The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-30
TOOK DISGRACE TO
PROTECT HER
K|NSW0MAN
Mrs Meredith Confesses to Her
Husband to Save Girl
HUBBY SUES FOR A DIVORCE
Bride Declares Admission OF a violat.
ion Of Marriage Vows Untrue and
Made to Shield Relative.

NEW YORK. Oct. 30.-In a remark
able affidavit submitted to Justice AS
pinall In the supreme court, Brooklyn
Mrs. katherine Gress Meredith de-
cares that the confession OF quit
which she made to her husband when
he accused her of violation or her
marriage vows was untrue and that
she had accepted the disgrace to shield
a very near woman relative.
Her husband, Daniel w. Mereditho
the Hotel Touraine, Brooklyn, had
sued her for divorce, his grounds being
based on the confession she made to
him. The affidavit Of Mrs. Meredith.
who Is still bride, which was sub
United in her petition for alimOny and
counsel fees, says that she was given
her choice of saving her relative from
everlasting disgrace or shouderlng II
herself. and she chose the latter.
Mrs. Meredith in an affidavit filed In
the supreme court took oath that her
confession. which her husband says
was substantiated by diary Of hers
covering four years, was untrue. The
affidavit is the most remarkable legal
paper ever presented in the supreme
court In Kings county. Here Is what
the wife says in it:
Contrary to the advice Of my coun-
sci, cannot be led to say one word
that will bring disgrace upon mem
Der of my family. In this connection,
beyond the statement that owing to
the treachery of man, who shall be
nameless, at this interview of Aug.
Is, 1905, was led to tell my husband
| that had fallen. This was In order to
save another, although had been true
to him as wife. took the blame
upon myself then, as now, Of the
wrongdoing."
That interview between the young
woman-she is but twenty-seven-a
her husband on that evening in August
was like the tense situation at the eli
max of modern social drama.
But to her 1t was the climax In the
real drama of her own life. She says
she knew this kinswoman Of hers to be
guilty. That woman's exposure or the
destruction of her own happiness was
at stake. The woman in this most I'M
prosaic legal paper chose her course.
Her loyalty to her kinswoman made
her self sacrifice immediate. She was
living at that time with her husband,
man with an income Of $4,000 a
year as one of the managers of the
Stuyvesant Grain company, In the Ho-
tel Touraine in Brooklyn, the most
fashionable In that borough. She had
TO leave. She had to begin to earn
her own living again for the first time
in the six years since her marriage.
Mrs. Meredith had been stenogra-
pher. She returned to her trade. She
gave up the luxurious rooms In the
hotel for small room In small
boarding house on Schermerhorn street
Instead of the handsome allowance she
had been in the habit of spending, now
she had to make both ends meet ut q
meager salary.
Her marriage was love match back
III 1901. She was then a stenographei
in her native town, Columbia, Pa
Meredith came there on business and
became infatuated with her. She, too
loved him deeply. The sweethearts
were married, and the girl came III
to Brooklyn to live. She was hell
to her husband in his business, due u
her own business training. Together
she says. they prospered. She declares
now that she has made him the sue
cess in his business that he is.