Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-04
WIFE DENIES CHARGE
Mrs. Lord Says She Did No Wrong
 With Negro Coachman.
CALLS HUSBAND A BIG COWARD

Connecticut Woman Will Fight Di- voree Suit to Last Ditch by Naming
 Friends of His-"Drusstore Woman In Bridgeport" Mentioned.
 Bridgeport, Conn.,, Nov. 4-"My hus- band says that was guilty of miscon- duct with our colored coachman. My husband lies.
 He says that he will shoot both Har- " Cameron and me on sight He won't. He's too big a coward.
 His is the sole guilt. He tried to lure me into compromising srectacles 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. Augustina Lord, whose husband, Henry J.. Lord, has just brought suit for divorce against her l upon most revolting charges, gave forth this plain denial of every accusa- tion.
 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.
 "He's Just Initiating Hartie."
 "As 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 Hartje 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 mel" she cried. "Nothing but one let ter that I 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 I don't, care about-only my husband stole it from my writing desk to make evidence when 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 store wo- man ill 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"
 "The relations that exist between that colored boy and me are the rela- tions 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 well, and then, with the Hartje case in his mind, 1t sudden ly occurred to him that he could stop the claim I was soon going to make for separation and alimony by arrang ing what would look like a scandal.
 He urged me to drive oftener with Harry and along unfrequented drives. He tried every way he knew to foment scandal He even told lies about me and Cameron in Bridgeport restau- rants and hotels.
 And all the time he knew I 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"
 "As a matter of fact I never was alone in the house with the negro while he was away. During the whole time of his last disappearance MT. and Mrs. Robert Paterson of New York were with me, and I have been equally as we'll chaperoned on all other occasions. Henry Lord and I were married ! five years ago. and I ought to have known better. But I was only twenty then. and was pitifully susceptible. He never cared for me. He had for tune of about a quarter of a million. guess he thought my little SGO.OOO dot was a great deal more or the serv- ice would not have occurred.
 l Anyway he never liked me-nor I him-much from the very start. And i for the last half of our married life he has been straining every atom of his