The Washington herald., 1907-02-27

New York, Feb 2C-In answer to his
wife's suit for separation Harry 5. En-
sign, a banker, of 81 Nassau street. has
filed the most remarkable document in
the domestic infelicity history Of the Su-
preme Court It is a narrative Of sordid
romance and shattered ideals with chap
ters laid on both sides of the Atlantic.
Having sown the wind I have reaped
the whirlwind. 81, says Ensign. This is the
b husbands story of the sowing:
1t is London-at night. Harry Ensign,
the young New York banker, recently OF
Yale. in full evening toys, meets young
and charming maiden Call it Fate. They
are introduced by-Opportunity A smile,
nod. a greeting. The old, old story.
I was so completely captivated by her
extraordinary beauty and winning ways, ~
says Ensign, that Il few days acquaint-
ance suffced to convince me that l could
never live happily until she Belonged to
me and me alone.
Awakening After Honeymoon.
Il had deceived myself that by LIES
devotion I could so educate and purify
her mind that she would yet become a
woman whom any gentleman might be
proud to own as his wife"
And now for the whirlwind, as Ensign
describes it.
The beautiful Ida Elizabeth-the in
genuous coquette-became Mrs. Ida Eliza
beth Ensign in August, 1895. There was a
honeymoon-not the old shoe, rice. and
white beribboned kind, And then a rude
awakening.
Ensign learned that his wife was also
the wife of Ramsey Kennedy, of elias
gov She had not thought il necessary
10 get divorced. But so complete was
her second husbands fascination that he
determined 20 forget and rescue her from
herself
Tukes Her Into Best Society.
Il have maintained her in the best
hotels" said Ensign. both in this country
and abroad; I have introduced her 10 the
best society in England and America. and
have surrounded her with those refine
ments and those influences of Christian
life to which she in her early life had
been a stranger.
But she would have none OF it She
refused 10 live in America at all, al
though I did my best 10 make her happy
in many places and among others hired
her a country house in MOrTistOWn, where,
ut very large expense. I did my utmost
80 make il look like England but all 10
no avail; and finally yielding 10 her abso-
lutte demands, I moved our home and
household goods TO England, where, az
CarisbrOOke, in Shawford, I leased our
present home for fourteen years.
In spite of his efforts to please her, Mr..
D. rr-sF esaHr 4
ciety to which he introduced her. and.
with apparent WilfuIness, sought the
company of objectionable persons.
Objects to Her Cosmetics.
Continuing. Mr.. Ensign says: When
therefore, my wife, in following the in
c;ination of her mind. would try to
show it outwardly by the blackening
OF her eyebrows and the powdering and
painting Of her cheeks l did in fact re-
strain her. for when l came home nights
and found her makeup such that few
women would consent to meet her it
nearly drove me mad. This seemed her
chief amusement while we were living in
hotels.
There were brief respites in this weary
struggle, but they were few the an
swer sets forth. THE bewitching beauty
of her face and her soft and gentle voice
and winning ways We're but a mask con-
cealing underneath a temper which,
should she be even lightly crossed, broke
forth in the most uncomfortable bursts
Of passion, wherein she appeared to lose
her very reason.
And when on such occasions I would
take my handkerchief ard rub her eye
bTOWs and her cheeks and thus confront
her with the painted evidence Of guilt.
she would make an awful scene and
stamp and scream and rip her clothing
into shreds. This is the Hotel Plaza Incl
dent, of which she speaks in her COM
plaint"