The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-01-03
AGED WIFE ASKS COURTS TO
RESTORE $4,000, 900 ESTATE.
Says She Was Induced by Fraud and
Deceit to Deed Her Property to Her
Youthful Husband.

old, now claims that he induced her
to deed all her property, which she
sis worth So, 900, 900, to him and
Paul Sheldon, a lawyer, on July IL
last. Hutchinson is an actor and il
said to be in New Orleans. His aged |
bride says she does not care if he |
never comes back, ii she can recover
her property.
Mrs Hutchinson has brought suit
in the supreme court to have the |
deed of transfer cancelled and declar |
ed null and void, on the ground OF |
fraud, and her attorneys, Stickney, |
Spencer and Ordway to-day obtain |
ed an order from Judge Leventritt,
in the supreme court, directing ser
vice of the summons and complaint |
the action To be made by publica
ton. Acc0TrpadEji,,.g Mrs Hutehin-
sons affidavit declaring that ier
husband cannot be found, is AM tt.S
fidavit by Fred H Adams, in which
he says Hutchinson is at present III
New Orleans playing with theatri-
cttl company on the road
In detailing her experiences Mrs.
Hutchinson says her marriage to
Hutchinson took place on Feb. II,
1900, after they had been acquaint-
ed for two years. She was then 20,
while he-was approaching his 23rd
birthday. She had Travelled with
him through the country and had
| furnished him with money and paid
all his expenses, even to buying his
clothes.
She fell in love with him and be-
lieved in and trusted him implicitly
and their acquaintance ended in their
union. She was a believer in spirit
ualism and he told her, she declares
that he had received IL communica
ton from her dead son who advised
that they get married. She believed
| that Hutchinson had received such Il
communication from her son and it
was on this representation that she
consented to the marriage.
After the honeymoon they came to
this city and on April 10 registered
| at the Hoffman house That after
noon, the old lady says, Hutchinson
| rushed into her apartments i'll state
| of great excitement and told her that
| her relatives, who were incensed at
her on account of his marriage to
| her, were about to have her declared
insane and committed to an asylum,
so that they might get her property.
it is declared, he told her the only
way to avoid the cOnfiscation of her
property was to make it over to him
by deed This having been done her
| relatives would have no reason to
take any further steps to have her
declared incompetent to manage her
own affairs.
She agreed to the transfer HutcE-
inson said he would call d lawyer in
consultation and have him fix up
the papers. He subsequently turned
up with Sheldon and, it is asserted,
a deed was made by which she hand
ed over her entire estate to her hus-
band and Sheldon. They told her,
she SAYS, that as soon as the trouble
with her relatives blew over her
property would be reconveyed to
her. Some time afterward she be-
came suspicious and dissatisfied and
asked that her property be trans
ferred back to her. Hutchinson
would not consent to this, but, it is
said, induced her to execute new
deed, by which her estate was placed
in trust in the hands of her husband
and Sheldon.
| According to this arrangement the
income was TO be equally divided be-
| tween Hutchinson and his wife.
Later on. Mrs. Hutchinson SAYS.
she learned that her relatives had no
idea of attempting to get her com
| mitted as lunatic, and that she had
been grossly deceived by her hus-
band and Sheldon. Shecharges that
they Jointly engaged in a scheme to
defraud her of her property. Mrs.
Hutchinson says she has awakened
from her spiritual dream and that
she knows now her son never sent
any message to her through Hutch
inson.
Hutchinson is the fourth husband
OF the complainant They were mar