The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-26
A DIVORCE
PROFESSOR LIVED UP To
ADVANCED IDEAS.
His Views as to Marriage Led to His
Dismissal from Rockefeller Uni
versity and to Loss of Wife.

CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-Because DR.. os-
car Lowell Triggs, formerly of the n
versity of Chicago, practised he "ad-
vanced IDEAS on the laws of matri-
mony which he preached and which re-
suited in his being dismissed from the
university, his wife, 1t became known
yesterday, obtained a divorce from him.
The decree was signed Saturday after a
hearing at which were told incidents In
voIving the professor and young women.
DR.. Triggs's sociological and econo-
mic ideas caused a stir in the faculty
of the university in 1904, and Triggs,
who was an instructor of English, was
dismissed. He had announced he be-
lieved the present marriage laws all
wrong, and that because a man had
taken a partner for life was no reason
why his friendship for other women
should cease. Triggs had married Miss
Laura Sterrette McAdoo, a wealthy
young woman whom he sent to Paris
to study, while he remained in this
city. The wife at first paid no atten-
ton to the views expressed by her hus-
band, believing them to be vague
theories which he never would attempt
to reduce to practise.
When the wife's attention was called,
however, to the fact hat Triggs was
associating with other women, she OBJ
tanned the evidence which resulted in
1.-THE divorce. She also obtained the GUS
tody of her child Edmund. 6 years old,
and the court permitted her to resume
her maiden name.
The most sensational part of the tes-
timony given at the trial was In regard
to a dainty foot that Herman Kuehn, one
of the witnesses, testified he saw protrud-
ing from a quilt in the doctors room.
Kuehn said he went to the house in which
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who was to deliver a series of lectures In
the University OF Chicago. The witness
said he was told hat Crosby was in
Triggss office, and, going to the second
floor of the house, he knocked on the doc
tors doc There was no response and
Kuehn opened the door and walked into
the room.
What did you seer the witness was
asked.
well. I saw Triggs,' he replied. HE
was astounded to see me, and he STAN
mered that he thought the door was
locked. He was in deshabile, and he
seemed surprised that the door had been
left open, and when / saw his embarrass-
ment 1 withdrew from the room.'
Before leaving the room did you see
anything else?"
Yes. l saw n foot protruding from a
quilt on the sofa. There was a human
form under the quilt. and from the outline
1 knew 1t was the form of a woman. 1t
was a dainty foot and could not have
been that of a man"
"Was the foot uncladY'
"It was.'
Mrs. Triggs was not at the hearing. II
was said she was living in Paris, and her
deposition was read. 1t said that she and
Triggs were married January 6, 1899, In
Chicago. The husband, she averred. took
her to Paris and established her there. he
mapped out a course Of studies for her
and at the end OF the course she returned
TO this country. Her husband, she assert
ed treated her coldly, and finally induced
her to go back to Paris and take another
course of studies. In January, 1906, this
wife averred, she received word from 6
friend that her husband was paying de-
voted attention to another woman. She
caused an investigation to be made, will
the result that h began the suit fol
divorce.