The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01
FROM FRANCE TOSUE HUSBAND
TROUBLES or THE WHEELOEkS
AIRED IN COURT.
They Parted by Agreement Two Years
/. Ago and She went AbrOsd-Iiis Letters
Grew Cool and She Returned, she
, Says, to Find Him Living With Another

1890
= The disse asions Of much separated
family are now occupying the attention
OF the SUPP eme Court. Augustus d.
Wheelock, one of the agents of the New
York Life Ins urance Company, with an
Office at o. william street. is the head OF
the family. Ho is living at the Hunting
don apartment, 2ls West 1l2th street, and,
according to his wife. he and Mrs. Bald
win are known there as Mr.. and Mrs.
Whaalock.
Nrs. Wneelock herself IL at a hotel. hav-
ing lust returned from Paris. Her two
daughters, with one Of whom, 1t appears she
In not on the best Of terms, are in France.
Mrs. Wheelock is here to prosecute her suit
for separation on the ground OF cruelty and
desertion. Yesterday Justice Greenbaum
made an order allowing her $40 week
temporary alinOny and 5000 COUNSEL fee.
The Wheelocl.s were married on jan
20, 1884, at Kenosha, Wis. and have wo
children, Eva, aged ii. and Lila, aged ID.
They lived at Rutherford, n. j., till April,
1908 since when they have not been together.
According to Whe clock, his wife, who was
born in England. entertans strong aver
sion to America and Americans At any
rate. whether, as he says, because she
refused to live here, or as she says, because
she was ill and needed a change OF scene
and air, it was mutually agreed in April,
1908, that she should go to France and take
the children with her. She went to Rouen'
and Wheelocl sent her regularly 500
month or more.
Mrs. Wheelock in her affidavit, says that
for a while her husbands letters were
affectionate. In July. however, she got a
,t.i,. Lart Co. CT n France
least two years. She replied with requests
for more money, and he kept putting her
of.
In December, 1903, 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
apartments.
Mrs. Wheelock returned to this country
on April 49, She called at Wheelock's
Office and was told, she says, that he had
no accommodation for her and that she
had better return to France. She refused
and traced him to the Huntingdon, where
she found, as she says, that one OF the
apartments was occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
A. d. Wheelock.
Accompanied by her lawyer, Mrs. Wheel:
ock invaded the apartment and found
Wheelock and Miss Baldwin dining to-
gether. , NJ,
Wheelock estimates her husbands income
ut from $4,000 to ST., 900 a year, and says
that their household expenses always ran
I'D to six or seven thousand. She asked,
therefore, for at least s63 week aiimony. .,.
submitted a number of the letters sent to
her by her husband while she was in France:
One Of them, dated July 8, 1903, is addressed
to my dear little wife, and winds up With
love to the children and with lots OF love
and kisses from your ever loving husband"
In a letter of Dec. 8, 1903, he wrote that
he would allow her $50 month in the
future. He added:
This amount or more | will always
send, so long as you properly conduct
yoursef-you know what mean. Other.
wise l will stop it at once. II
the terms am making with you are not
in every way satisfactory, you must take
/ can afford to make. If at any time you
desire a divorce you may have one without
opposition on my part, PROVIDED IT lnvolves
no expense to me; at present am m
sire to marry. / have had all want in
II prefer to keep this matter entirely
between ourselves, at least for the present,
and it will never be mentioned by me. My
object in this is that it might direct too
might become known - shall provide
for you and Lila in my will, and for Eva IT
and will try to keep up my insurance Tor
your benefit.
sMy feelings toward you are kind, very
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
am growing old. Your husband
fortnight later Mrs. Wheelock received |
another letter addressed to MY dear
Lyddie," (her name is LYDIA and reading |
An .Rr fr,' sooner We understand one another
you will gain nothing by it. If you borrow
money to come over here, it will never be
paid by me = l may have been too
severe on Eva. I am happy to learn that
take back all that have said about
her. / am desperate for money. l don't
want to see you, and won't see you, even
II you come to New York"
In other letters Wheelock refers con-
tinually to his lack Of money In one dated
Dec. %. 1903, he wrote:
II am up gainst it hard. All I
want is to be left alone. am not mt com,
Ianion for any one. am cross, era bbed
and unrea sonable. You and could not be
many qlarres. You know what am when
] am short of money. There is no reason
why l should ruin your happiness. My
own is entirely gone am slave to drink,
and while a m 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 brea X out. Go
ahead, sis. Have as good time as you
can, but leave me alone. You can't help
me now. must work it out for myself
and prefer to live alone. - Now
don't write lot of letters. Just cave me
alone am no good and no one knows it
better than do. and if you ever run across
o real good man whom you think you could
he happy with, take him. for l know you
would never be happy with me. Eva Lam
not much Interested in. | guess she is
pretty useless. Lila l feel differently
toward for know she cares for me-"
Wheelock' : defense is a denial that he
has i'll used his wife. and a counter claim
for separation on the ground OF his wife,
conduct toward him. He sets up that he
makes not more than $4,000 a year, and
cannot afford to allow his wife more than
half of that sum. He speaks of tho New