The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-28
AFFECTIONS ARE HIGH PRICED
Because William LncIen DriBk-
water Carey Takes Unto
Hiinselfa Wife He Must
Face Damage Suit.
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the coast Of England, has Travelled sew.
eral times around the world, lived II
every CLINE to be found on the glob'
and has established temporary abode
In half OF the lands upon this earth
only TO be served with q 100000 breach
Of Dromist suit In the quiet and peace.
ful city of Oakland. The suit was hled
In the superior court Of this county late
this nftrnoon. ID being brought In ths
name OF Lcona Bonne, who does q
"hying trapeze" act In Chicago theaters
that need that particular kind of at
| traction.
II " true that 100000 Ia a rather
fancy figure TO place upon broken
promises ana injured affections, but
Leona Bonne insists that damages
should be awared In proportion 10 the
amount possessed by the defendant.
and 10 she specifies In her complaint
that William LIcien Drinkwater Carey
is possessed Of large estates and is
worth at least s2s0.Oc0, with further
prospects, including part IL not the
whole OF the Isle Of Man.
In this hlgh-priccd document Leona
Bonne further declares that Mr.. Carey
is the son Of Colonel Henry Carey OF
honor and distinction through the
CrImean war and that the coloners es-
tate is large and valuable.
The alleged broken promise OF mar
riage was given In 1901 In the windy
city Of Chicago where the traEize
artist still resides and after fearful,
broken- hearted. but mature and math-
ematical consideration she has come to
The conclusion that 100000 slice OF
that Isle OF Man estate would be about
the proper balm for all the agony she
has suffered from the fact that Mr..
Carey now has another wife, who is
living peacefully with him in his Oak
land home.
Miss Leona Bonne neglects TO men,
Hon In her complaint that she once be-
fore sued Mr.. Carey for breach OF
promise. at that time putting the sum
u her damage at $4,000 and Mr.. Car
ey says that he wonders II the price OF
her affections will increase with the
Years at that ratio and upset the the
,ry that time heals all wounds.
Miss Leona Bonne is still In Chicago
loing her trapeze act In order TO keep
warm amid the blizzards of the Windy
city, 80 that she is not able to tell her
,wn story, but between the complaint
IN the case of her attorney, +. J. Rus
'ell of this city, little OF her elevated
'omance can be secured.
According to her complaint, Miss
3onne met Mr.. Carey in Chicago in
300. She was performing before
ountless thousands at a Chicago thea
CT, and out Of those thousands came
William Lucien Drinkwater Carey to
ell her Of love that burned fiercer
md more deeply than the usual Chi
ago, practical workaday love. They
lere much together, she says during
'hich times he told her of the island
hat he owned or was going to own and
'anted her to share the sea- kissed
and with him and take all of his love
he thought the combination a good
ne and accepted, and then, she claims,
arey went to the island to prepare it
Or her coming. Somehow the love
OF tangled on the way, for Carey
Iarried, and drifting back to oakland,
sttled down.
1t Is true that the Carey story only
yrees with this torrid Chicago state
ient in the mere dates. Carey an ?
ounces that he met Miss Bonne in I
hicago when she was broke that
} helped her out of her trouble out of
ere sympathy, and then left her to c
'ntinue his journey to his old home, II
here he was married. 1
Miss Bonne would support her state p
ents by copies of number of letters t
mt to her attorney which she claims v
ere writttn by Carey to her. One q
as written on board ship and appar- a
tiy was mailed at Queenstown, It $
gins with MY Dear Leona," and tells t,
the writer's sickness and how lonely
|, had been at leaving her. He and a e'
land had been singing Bring Back =
Y 'Bonne' to Me"--a touching play W
ION her name, The letter was writ fl
n in February and the writer said II
at he would see her again IL July. F
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