The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-22
George Stuart Smith Goes to Jail
on Action Brought by R.C. .Sibley
for Alienation OF Affections.

New York. Jan e2-George Stuart
Smith, an insurance and society man.
who is noted for his good looks. his
limping gait and a remarkable impedi-
ment In his speech, spent yesterday in
Ludlow street jail as the result of a suit
for 500 900 damages which Richard Clay
sibley. New York clubman and one OF
the organizers OF the United States Rub
ber Company and the Whisky Trust, Is
Bringing against him for the alienation
OF the affections OF his wife
Mr.. Smith was unable 90 furnish
bond OF $4,000 demanded by Judge Fitz-.
gerald, of the supreme court. who issued
the order OF arrest He will. IL is expected.
be bailed out this morning. Mr.. Sibley's
attorneys, Kellogg, Rose & Smith. are
preparing divorce suit papers for him.
Mr. Smith was taken TO Ludlow street
jail shortly before midnight by Deputy
Sheriff Ahearn. and has so far endured
his imprisonment with philosophic COM
posure. In the sworn papers presented in
the ease Mr.. Sibley charges Mr. Smith.
who is some sixteen years his junior.
with having stolen Mrs. Sibley's heart
and caused her TO trample on her duties
as wife.
NlT, TlnIeN charges tnat RI inc very
times when he was extending his hospi-
tality 20 Mr.. Smith during the last three
years, and on occasions when he and Mrs.
Sbley were apart. Mr.. Smith took occa-
sion to do him injury. The Sibleys have
two pretty daughters-Adele, thirteen.
and Allne. twelve years old.
When IL was announced last June that
Mr.. Sibley. who was al one time man
OF large wealth and is a member OF the
~ n 4
Racquet and Tennis clubs, and broker
with offices at No. 120 Broadway. had
been served with papers In his wife's
suit for separation on the ground OF
cruelty and inhuman treatment, he ex-
pressed himself as being utterly unable
TO understand It. The papers in the pres
ent case state that he only discovered
lately The real reason why she wanted to
get rid of him.
MUCH OLDER THAN HIS WIFE.
Mr.. sibley Is nfty-six years old and his
wife only thirty-one She was a Miss
Garlic We'll granddaughter of the late
Henry Wci and a beautiful girl. They
were married i'm February, 1856 Mr.. Sb-
Iey's complaint says that the acts charg-
Cd against his wife and Smith were COM
mitted i'm this city. Garden City and
Lakewood at various times In 1897. 1898.
1879 and 1900
l'nul December, 1898, when Mrs. slbley
left her husband, ne says they had lived
happily together at Tuxedo, Garden City,
Nara Ransett Pier, in the Savoy, the
Waldorf Astoria and in a house in West
Fifty-seventh street. spending the sum-
ncr sometimes in the Adirondacks. some
tines at Lake Champlain. According 10
the complaint Mr.. Sshley first noticed In
the fan OF 1927 that his wifes manner 10
H.t... - a 1fafa. Il
loss 10 understand ~ then. and has not
underftocd II since unti recently.
" hrn they were living az the Cam
bridge. ia this city. I'm December 1S9S. Mrs.
Sibley. her husband alleges. left him 10
visit her mother at Lakewood and has
never been willing To return to him. He
supported her until January J. 1900. lie
was served with the papers In her suit
last May and later was ordered TO pay
her $50 n month alimony. and says that
he has bad % leave this state 10 escape
heing nut iu iail for contempt OF court
because he was not able 20 pay a.
lie says that M has been broken down
IN heath and nerves because OF the
trouble and had to drop business. Hc
SAYS be received recently n letter from
Archibald Cuthbertsor who s employed
Oh hts place at Garden City. and in con
scqnence hrcd q detective. who made
report 90 him upon which he has brought
suit ngiHnat smith. and viii brlng an
action against his wife. Among the pa
pors nied In the alteration action is ap
ahidavt by William ~ Dean, the detou-
tive IN the case.
TUE DETECTIVES STORY.
Dean sats that Mr. Smith has apart
msuis az Nc.sj West Thirty second street
and Afrs Sihley lives ln a Dat a. No. 2G5
West Eighty-nIst street Dean testifes
70 baviuE seen smith, whom he describes
es a rather tell upan. wearing a roughly
trimmed Vandyke beard and walking with
y hitch. go with Mira Sihiey 10 her West
Eighty-nrst street apartment on various
occasions from December 80. 1862 20 Jan
uary 7, last, In the evening, and come out