The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01
FROM FRANCE TOSUE HUSBAND
TROUBLES or THE WHEELOCKS
AIRED IN COURT.
They Parted by Agreement Two Years
AGO and She Went AbrOad-His Letters
Grew Cool and she Returned, She
says, to Find Him Living With Another

SE6W NUUi UNI sflo IsNt"htu' '''o
Says, to Find Him Living With Another
The dissensions Of much separated
family are now occupying the attention
Il the Supreme Court. Augustus ID.
Wheelock, one of the agents OF the New
York Life Insurance Company, with an
ONCE at 80 william street, is the head OF
the family. He is living at the Hunting
don apartment, 2ls West 18th street, and,
according to his wife, he and Mrs. Bald
win are known there as Mr.. and Mrs.
Wheelock.
Mrs. Wheelock herself is at hotel, hav-
inx lust returned from Paris. Her two
daughters, with one of whom, it appears, she
isinot on the best of terms, are in France.
Mrs Wheelock is here to prosecute her suit
for separation on the ground OF cruelty and
assertion. Yesterday Justice Greenbaum
made an order allowing her $40 week
temporary alimony and $500 counsel fee.
The Wheelocks we're married on Jan
~ 1884, at Kenosha. Wis, and have wo
children, Eva, aged 81, and Lila, aged Is.
They lived at Rutherford, n. j., till April,
{ 1eps, since when they have not been together.
According to Wheelock, his wife, who was
born In England, entertains strong aver
alan to America and Americans. At any
rate. whether, as no says, because she
refused to live here or as she says, because
sho was i'll and needed change OF scene
and air, 1t was mutually agreed in April,
1a0s that she should go to France and take
the children with her. She went to Rouen,
and Wheefock sent her regularly $500
month or more.
Mrs. Wheelock, in her affidavit, says that
for a while her husbands letters were
afectionate. In July, however, she got
letter asking her to stay in France for at
least two wears. She replied with requests
Tor moro money, and he kept putting her
ID. n s.
In December, 1908, Mrs. Wheelock says,
she received letter couched in cruel
and unkind' language, telling her that
he did not wish to see her again. In subse-
ouent letters she learned that he had sold
the furniture and was living in bachelor
spartments.
Mrs Wheelock returned to this country
On April 49, She called at Wheelock's
of8oe and was told, she says. that he had
no accomm odation for her and that she
had better return to France. She refused
/. and traced him to the Huntingdon where
she found. as she says, tina. IT, one en o. Mn fne
Accompanied by her lawyer Mrs. Wheel
ook invaded the apartment and found
Wheelock and Miss Baldwin dining to-
In her application for alimony Mrs.
WbeeIock estimates her husbands income
at from $4,000 to $l2, 900 year, and says
that their household ex penses always ran
up to six or seven thousand She asked.
To support her, demands Mrs Mheelock
submitted a number OF the letters sent to
her BY her husband while she was IN France
Ono Of them, dated July Q, 1903, Is addressed
to MY dear little wife, and winds up Win
love to the children, and with lots OF love
and kisses, from your ever loving husband
In a letter of Dec. 3, 1903 ne wrote that
he would allow her $3.50 month in the
future. He added:
sThis amount or more / will always
send, so long as you properly conduct
yourself-you know what | mean. Other.
wise I will stop 1t at once. II
the terms I am making with you are not
in every way satisfactory you must take
can afford to make. If at any time you
desire divorce you may have one without
opposition on my part. provided 1t involves
no expense to me; at present l am IN
different to the matter. as l have no de-
sire to marry. l have had all ! want IN
Il prefer to keep this matter entirely
between ourselves, at least for the present,
+ and IL will never be mentioned by me. My
object in this is that 1t might rect 100
might become known ." shall provide
for you and Lila in my will and for Eva i :
and will try to keep up my insurance for
your benefit
kind, but fear the love has all gone, never
TO return. We must not judge one another
too harshly, but we each have the privilege
Of asking ourselves as many questions
as we wish, and try to discover where the
fault is. Had my life over again, or even
the past few years, l would have done very
differently. but it is too late now, and l
A7ortnight later Mrs. Wheelock received
another letter addressed to My dear
Lyddie," her name is LYDIA and reading
sThe sooner we understand one another
the better. If you attempt TO crowd me,
You will gain nothing by it. If you borrow
money to come over here, it will never be
paid by me = / may have been too
severe on Eva. l am happy to learn that
things are as you say regarding her, and
take back all that l have said about
her. am desperate for money. l don't
want to see you, ana wont see you even
In other letters Wheelook refers con,
tinualy to his lack Of money. In one dated
Dec. 2S, 1903, he wrote:
II am up against it hard All
want Is 70 DE Ie1t alone. dlii not Il III CCih,
panion for anv one. l am cross. grabbed
and unreasonable. You and ! could not be
in the same house for long, know without
fnsny uuarrels. You know what am when
/ am short of money. There is no reason
why should ruin your happiness. My
own is entirely gone. am slave to drink,
and while n not now drinking and hope
!, never to do SO again, have no great con-
fidence in myself and almost any little try
ing event. either personal or in business
way. is apt to make me orea * out, Go
can. but leave me alone. You can't help
me now. l must work it on. for myself
don't write lot of letters. Just leave me
alone. am no good and no one knows it
better than do, a nd if you ever run across
{ . real good man whom you think you could
Sc happy with, take him, for I know you
would never be happy with me. Eva am
not much Interested in, guess she is
pretty useless. Lila ! feel differently
toward. for know she cares for me.
Wheelock's defense is denial that he
has iii used his wife, and a counter claim
for a separation on the ground of his wife's