The daily tribune., 1906-12-06
INTERESTING STORY OF
FORMER FLORENCE WOMAN

Begging the paramour Of her hns-
band to release him from the tolls Of
her wilful Vaccinations was the piti.
fui role filled BY Mrs. MyrA A.. Todd.
Of Long Beach. - testified TO yester-
day In her divorces proceedings Her
husband. Harry o. Todd, had become
enthralled with the superficial attrao.
tions Of Miss Rose Oliver. who was
then living At the Hotel Num- and
in the clash Of conflicting Intsyests
tho wife went to the wall.
Mr.. Todd is . travelling drspery
salesman for large firm and receives
$500 month sAlAry. and was conse.
qnently able to keep his wife In com.
Portable style. He had married Mrs.
Todd at Omaha in Nov. 1908. and,
after coming TO Long Beach to live.
established her in charge Of . beard.
/ 9 house. 80 that she might not feel
his prolonged absence 90 much All
went we'll until last year when Mrs
Todd noticed that her husband g
affections had perceptibly waned. She
had been In poor health and . trip
was made to Colorado. aud while
there Todd came out fatty and said
that he had fAlleI madly In love
with another woman, Miss Oliver.
and that he neither could or would
bauish the chsrmeI from his mind.
Thea began the time OF the wife's 8
greatest suffering. for beside being
in poor health. she was oompeile
to realize that much Of her husba d g
time was beirg spent with Miss
Oliver. Mrs. Todd finally decided
upon herioo measures to save her hus.
band. so that he might still be all
to her and her boy that he had been
in the past Shs went to the Hotel
Mum and called upon the woman
whose attractions threatened to dis.
rupt the Todd home. aud appealed to
Miss Oliver to cease associatiDg with
her husband.
Dollars and cents we're uppermoss
In the mind OF Miss Oliver, accord.
ing to the testimony. She said that
she was i'll ard that Mr.. Todd was
supporting her. and that without his
assistance she didn't know what she
would do. Then it was that ahe
Lumiliated wife reached q height Of
self abneRation seldom attained. II
only Miss oliver would cease Asso.
ciating With her husband Mrs. Todd
said that she would take tho Young
woman to her home and care for
her in her illness and support her
afterwards until she decided upon
what she could do to maintain
herself
The appeal fell upon deaf ears. and
Mrs. Todd WAS obi ged to return to
Long Beach with the additional grief
of knowing that she had scouIgsd
hersoif for nothipq
Iu Sskii Z for q dc toree Mrs. Todd's
attorney had sought to seouie only
s25 a month from Todd for the sup.
port Of the child. but Judge York
spoke with some indignation regarding
the smsllness OF the amount. He
said that he thought that si00 a
MONTH half Of Todd's sslsry-would
be reasonable enough. In as much Ms
the smaller amount had been asked.
and til, defendant had received no
notice Of any larger amount. he could
cot make the order covering more
than t25 1T this time. At any future
time. however, an application may
be made for an increase of the
amount.
Judge York made an order granting
TO Mrs Todd = divorce decree and Alfo
to the ownership Of the boarding ouse
and s25 q month alimony for the sup.
port Of the child.
The above clipping Ia from one Of
the Los Angeles. Gal. papers. Miss
her mother. three years Ego. conducted
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