The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-26
In AIlmony Tangls With Wife
Who Secured q Divorce.
FILES REMARKABLE DOCUMENT
Says Mrs. Rodney Is a Shrsw, Untamabls
BY Shakespeare or Satau-Ths
Nlght After Marriage

Washington, Sept. es,-Lieutenant Com
tirsdr-~hoae matrimonial troubles have
been In the district courts for some
months. iled today the most remarkable
lsgsl document ever put on record here.
Chief Justice Bingham handed down on
Friday last rule against Rodney. reauir-
ing him to show cause By next Friday
Why he should not go 10 jail for contempt
o. court refusing to obey sn order Of IN.
court TO pay his wife stated sImony.
The paper iled today Is the answer.
Rodney's married troubles date hack
70 his marriage In Toronto last Novem-
her 10 young woman who was his cousin
twice removed and who claimed TO be Of
noble English blood.
Rodney brought his wife to Washington
and apparently lived happily with her for
some weeks. She then instituted suit
for separate maintenance Rodney con
tested and said he was perfectly willing
TO support his wife alone.
Rodney entered a plea that a friend
of the wife. the daughter Of a Church ot
England clergyman i'm Toronto, and who
wss bridesmaid had obtained such an in
fuence over his wife that he was a non
entity in the household.
The father OF the young woman called
his daughter TO Toronto, and after that
Commander and Mrs Rodney became rec
onciled and lived together for several
months
month or two ago Mrs Rodney sued
for divorce. alleging cruelty She won
her case Rodney was ordered 10 paw
alimony OF f5 month. This ne refused
10 do and Mrs. Rodney made an applca-
tion that he be sdjudsed I'm contempt OF
court His reply today is, In part as fol-
lows:
IAN adventures persistently works this
honorable court and her husband for ALI
mony on her beauty. birth and effrontery
and without so much as one affidavit
or witness. but with all affants emphat-
tcally against her and for that outraged
husband. She calls for limited divorce
with permanent alimony. She is sn ALI
mony heud. a shrew untamabe by either
Shakespeare or Satan.
only through philosophy and humor
can the defendant endure the sorrows
and the tantillzstions by which the lovely
That's makes him. II were. the Saint
Anthony OF the navy
She demands the amusement. hattery,
honor and dignity of being cared for !
through the mandates OF court-husband /
pay by fixed hour or go forth into custody /
OF the marshal II Is inexpressibly de- !
lightful unto her And her mosquito /
mind cannot fancy why every wife Ia the |
land il not at this moment doing the same 1
thing
This vain, young foreigner is never |
weary OF toying and playing with the |
judicial machinery. and exultautly think !
ing IL subserves her every caprice her alb
solutely unearned proht She dsres 10
tssl. T. -
plum tree responsive 10 her gentlest |
shake
American law Is rancid with the spirit |
of false gallantry, which would leave /
wives no duties or penalties and husbands !
no rights or safeguards Alimony-ali-
mony without benefit OF jury-slimony, |
SELLING money without stipulating !
the sufferer 10 be rendered or
at least offered. some degree Of !
equivalent--is the anarchy OF matrimony I
Aud that We have any security any homes
at all, Is through the priaseworthy con-
servatism % respectable women them
selves. who ignore the slimony tempta-
tion, so conveniently utilized by attorney 1
for seduction. at last January was the
case right here
''rhe siren sang. Sing hey tho merry
maiden and the tar She acted with pro-
prietory till the day Nov. 3 IssD she
found herself safely married Then she
tossed mask one way and harp the other.
and began cutting up the shines Of the |
pagan Eoddesses \ man marrying IN
Canada Is not peacefully allowed To get !
away with only one of those girls The
first or sole bridesmaid is ex -offirio priv
ileged to force herself along a brevet wife
ard. curiously enough. with the brides
accord
But when her Church Of England cler-
ryman father heard alimonv he'd broken
M the marriage 50 fervently performed !
he recalled 10 Canada his daughter. the
hrsvct and the wife remained here 90
work the court for aimony
And with shori intervals ~ futile re-
concentration she has heen working N
ever since And aS this court can never
Eet rid of her till her husband nrst sue
leeds IN doing 80. he hopes 10 will not
be called sportive IN calling for the pray
crS nf every body. "a any man confend;nr