Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-16
ALLEGED ABAN'DONM ENT
RUSSELL COLEGROVE SUMMONED TO
COURT BY HIS WIFE
Her Story Told to the Judge The
Charge Dismissed and De-
PENDANT Released.

MIR. Russell Colegrove, son of Mr. James
B. Coiegrove OF this city, and well known
in Washington, was, according to story
In the New York Times prisoner in the
Yorkville police court, at New York, yes
terday, charged with having abandoned his
young wife. Ollie Wynne CoIegrove, to
whom he was married in 1897. The couple,
according to the story told in court, were
married secretly August Is Of that year by
the Rev. Mr.. Blewitt Of 32d street and 9th
avenue, New York city. 1t was also al
legged in court that day or two after the
marriage Russell Colegrove left his wife
and their apartments, and she never saw
him again until Saturday night last. Two
weeks ago she heard that her husband was
in the city and she Immediately secured q
warrant for his arrest on the charge of
abandonment. Mr.. Colegrove was arrested
late Saturday evening at the Lehigh Val
lev railroad station. New York city' as he
was about to board a train for Cleveland.
His father accompanied him In court yes
terday. when Mrs. Colegrove told the fol-
lowing story:
He said he was employed on a govern
ment vessel, and that the vessel was or
dered to Boston. He said he would send
for me, but he never did so. and I heard no
more Of him until I read in the newspapers
last September that he was i'll in Califor-
mia. I wrote to him. but received
swer. His father came to see me and said
me home and care for me. I said I would
not go. because he the father, had said
that the son couldn't marry me, and had
warned me not to marry him, as he was a
pauper. He said II did marry he would
make my life miserable. Because Of his
fathers opposition. we were married Sc
cretly.
In March Of this year Mr.. Robinson,
his lawyer, called me and tried to get
me to go home and live with my husband
would not agree to any such course. af-
ter being deserted for four years. wrote
Mr.. Coiegreve several letters later, but
he never replied.
Willing to Give Her a Home.
Mr.. Colegrove told the court that he had
been sent to Boston by the government
and thence to Washington and afterward
to California, where he was taken ILL.,
Since then, he said. he had been to Homo
lulu and the Philippines. He had been i'll
in both places, he said He asserted that
he was willing to take his wife to CIeve-
land with him and provide her with a
home. He told the court he was living
with his father at Bath Beach. just below
New York city
Mrs Colegrove's counsel wanted the hus-
band placed under bonds to provide for the
wife, but the court said this could not be
done. Magistrate Cornell thought that
Mrs. Colegrove would be provided for IL
she went with her husband and lived with
him. He therefore discharged the defend
ant
Mr. Russell Colegrove Is we'll known In
Washington. He formerly lived at 18th
and r streets. He u about thirty Ave
years Of age, while his wife Is said to be
twenty-three. Mr.. Colegrove. with others
formerly conducted a pleasure resort ON
the lower Potomac He left washington
several years ago to engage In the trans
Pacific transportation business.