The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-11-05
WIFE DENIES CHARGE
Mrs. Lord Says She Did No Wrong
With Negro Coachn1an.
CALLS HUSBAND A BIG COWARD

Connecticut Woman Will Fight Di-
vorce Suit to Last Ditch by Naming
Friends of His-"Drugstore Woman
In Bridgeport" Mentioned.
Bridgeport, Conn, Nov. 5.--"My hus-
band says that 1 was guilty of miscon-
duct with our colored coachman. My
husband lies.
"He says that he will shoot both Har-
ry Cameron and me on sight. He
won't. He's too big a coward
Ellis is the sole guilt He tried to
lure me into compromising spectacles
with the negro so he could get di-
vorce and run off with another wom-
an that he loves. He has ruined my
life-and so, besides the coward and
liar, he's a scoundrel too"
Sitting in her beautiful home at
Trumbull, Mrs. Augustine Lord, whose
husband, Henry j. Lord, has just
brought suit for divorce against her
upon most revolving charges, gave
forth this plain denial of every accusa-
ton.
She will fight the suit for divorce
to the last ditch. She'll do more, she
says, and the more will be very much
more, for when she has proved her
innocence she declares that she will
prove her husbands guilt and make
him abhorred of even the limited num-
Der of persons who, she says, still re-
main his friends.
Hes Just Initiating Hartje."
GAS for Harry Cameron, the coach
man, he's just plain colored boy from
the south. My two faced husband has
sought to pose this poor boy and me
in another Hartie case simply because
he hasn't enough inventiveness to
trump up a scheme of his own. If the
Hartje case hadn't appeared in the
newspapers he would not now be suing
me for divorce upon an imitation of
the last scandal he remembered read
| ing of.
"That man hasn't one thing against
mep' she cried. Nothing but one let
ter that l wrote to Harry telling him
not to quit work because the rest of
| the servants were talking about us.
| That is the only thing, and that l
don't care about-only my husband
stole it from my writing desk to make
evidence when 1 had decided not to
send it to the coachman after all.
"Just one idea has Henry Lord had
in his mind for the last three years,
and that idea is to get rid of me.
There's his love for the drug stole wo-
man in Bridgeport that will hinder
that scheme some, ] guess, and there's
the girl in Stepney that he used to Wis
| it-that will hinder him some more.
"That Drug Store Woman"
1.-THE relations that exist between
that colored boy and me are the rela-
| tons of the mistress and the servant.
My husband hired the boy himself last
year at the end of the Greenfield horse
show. He recommended him because
he knew horses so web, and then, with
the Hartje case in his mind, it sudden
| ly occurred to him that he could stop
the claim l was soon going to make
for separation and alimony by arrang-
ing what would look like scandal.
HE urged me to drive oftener with
Harry and along unfrequented drives.
He tried every way he knew to foment
a scandal He even told lies about
me and Cameron in Bridgeport restau-
rants and hotels.
"And all the time he knew was in
| nocent and all the time he was making
me the shame of going to theaters with
him and that drug store woman or be-
coming his intermediary in the candy
gifts he made to the Stepney girl
Last January he was gone two
months to Kansas City, and after leav-
/ ing me alone that length of time he
came back and told me the funny ad.
venture he had with a woman on the
train.
"Was Never Alone With Negro"
GAS a matter of fact l never was
alone in the house with the negro while
he was away During the whole time
of his last disappearance Mr.. and Mrs.
| Robert Paterson of New York were
with me, and / have been equally as
well chaperoned on all other occasions.
| Henry Lord and | We're married
| five years ago, and l ought to have
known better. But I was only twenty
then, and / was pitifully susceptible.
He never cared for me. He had a for
tune of about a quarter of a million.
/ guess he thought my little $4,000
dot was great deal more or the serv-
/ ice would not have occurred.
| Anyway he never liked me-nor !
him-much from the very start. And
for the last half Of our married life he
has been straining every atom OF his