The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-04-02
ROMANTIC MARRIAGE
ENDS TN SEPARATION
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Bailey
Reported EStranged.
HUNTING ACCIDENT RECALLED
Were on Summer Trip in Adirondacks
When Both Were Injured by Same
Bullet, Fired by One of Their Com
paniOns at Supposed Deer.

NEW YORK. April When Charles F.
Bailey, son OF the head Of the Philadel-
phia firm Of Bailey, Ranks & Biddle. re
turned from Nice last month with the
body OF his mother. who died abroad, he
was met at the steamship pier by a ness
enger who told him that his wife. who
was Mrs. Selma COe Kerr. before her
marriage to him, wanted TO see him at
once at the home OF her mother. Mrs. E
Frank Coe, at COS Fifth Avenue
air. Bailey went at once to the place
where his wife was staying. There was
brief interview. at the end Of which Mr.
Bailey left the house. Mrs. Bailey then
went back 20 her own apartments in the
Bolkenhayn. at Fifth Avenue and Fifty
eighth Street. while her husband went
back 10 Philadelphia. They have not met
since II IS said. and whatever CORE
spondence they have carried on has been
through II. ID. Hotchkiss. Of - Nassau
Street, who is Mrs. Bailey's lawyer
The marriage OF Mr.. Bailey and Mrs.
Kerr occurred under the most romantic
circumstances. In September 1900. they
were in a hunting party which was at the
ledge Of Holloway COe, Mrs Kerr's
brother. near the Tahawus Club in the
AdirOndacks. Mr.. Bailey had been pay
ing attention 10 Mrs. Kerr. who was the
widow Of Chauneey F. Kerr, for some
time, but there had been no announce
ment Of any engagement, and none was
believed TO exist
Din
went out after deer. Mr. Bailey. Mrs.
Kerr, and a guide made up one party.
Dr. Charles T. Dade OF GO East Fifty
sixth Street. who was a guest in a
neiShhoring camp. was out with another
party Mr.. Bailey wore a reddish brown
she citing jacket and while seated on z
runway with Mrs. Kerr was mistaken for
a deer by DR.. Dade The doctor fred AZ
Bailey and the bullet struck him in The
small OF the back. was detected and en-
tered Mrs Kerr's thigh. smashing a bone.
u was with the greatest difficulty that
Mrs. Kerr was carried back to the Lodge.
Physicians were brought from New York
ana they found il necessary 10 amputate
the right leg Mrs. Kerr's courage when
told that she would lose her leg was ad-
mirable. The guides blamed Dr. Dade
Tor the acciden-. asserting that ever since
ne entered the woods he had been ready
10 shoot al anything that appeared Thcv
said that IL was disease with which anna
teur hunters were often afflicted
Mrs. Kerr and Mr.. Bailey who was also
quite severely wounded. we're brought
back 10 this city. Mrs. Kerr went 10 the
home Of her mother. 66S Fifth Avenue.
and Mr.. Bailey went 10 a hospital MIR
Bailey was out in short time and after
ward he was almost constantly al the
home OF Mrs. Coe
The accident strengthened the friend
ship between Mrs Kerr and Mr.. Bailey.
and a few weeks after the shooting their
engagement was announced The wedding
took place al Mrs. Goes home although
some time after her marriage Mrs Bailey
went back to her apartments in the Bol-
kenhayn.
Friends OF the couple profess to be ver-
much astOnished at the news that they
have separated As a matter OF fact no
one but a few intimaJes OF Mrs Bailey
knew anything about the matter. No
steps for a legal separation had been
taken. and IL is said that none will je
taken
Two months ago Mr.. Bailey was sum
moued abroad by the illness Of his mother
at Nice. II was during his absence that
Mrs. Bailey is said 20 have made discov-
cries which led her TO her determination
not 10 live with her husband again It
Was in order 70 prevent him coming 10
her own apartment that Mrs. Bailey went
10 her mothers home and sent for her
husband to meet her there.
Mrs. Bailey's father was f. Frank Coe,
who made a fortune in the fertilizer tus-
mess. She inherited 81 600 600 from nIl..
Her first husband. Chauncey r. Kerr, was
also "A man OF wealth