The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-13
MRS. COREY ASKS FOR AN ABSOLUTE DIVORCE
CLAIMS THAT HER HUSBAND ABANDONED HER ABOUT
 MAY I, 1905.


 Unable to Say Whether Action Will
 be Fought--Report That He Will
 Consent to Decree and Settle an
 Independent Amount Upon Plaintiff
 She Asks Custody of Their Son.
 Rene, New, June 12.-Mrs, William Ellis Corey, wife of the president of the United States Steel corporation, fil- ed petition to-day in the second dis triet court of Nevada, at this place, for an absolute decree of divorce.
 The petition of Mrs. Corey recites that she was married to Corey on De- cenber 15, 1883, and that he abandoned her about May 1, 1905. She asks for a decree upon the ground of desertion, and also requests that the custody of their minor son be given to her.
 The petitioner has obtained three at- torneys of Reno to prosecute her case. Corey will be represented by Pittsburg and Nevada counsel. Sardis Summer 1 field, representing Corey, stated to-day that he did not know whether Corey would oppose the petition or not. It is currently stated that negotiations are in progress which will result in Corey consenting to the divorce and settling upon his wife an Independent fortune, Mrs. Corey is attended while in Reno by Corey's mother and sister. She de- clines to see newspaper men and pays no social visits.
 New York, June 12.-Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of direc- tors of the United States Steel corpora tion, said this afternoon:
 "The fact that Mrs. Corey has filed a suit for divorce will not affect MT. Cor ey's standing with the directors of the Steel corporation in any way"
 It was in December last that the arl- lnouncement was first made that Mrs. Corey, the wife of William Ellis Corey, who succeeded Charles M. Schwab as president of the United States Steel corporation, had left for the west for the presumable purpose of establishing a residence and beginning action for divorce.
 Before leaving her home it was said that Mir Corey settled $700,O00 on his wife and $300,O00 on his son, Allan w. Corey. Mrs. Corey came first to this city and stopped for some time at the Hotel Lorraine, where she refused to discuss her domestic affairs.
 Since Mrs. Corey's departure for Ne vada reports were circulated at ire quent intervals that MT and Mrs. Corey had determined to forget their troubles and come together again, and at one time it was said that the wife of the steel magnate had started east to joir her husband.
 The trouble in the home life of MT and Mrs William Ellis Corey first be- gan to be discussed by Pittsburg club linen and matrons In the representative social circles four years ago. when
 Swimming party was given by sev eral clubmen at Pittsburg. It was a - that party that MT. Corey is said tt have met Miss Mabelle Gilman, the ac
 tress and singer whose name has sinc' been mentioned frequently in connection with MT. Corey's. At that tfme Mis- Gilman was starring in the operettt 'The Mocking Bird"
 It was said that the public name in which the domestic affairs of tn Coreys were discussed would proven his reelection to the presidency of tn Steel Trust, but the directors re'electe
 him at the last meeting.
 The son of Mr and Mrs. Corey, eigh teen years old was taken out of schoc and told of the change of the home If e of his parents. MT. Corey left 1t op tional with the son as to whether h = would stay with him or live with hi Il mother. Young Corey championed hi
 mother and accompanied her west. was then that MT. Corey settled tn 1000 on his son.
 Mrs. Corey was a pretty but poor gil = of the Braddock valley when MT, Core
 fell In love with her. He was then
 clerk in the coal company of his unelt z B. B. Corey. He was poor, but ros
 rapidly both in the coal and steel ir l dustries, until he became one of tn y greatest factors in the steel industry 9 the United States. His fortune Is no q estimated at more than $10,000,000 HI t uncle. father, mother and sister al @ all standing solidly by the wife in til e trouble Corey's sister is now wit I Mrs. Corey in Nevada, = For more than year Miss Mabel t Gilman has lived abroad. When la' . heard from she was automobiling
 Italy, where she was arrested for TUT
 ming over a child. Her home in Par
 has been described as one of the mo ,r luxurious in the French capital.