Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-09
RELATIVES OF STEEL KING
COREY SIDE WITH DE-
SERTED WIFE
PATHETIC SITUATION
Father Says He Would Send His Son
to Prison If Story Is True-Uncle
6Iames Athletics and MIR. Carnegie
for corey's Actions.

Braddock Pa. Dec. Sin a modest
little home in this city the aged father
and mother Of w. Ellis Corey, presi-
dent of the United States Steel corpor-.
alton, are prostrated by the news that
their son practically confesses he
planned that his wife may apply for a
divorce and that he intends to marry
Mabelle Gilman. the actress.
Alfred A.. Corey, the father, is Is
years Of age. and has been for many
years tax collector of North Braddock.
Neither he nor his wife had an inkling
of any trouble in the family of his son
until yesterday, when he picked up a
Pittsburg paper.
Would Send Son to Prison.
"If these stories be true,'' said the
elder Corey, "if Ellis has agreed that
Laura be divorced in order that he
may marry the actress, then, were l
on the jury, would hold out to the
last to send him to the penitentitary."
The gray haired father is crushed.
Mrs. Corey, his sons wife, whom he
always called Laura" has his entire
sympathy He bitterly resents the al
legged assertion Of his son that his
wife does not love him. The elder
Corey says his sons wife helped her
husband to save, struggled through
with him on $40 a month, patched his
clothes, ETC.. and loves him still.
"And that's what Laura did," sob
bed the old man.
Blames Carnegie and Athletics.
J.SB. Corey head of the Corey Coal
company, has written his nephew a
lengthy letter in which a spade is
called a spade. ]. B. Corey gave w.
Ellis Corey his start. and the old oper-
ator is grieved that things are as they
seem now. j. B. Corey said:
II blame football, baseball, and An
drew Carnegie for the ruin of my
nephew. He always wanted to be
champion athlete, and this hurt him.
Then Carnegie put him where he is,
and it has ruined him. 1t ruined
Schwab before him. No young man
has right to be put in such place,
and on the head of Carnegie rests this
calamity, for it turned the head Of w.
e.. Corey, making him forget 10th God
and man."
Miss Ada Corey, who turned her
back on her brother, and went with
Mrs. w. Ellis Corey to Nevada, has,
~ lo u1luSISlOOu mere, given up lu0 lllG
income which had been given her by
her brother. She has announced that
she is with her sister-in-law to the end,
even if she has to return to teaching
school.
May Prevent Corey Divorce.
Pfttsburg, Pa, Dec. S.-William
Ellis Corey, president Of the United
States Steel corporation, will not dis
card his wife and marry Miss Mabelle
Gilman, the actress, if Pittsburg soci-
ETY. women under the leadership of
Mrs. Charles M. Schwab, wife of the
former president of the steel corpora
ton, can prevent It,
A movement has been stated to in
duce Mrs. Corey to return to Pittsburg
and fight every effort Mr.. Corey might
make to drive her from his home It
is doubted by some if Mr.. Corey made
a settlement with his wife by which
she received 100000, or any sum near
that amount If Mrs Corey decides to
fight she has been given abundant
assurance that she will be provided by
her friends with all the money neces-