The Cairo bulletin., 1905-09-21
MRS. DUKE WEPT
ON WEDDING DAY
MAID ALLEGES SHE TOLD HEP
THEN THAT HER HEART WAS
FRANK T. HUNTooNs-oRooM
KEPT WATCH ON HER.

New York. Sept 2O.-When James
Buchanan Duke. head OF Inc great
Tobacco Trust and posassor of a for
tune estimated a. $75.oooo0O. began
suit for divorce on Sept. ,, the
business and social world was amaz-
ei Even his close friends and bus
ness associates were at first unwilling
to believe that The one romance Of
- Tie had come To a disastrous
end.
They were not long left IN doubt,
but the real story of the events that
lei mp to the division OF this house
OF Duke was not told al the time the
suit was filed Il was moi revealed
until yesterday, when one OF Dukes
closest frierls eons ented to give the
facts as he learned them from the
millionaire plainhf
Frank T Huntoon is the man named
by Mr.. Duke as correspondent He is
sixty-oue years old and netting Of
grizzled veteran in The white lights
Of Broadway.
Mr.. Duke AYERS that he never once
had the slightest suspicion Of his wife
until July IA last. But enc or two Of
his friends were aware THAI she was in
the habit Of going our TO dine with
Huntoon. The two apparently made
/ latle effort 10 conceal the fact, for
they were seen many times In restaur-
ants Ii was on THAT day in July
that one Of Mr.. Dukes friends mus
| tered up courage to call on him at his
office in Fifth avenue and tell him OF
his wifes conduct 1t was a tragedy
| in the life Of the man who wooed the
woman OF his heart for eleven years
When Mr. Duke received the warn
ing about his wife ne was on the point
Of making a hasty business triF
iabr0ad He went on with his prepare
tons for the journey, hut arranged
with his personal counsel that hi.
wife should BIC watched The momen
he stepped off the ship Oh the ofhel
Idle he was in receipt Of a package b
cabIegrams, all Of the same purport
They told him of further alleged mis-
conduct on the part Of his wife.
Mr. Duke was informed that hi
lwife had gone to Saratoga, and that o.
| the same train and in the same q
was Frank 7. Huntoon, The TIVE
lived at the same hotel in separat
apartments. They went to the race
every day and were seen together cor
| tstantly In the restaurants at the n
aort,
A day or two after Mrs Duke ha
Eraturaed to her home at No II Yves
sixty eighth street she sent thi
I cable message to her husband.
4 trust that my conduct since 80
I have been abroad sufficiently meei
Z with your approval so that you vi
S call off the detectives who are houn
$ ing my footsteps =
!. After Mr. Duke returned fro
9 abroad Mrs Dukes personal mai
= &ea@ tlH4ttEA w so ~ tIE puhG N1lt
\ near Somerville. and ID is alleged 81
z made some startling revelations to ii
r millionaire concerning the conduct
y home
According to this maid. HuntoC
/ was sutton for The hand of Nj
n McCredy, as She was before her ms
: riage to Duke, for two years befo
4 this marriage following her aImo
+ literally to the altar He went wi
her to Philadelphia the day befo
y her marriage to- Duke, and on the wa
the maid says he impioral Mrs. N
Y Greedy TO give up her prospective mi
Y riage and give her hand to him
According to this maids story NJ
= Duke burst into tears in her DIRE
:" ing room Immediately after the nj
J., riage ceremony and exclaimed;
~ 7 have married one man and !
heart is given to another"
Mrs, DIXIE has made no answer
-. any Of her husbands charges.
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