The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-03
WINTER JOINED WITH SPRING.
NOW MRS. HUTCHINSON WANTS d.
VoRCE FROM ACTOR HUSBAND.

"RandsOme willard" Hutchinson
Says He Got a3.OOO.OOO From the
Old Girl Just TO Marry Her and
Makes No Bones About Telling 1t.
Is StiII Travelling with "a show at
$50 a Week, HOwever-Papers in
the Divorce Case served on Him at
Brunswick Yesterday.
Brunswick. Ga. jan 2.-After chasing
Willard Hutchinson. the handsome young
actor, club man and beau ideal of the
matinee girls, round the world. attorneys
for his S0-year-old wife succeeded in get
ting close enough 10 him in Brunswick
to-day to serve him with papers requir-
ing him to appear in New York at the
net term Of court and show cause way
he should not surrender about So 600, 900
worth of New York property to his wife
Hutchinson is a dashing young actor in
George Clarks' when We Were Twenty
one company. He reached Brunswick this
morning, and shortly after the morning
toilet had been made. legal papers as
aforesaid were served on him. The mat
ter was kept quiet until tonight when
a correspondent ran across the story and
sought Hutchinson out. He was on the
stage at the time, the center of all eyes
and especially admired by many who liked
his young and well-groomed person.
Hutchinson was caught as he was coming
off the stage. Upon being pressed for a
statement he said in substance:
Yes. legal papers were served on me
to-day. They were served at the instance
OF my wife She is on the shady side of
seventy. She wants property that she
gave me to marry her There was a
straightout trade. ] married her in good
faith and got the property as her part of
the bargain. I lived with her until she
grew so jealous l had to leave her"
Il am not surprised al her action in
serving me with legal papers. l have
been expecting it for some time and am
somewhat surprised that she did not do
it sooner. I expect though, that the law
yers could not find me, as l have been out
of the state for some time. There is no
question about my having the property all
right 1t is worth about three million. and
/ am going to keep 1t. She Is my wife
ard she gave it to me to marry her Come
up to the hotel after the show and l
will let you see some papers in which my
attorneys and one of the trustees say
there is no question about my having a
legal right to the property. They also
tell my side of IT great deal better than
can now in this hurried talk"
With this last statement, Hutchinson
was called for TO go on with another
scene. and the interview ended.
Dashing Willard Hutchinson is "a years
of age and earns $35 per week. He Is one
of the handsomest and best dressed men
on the stage. aud never fails to capture
the admiration OF the young lady element
of the audience Mrs. Hutchinson. is so
years old, but stin wife of handsome
Willard. He is her fourth husband The
others have been divorced. and by legal
right she wears the name of Mrs. Louisa
Chamberlain Caldwell Tompkins Marco
Hutchinson She also did have the title
to 5000 900 worth of New York business
block property. and this property is what
young Hutchinson claims she gave up for
the right to bear his name and receive his
hand in marriage.
Three times she has been divorced and
now seeks to get what she gave for a
fourth husband back by process of law
But 1t seems that Hutchinson has learned
by the experience of others. and accbrd-
ing to his statement he has "a dead sure
cinch" on the So 100000, if a slang express
sion may be fittingly used. In turn, Mrs
Hutchinson has tried all kinds of men.
First il was a physician, then a soldier
next an insurance man, and finally abe
young actor OF all these. the actor
seems to have got the best end of the bar
gan and holds the key to her millions
some OF which her former husbands have
helped TO make.