The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-24
WANTS $4,000.
Springer, the Card Expert, Values
His Wlf6s Love at
That Figure.


a card expert. attached to what Is known
as the Petroleum club. at 20 West
Thirty-third street. has been seized with
a burning desire TO detach the modest
sum of $4,000 from the supposed pletho-
ric Golfers of Edgar G. Mayer. shirt
manufacturer at u West Twenty-sixth
street.
OF course. there is the Inevitable woman
In the case. the one in this particular
instance being Olga Materne Springer.
wife of Mr.. Springer.
Springer filed suit for $4,000 in the
Supreme court yesterday against Mayer.
alleging that the shirtmaker had ''by va
rious wies and by costly gifts completely
alienated' the affections of his wife.
The instant these papers were served
on Mayer. he started on a hop. skip and
jump for the office of his attorney,
Emanuel M. Friend.
The language of the opposition coun-
sci was evidently too much clouded for
this usually astute little limb OF the law.
and In a few minutes he had on file In
the Supreme court demand for a bill
of particulars.
HE WANTS TO KNOW.
the word wiles. What are wiles?' he
asks. and If there are different kinds OF
wiles he wants to know the particular
brand which Mayer is accused OF having
employed to win Mrs. Springer from her
husband.
He also seeks to learn how Springer
and his attorney figured that the wife
was worth $4,000 to the plaintiff. Fur
| thermore. how many and of what descrip-
| ton are the valuable gifts which Mr..
Mayer is alleged to have given to Mrs.
| Springer.
II this demand for bill of particulars
is complied with IL will mean the ope~
| ing of one of the most sensational di-
vorce trials on record on the island OF
Manhattan.
The first news of discord in the Springer
| family was given to the public by the
Morning Telegraph several months ago.
About the opening of the races for the
| spring season at Gravesend hundreds of
| persons waiting for ferry at Thirty
| fourth street, were treated TO tre-
mendously lively scrap"
LOST THE FIRST BOUT.
A beautiful well dressed woman, and a
| carefully groomed man. who were snug
| gled up close to each other and chatting
| gayly, apparently oblivious to all sur
| roundings were attacked by a fiashi.y
L
mans husband, Philip @. Springer. The
oblivious twain were Mrs. Springer and
| Edgar A. Mayer. Springer got rather the
worst OF the encounter and retired. leay-
| ing his wife and layer to journey on TO
the racetrack. where they picked losers
w..A rare disregard for the coin of the
/ realm.
The second chapter of this tale requires
a shifting of scenes to the wide veranda
OF the Rowland Hotel, In Long Branch
Up TO ten days ago probably the dress
lest couple and apparently the fondest
couple. Foxily he got in earshot and saw
Springer and Edgar A. Mayer
They met at breakfast. and when busi-
ness did not require Mayors presence in
his shirt factory they were together all
day. t.,i
THIS MADE MAYER ANGRY.
One evening Mayer returned from the
city to Long Branch by late train. He
| made desperate haste 10 get 10 the How
land and the society of Mrs. Springer.
In the parlors. upstairs. downstairs, ev-
| erywhere. he ran to find her.
In the darkest nook of the veranda to-
ward the rear of the house, he saw a
| couple. Foxily he got In eashot and saw
| and heard things which raised the demon
of anger within his chest.
"Perfidious woman,' miserable
wretch" and lots of other tabascoish
things he 'shrieked in her affrighted
| ears"
Then he went to the hotel office. yank-
ing wad of bills out OF his pocket as he
fastened. He settled. and then, some
what calmer, he went upstairs, packed
his belongings in few dress suit cases
and disappeared in the darkness.
1t almost seems like adding pigs Of
lead to the load on a camers broken back
to ask for $4,000 from a man who has
been treated thus.
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