The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1907-09-26
SENSATIONAL
DIVORCE CASE
MRS. A. HART M'KEE WILL SOON
FILE HER SUIT IN
PARIS.
MANY WOMEN ARE INVOLVED
Her Father in Paris-Not Even the
Angel Gabriel Could Induce
Her to Wed Again,
She Says.
MANY WOMEN ARE INVOLVED

Paris, Sept. 24.-With no doubt re-
naming that Mrs. A. Hart Mckee is
about to sue for divorce, another and
the most sensational chapter Is to be
added to series of tragedies which
already involve men worth scores of
millions, and women whose beauty has
been famous on three continents.
Mckee is the second husband of the
former Mrs. Hugh Teyis, who now de-
mands her freedom, and it win be the
second time he has been divorced.
While his first wife, who was Miss
Lydia Sutton of Pittsburg, was suing
him he was named as correspondent by
Lawrence Phipps, who obtained a d.
vorce in Denver.
Quite as sensational as the divorces
was the marriage, less than three
years ago, of Mckee and Mrs. Tevis.
When Phipps obtained his divorce it
was confidently expected that Mckee
and Mrs. Phipps would be married.
Mrs. Teyis was engaged to Gerald
Hughes. wealthy lawyer of Denver,
and the day set for the ceremony was
only a few weeks off when she married
Tevis after two weeks courtship.
In six months she was a widow, just
in time to become central figure in
the Phipps Mckee scandal. With as
little regard as Mrs. Tevis had shown
for Hughes. Mckee turned to her from
Mrs. Phipps. They hurriedly sailed
tor Europe together in the autumn of
1904, and early in 1905 they were mar
ried in Philadelphia only few hours
after the decree freeing Mckee and
his first wife was signed.
Their Union a Love Match.
1t was purely a love match for Mrs
Tevis. She, as well as Mckee, had
millions. Defying the advice of many
of her friends who sought to dissuade
her from marrying Mckee, she said at
the time:
"One of the things that has prompt
ed me to hasten my marriage is that
wish to show the world that even in
the face of the stories published about
Harris cruelty to his former wife, /
still have perfect faith In him."
Now, among many serious charges
which will be brought against Mckee,
it is stated, cruelty stands foremost.
Mrs. Mckee will allege that he has all
but exhausted her resources, except
for trust fund upon which her father,
Col, BaXton of Knoxville, Tenn, insist
ed when she married Mckee. He will
be accused Of having threatened re.
peatedly to shoot her with a revolver,
which he kept on a dressing table, and
to have sworn at her in such a loud
voice that the concierge in the LAWYER
part of the house was alarmed.
In Mrs. MeKee's petition many
women win be named.
Mckee is said to have lost heavily
by speculation in Wall street and else
where but, according to the charges
to be brought against him by his wife
he made distressing scenes about such
trifii1g household accounts as the bill
for washing.
Her Father Is in Paris.
The arrival in Paris of Mrs. McKee's
( father, Col. Baxter, with his counsel
Judge Shields, has made certain what
was before little more than idle Cos
sip. Mrs. Mckee herself admitted
Monday that proceedings we're to be
brought
Her awakening to the fact that he
was defendant in a divorce sui
brought with it a heavy drain on hei
purse. 1t was understood that s300, 00t
was paid in lieu of alimony to Nc
KEGS first wife in order TO hasten the
signing Of the decree, but now it ap
pears that the proceedings afterwart
cost Mrs. Tevis s250.000 in addition Il
a like amount paid by E. Sellers Nc
Kee, her husbands millionaire father