Evening journal., 1906-09-15
HUSBAND SPENT
ALL THE MONEY J,
Pathetic Story Told By New
York Woman in Divorce
Suit
HER FORTUNE WAS USED UP

NEW YORK. Sept. 15.-Assertlng
she had been ruined by the extrava-
sance Of husband. Mrs Emma Frick,
a bewitching blonde, who Is suing her
husband for divorce, and now living
with friends in No. 331 West Forty
fifth street. told how in four years
she had lost jewels. equipages and
other luxuries. and how she had re-
oently been compelled to work for her
living in a department store for SIS
a week. Although her story was filled
with pathos the plucky woman added
when she had finished, But / suppose
/ IL will all come right in the end and
| shall branch out anew" If looks are
her fortune, as it goes in the story Of
the millSmdid, Mrs. F'rick viii soon be
back in her social position with her
mother, Mrs. J. c Peterson, who is
prominent in Baltimore society
Charles V. Frick the pretty woman's
husband. first brought a divorce suit
against his wife. alleging that she had
been untrue to him. He named as CO.
respondent a man whom Mrs. Frick
says she has seen only once. Under
standing that her husband sought to
divorce her Mrs. Frick through her
lawyer. William Greenthal Of No %
Chambers street, retaliated By bringing
a motion for alimony and counsel fee
The case viii come up tomorrow be-
fore Judge Newburger. Mrs Frick
said that she had already brought her
husband before Magistrate Moss WITH
the idea Of getting enough money from
Frick TO help support her but as he
drought suit for divorce the case was
taken out of the magistrates court
After being divorced from Frank IT.
STERLING. her first husband Mrs. Friclx
then Mrs. Sterling went To live in At
llantc city. There she met Frick, ana
was charmed by his good manners and
his clever conversation. Ia August.
1902. she was married to Frick. She
said yesterday that her life for a year
was very happpy and She never
dreamed that she would have to regret
the union. but as she saw her money
and Jewels go she became despondent.
She says she spent more than $1,000 IN
an attempt To place her husband in
the hotel business. Her first husband
had been manager of the Stag Hotel. in
Baltimore. and she had learned some
thing about the business Several
months ago Frick left her. and she was
forced to get a position In a DEPART
ment store i'm Atllntic city. For two
months. Mrs lrick said. She worked
ten hours day 10 make enough to
live on. ana even at that she edrned
only enough To pay for the necessities
OF life. Then came a whisper down
to Atlantic city that Frick had found
a position in this city and was earning
/ Si25 month. Thinking that he could
| allow her some money, she came here
. and then discovered that he was work
ing for the Mercantile Lunchrooms as
manages.
As her jewels were in pawn she
r wrote TO her mother who. though
! angry with her for having married
, Frick, consented TO take the diamonds
: out of pawn. but the horses aud car
riages were lost, as they were sold out
right Mrs. Frick said her husband 1.
2S years old, and that had only work.
ed eight months in the four years sh,
had been married to him. They haC
lived upon her money. and when tha
y was all spent she said F'rick left her
Frick is the son Of naval officer. Hor.
ace e. Frick. who is dead.
l. Although Mrs f'rick scanned he
=. bare fingers which once blazed viii
r jewels and saw poverty staring her n
the face, she still enteriains a hon,
that she viii soon be living in the sam,
y luxury she did I'VE years ago. She Sal,
l. yesterday that her husband had il
, treated her. and she was glad To IN
rid of him. ana that even the boardin,
u house in which she was living temno
T. rarily on Forty-Hfth street was bette
j than life Of luxury with man sh
could not get along with.
The fricks for part Of the tim
e they We're nnrried lived In an apart
W nent n No. l42 West 144th street
Ia They spent most Of their time there ii
!, the winter and ia the summer the
- left for Atlantic city In answer I,
y. her husbands accusation that she Ia,
been untrue to him. Mrs. Frick retail
ated by saying that he had been init
i. mate with a girl from Philadelphia
" whom she said he knew befare Fricl
and she met 1t is case of beln
at the bottom OF the ladder Tor I
J. while," Mrs. friek said hut it viii al
I'd come right IN the end"