The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-31
THIS HUSBAND
DUPED HER
Mrs. juIIett0 Clarke Sues Her
Fourth Spouse for $4,000.
DIVORCED THREE TIMES
Was Wife Of Three Very Wealthy Men
Previously, and Was Freed From
Them AL.

New York, Dec. g-Mrs. Juliette
Clarke, or to give her all her names. Mrs
Juliette Letitia Chiffon Tuttle-Wright-
Havens-Clarke. has brought an action
against her fourth husband for $4,000
damages.
Mrs. Clarke, who lives In beautiful
apartments at ls6 West Thirty-sixth
street. had been the wife OF three very
wealthy men before she became Mrs Au-
| gustus w. Clarke. Mr.. Clarke is connect
ed with the auction firm OF James p. Slo,
| in Liberty street. After divorcing the
| three husbands she met Clarke. He told
her he had been married in England, but,
according to Mrs. Clarke, insisted that
| his wife had died I'm 1901.
Don't think l would have married
man who had wife living IL / had
known it,. said Mrs. Clarke yesterday
In the suit for $4,000 brought through
/ her lawyers. Cantwell, Moore & Melon
| nell of 320 Broadway Mrs. Clarke makes
| four complaints. She declares that many
times between Jan /, 1902 and May $. OF
this year. Mr.. Clarke falsely represented
that he 81 single man and that his
wife. whom he had married in Liverpool.
| England, In 1899 was dead.
In her second complaint Mrs. Clarke
4 charges that relying upon these false
| statements made by Mr. Clarke she
married him I'm Westminster Chapel in
West Twenty-third street on March s
last
SEPARATED AFTER THREE WEEKS
1--WE lived together three weeks" said
Mrs. Clarke yesterday. And then kick
! cd him out of my house"
| In her last complaint Mrs. Clarke de-
clares that her future has been blasted,
her health shattered and that she has
been injured In body and mind, all TO the
! amount OF $4,000.
"In April last Mrs Clarke brought m
action for annulmeut of marriage, She
went to Europe and had no trouble, she
says, in finding her. husbands first Wife.
Clarke with her suit Shortly after her
return from Europe MIR. Clarke also
brought an action for annulment Of mar, r,
wife Is living. but he tries 10 explain mat
| ters ia this fashion:
"The plaintiff had been drinking intoXi-
| eating liquors In such large quantities
, and SO continuously that he had become
| dazed and thereby rendered unconscious
theerfrom, and that az the tlms s said mar, s,,,
| under the influence Of intoxicating liquor
and was dazed thereby and semi-uncon-
scious therefrom and was not then IN
possession Of all his mental faculties and
| aid not realize or understand, nor was ne
fully conscious OF the solemnization OF
SAID maFrlaEe. OF Nnd' ne Nas "'ll'S ~
permitting said marriage 10 be solem'
| mixed"
Mr. Clarke. through his lawyers stated
that he would fight his wife's suit.
This awful matter has broken me up
said Mrs Clarke We Yesterrdday tord NE ,bs, Thdi,,
first wife was dead Then. after We hac
been married. he told me that she wa
still living Did kick him outY ~
That was your fourth marriage" wa
asked.
FIRST MARRIED AT SIXTEEN.
1T was" she replied 81 was marrie'
National hank of Plattsburg when Wa
sixteen 10 was about that narrlas
that 7 hesitated least. MY people mar
rled me 10 Mr.. Futile They dld noi sN ,r
, The second husband was Robert e
Wright. OF Philadelphia. y millionaire. W
. was the wealthlest OF the four
> II was I'm love with Bob she said. =
, ! met him i'm Newport. He had so muc|
| money that he could not spend II all him
. self and his friends helped him. IL ha
, had the experience I have now ther
would perhaps have been no trouble.
I The third husband was John w. Ha
i, | vens.
y II don't know why married him, sal
Mrs Clarke Perhaps II was for senu
mental reasons He was a schoolboy low
) or of mine. I got n divorce from him
D Then met Mr.. Clarke. He was handsome
u do not believe that any sane ma
would treat woman that has done =
! much for him az have for Clarke In 10
way nc has treated me. But N woma