The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-03
EDISON, JUN.,
LOSES WIFE.
She Recently Deserted Her
Husband at Lake George.
TOOK HIS MONEY AND CLOTHES
Young Thomas Had TO Walk From
Yonkers, Being Thrown From Train
MARRIED AGAINST FATHERS WISHES.
She Was a Shapsly Casino Girl, and Now He
viii SUI for Divorce and Damages TO
Amount Of $4,000.
MARRIED AGAINST FATHERS WISHES.


New York, Aug. 3.-Thomas A. Edison,
Jr., who married Casino girl against
the advice and wishes of his Gather the
famous wizard of electricity, has Tee !
deserted by his bride and had u consulta-
ton yesterday with a lawyer relative TO
bringing suit against man namel Fair
fax for $4,000 on the charge of alienation
of her affections.
Footsore and weary. young Edison
early yesterday morning walked into a
saloon near the Lyceum Theatre at
Fourth avenue and Twenty-fourth street
lie was bedraggled and dirty. unkempt
and unshaved. and, after sobbing whole
lot asked the privilege of taking a nap
ON a chair in one of the little side rooms
OF the place.
He drifted into that place because he
knew a BARTENDER employed there. and
thought that from this man he would
get better treatment than would be ac-
corued him ~ relatives. or in his own
home.
from Yonkers, having been thrown from
a train at that point because he had
no money and nothing in his pockets
by which to identity himself as the son
OF Thomas A. Edison.
He said that his wife had deserted him
at Lake George, where they bad gone
for the summer. and that she had not
only taken all his money, but every
scrap OF clothing he possessed, even TO
collars and handkerchiefs.
ELoPED TWO YEARS AGO.
Nearly two years ago Edison, who is
not yet of age, and who had become one
OF the regulars of the rather fast set of
youngsters hanging around the Casino
corner. eloped with and married Marie
Tuohey, a fluffy haired blonde, who was
one OF the most vivacious and popular
girls OF the Casino chorus.
Marie Tuohey is the daughter of q dry
goods merchant who has a store on Moth
Clark street. in Chicago. Her desire to
show her blonde beauty and shapelness
on the stage led her to desert her Chicago
home and find her way TO New York,
Broadway and the Casino.
When young Edison met her he had
already patented several electrical de-
vices and had all kinds of money to
spend. They were almost inseparable
from that momeht.
Edison's parents tried In various ways
to cure him of his infatuation for the
girl. but without avail They ran away
and were married Mrs Edison retired
from the stage and they settled down i'm
a fiat in Sixty-third street, near Central
Park West.
1t was not long until the young bride
had her mother and sister on from Chi
cago, and presently Edison's troubles be-
gan in earnest.
COULDN'T KEEP 1T UP.
He could not make enough money to
keep the establishment going at the pace
his wife and her relatives set, and he
began 10 sell his name of Edison to va
rious corporations i'm electrical lines
This caused much trouble to his father,
who finally agreed to give his son an al
lowance OF $50 a week on condition that
he never again should lend his name to
any business firm or corporation.
Some weeks ago Mrs. Edison made up
her mind that she wanted to go To Lake
George for the summer. They went and
were apparently quite happy until the
young husband found letter or two
from his friend Fairfax. addressing the
wife In all sorts of endearing ways.
However this trouble was patched up.
On Monday word came to the hotel at
which they Were stopping of an enormous
catch of fish at n point some miles dis
tant Mrs. Edison told her husband TO go
and take a look at the fish and tell her
all about them on his return.
When he got back about o'clock I'm the
evening he found that not only had his
wife gone, but that she had taken along
every stitch Of his wearing apparel
He said yesterday that the only thing be-
longing TO them she had hft I'm their
rooms was an old comb with more than
half the teeth broken off
HEADED FOR BROADWAY.
lie knew that she would not be away
from Broadway long. and. borrowing a
little money from friend. took the next
train from Lake George for New York.
lie bought too many libations on the
way. and his money gave out when he
reached Yonkers. An uneeeling conduc-
tor put him off the train at that point
and there was nothing for him TO do but
walk TO New York.
Friends gave him enough money ycster-
day 10 buy food with. aud he spent nearly
the entire dav waiting I'm the neiphbor-
hood OF the Casino corner. satisfied that
he would there he able 60 get track OF his
wife. His watchfulness was rewarded
with a sight OF her late I'm the afternoon.
Then he tracked her about town for
an hour or two and finally saw her enter
the apartment house at 81 West Sixty
fourth street.
lie SAYS the nat I'm which she is living
has the name of Fairfax on tho doorplate
and that hIs former friend Is the man
who r. paving the rent.
with this evidence and few very
warm letters addressed IN his wife he
thinks he has grounds for divorce and an
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