The daily Republican., 1902-11-26
MAN BROKE
UP HIS HOME.
William Alexander, Formerly
of This City, Tells of His Pend
ing Divorce Proc eedings
HIS WIFE GOES WEST.
To Meet the Other Fellow in
Chicago and Then Sends
Back to Her Husband
For Money.

| William D. Alexander, Of West
Chester, wore smile for the tirsI
time last evening for many days
Domestic tranquility has been for
eign to him Tor four years. A pend
ing divorce suit is something abou
which the ordinary man would pre-
fer to keep mum, but not SO will
Alexander. 10 him it Is heaven
alter many mouths OF something
near to hades.
His wife has gone eff with anoth.
er man, and the strangest part OF
the incident is this: he assisted her
for reasons good and sufficient to
himself.
The story of Cupid's miserable
aim and its consequences is best
told by Alexander When boy he
attended the public schools and
gained sufficient rudimentary edu-
cation to acquire the trade of car
pentry. One fatal night he met
Virginia Hazard, q Wilmington
girl, who had been resident of
West Chester but a short tina And
~they We're wed, A little boy gracal
the home for short time and then
died.
William Wray. young stone.
mason, also of West Chester had
fondness for Mrs. Alexan ler AMI
he manifested it frequently. Scent
ing the'storm. AM as to avoid it,
Alexander brought his wife and
baby to Wilmington where he went
to housekeeping. But Wray fol-
lowed them.
Rather reluctantly. Alexander took
up the thread of the story here last
evening. 81 did my best for her. Her
home was not her idol. She left me
to come to West Chester where |
placed her in another home on South
Matlack street The little boy came
with her. One day l received tcIc-
gram TO return ut once. did soand
found her not in the home | had pro.
vlded but residing in East Bradford
township with Wray. We burleI
the baby and l forgave her. We
took fresh start, all to no purpose.
| resigned my position in Wilmington
and accepted u plac, in Cleveland,
OHIO, thinking to make her happy in
distant parts, away from bad mans
influences. We stopped there. |
say stopped for 1t was not living. 1t
was as ifWrly were in ourvery Eouse.
My wife was not backward in pro-
nouncing her infatuaLon for the
Stone mason. She expressed a pre-
ference for him, but thiHkiny to have
her live down her folly, l gave her
every attention which could afford
and which | could not.
"Wray turned up in Chicago,
from | know not where. He wrote
her to meet him and she appealed |
to mo for money to make the trip.
Acting upon the advice of my home |
folks, l liberated her and returned
with my little boy to the home of
my father, Isaac G. Alexander,
West Union street, West Chester.
heard from her after she arrived
in Chicago, with an appeal for fif-
teen dollars with which to return
But | knew she wanted the money
,or other purposes than that.
"William Wray has lived in my
louse..I have taken the clothes from
ny back, under her appeal tDr aid, !
% satisfy the cravings Of these two"
The detected husband was not de-
ected last evening as ho told his
tory to the newsmau. 1t was with
buOyanry that he un-
'urdened himself, with a full knowI-
dg3 that he was laying bare his
ne great failure in life. his initial .
venture, to all who
now him, and to many who do
lot, but he cut loose.
He has retained an ey- District At
Orney of West Chester as counsel
nd through him will make applica-
ion for absolute divorce at the
term Of Court. He assum-
8 full charge of his little four-year
Id son, but he desires to step from
nder the ban of prostitution with
which his wife has stigmatized his
ONE.