills.
| After staying there for several weeks
| Mrs. Cakes became suspicious that
something was wrong, as she had not
heard from her husband. She said she
| was going home Her brother tried to
restrain her. That night she stole from
| the hotel alone. and by pawning a dia-
mond lOcket she reached home.
| Her husband was not at home Even
! then the break did not come between
man and wife. 1t came one day when,
| Mr.. Cakes being asleep on the lounge,
Mrs. Cakes looked at some letters in
| his pocket and came across one from
| Miss Sullivan.
ANGRY AT DISCOVERY.
| Cakes awOke and became angry. A
wordy fight enSued. and not long after
| that the first move was made to get her
| into the asylum, she says.