The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-04-24
SEVERE BLOW
TO HUSBAND.
wife Of Physician Cots Decree
for Divorce Reversed.
PUT RIVAL TO FLIGHT.
Chains Doors Agalant Lawyers and Then
Brings Suit for Alienation o, Affection
Of Her Spouse.
PUT RIVAL TO FLIGHT.

New York, April 24.-They were "a stren-
uous hours, those between o'clock y. m.
Monday and o'clock y. m. Tuesday. for
Dr. w. ii. Walker. a wealthy physician
with big practice. who lived--or did live
up 20 one day ago-in handsome house
at l51 West Ninety-third street.
DR.. Walker was put 10 rout by a wife
whom he thought divorced for six months.
but who returned and with the aid of
several private detectives and two police
men from the West One Hundredth street
police station. succeeded in asserting her
rights.
BY clever piece OF strategy she got
into the house, which was locked and
barred against her. and, up to last night,
she still held the fort All night Monday
the house was under siege, and counsels
OF war were in progress, through law
yers who wer telegraphed for at midnight
AS they failed to patch up a truce, hos
tilities were renewed at sunrise and con-
tinued through the day, Mrs. Walker
being victor.
DECREE REVERSED.
DR.. Walker got a decree of divorce
six months ago The suit was tried be-
fore Justice wimot NJ Smith, in Brook
lyn. Mrs Walker, who left her husband
before the suit was brought, was not at
the trial. She succeeded a few days
ago I'm having the decree set aside.
Accompanied by two private detectives,
Mrs. Walker went OF her husbands home
on Monday night to assert her rights.
Armed with Justice Dickey's decree. she
waited in a dark corner OF the hall while
Robert J. Cromie. a detective, rang the
bell. A woman, said by the detective and
Mrs. Walker TO be Mrs. Lillian ID. Kline.
opened the door. There was brief
struggle and Mrs. Walker marched In.
The other woman fed.
While detectives were placed on guard
outside Mrs. Walker established herself
within. At midnight DR.. Walker and his
lawyer appeared and demanded admission.
The door was locked and chained. FL
nally Mrs. Walker consented TO let the
men in for a parley. Her lawyer was
telegraphed for. and for two hours there
was discussion. Then DR.. Walker and his
lawyer retreated.
Mrs Walker sat up all night, fearing to
be taken by surprise. while the detectives
guarded the outer door. At sunrise DIR.
Walker came with two vans. Mrs. Kline,
armed with a bill of sale for the furni-
ture, appeared too, and. forcing admis-
sion. workmen began TO dismantle the
rooms. Hurry calls were sent for REIN
forcements and two policemen responded
Half the furniture had been removed then.
Trouble between Mrs Walker and Mrs.
Kline was only prevented by the detec-
tiyes. After a wordy battle of an hour
Mrs. Walker again put DIR. Walker to
rout. The house looked as though IL had
passed through a cyclone.
n No In shn
Of detectives, Mrs. Walker went TO the
West Side court TO obtain warrants for
her husband. charging him with abandon
ment. The magistrate had not arrived
and she FASTENED back 20 the house,
where she spent the day.
SUIT FOR ALIENATION.
Mrs. Walker has brought suit against
Mrs. Kline for $4,000 for alleged aliena-
ton of her husbands affections Mrs.
Kline Is remarkably handsome blonde.
She is a rich young widow and resides
with her mother at One Hundred and
Fifty-seventh street and the Boulevard
Before Mrs. Walker left her husband
last fall she upbraided him for alleged at
tentions to Mrs. Kline, who was pa
tent. After a quarrel Mrs. Walker went
to board at the home OF DIR. stephen II.
Ten Eyck at l3s West Ninety-fourth
street She is gifted painter. and again
took up her art. expecting 10 begin a
professional life.
Last October her husband sued her for
divorce. Upon the ground that there had
been colusion to entrap her and gain
evidence against her, Mrs. Walker sue
ceeded in having the divorce decree set
aside.
DR. Walker is prosperous. Tie is widely
known and stands high I'm the medical
profession Mrs Walker is woman
OF unusual culture and is strikingly beau
tiful. There is only one child, Harry.
II years DID, who has been living with
his father.
The divorce suit will be retired. and
Mrs. Walker will make vigorous de-
fence. The day she was served with the
divorce papers I'm the former case she was
stricken I'll and was sent to the Presby-
terian hospital. where she remained for