Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-04
HARTJE CASE
Is ParaI!e!Ied by SenSa-
tiona| Suit Bridgeport.
Wealthy Suburban Resident Az.
plies For Divorce.
Says Wife Is FaithIess and Names
Coachman Correspondent.

t!onal divorce action. in winch there
are n.,l.N p:.r.tlltls 20 the Hart1e case
in pitts.,;i;ss i.;.@ been; iStituted IN The
supr- to-. ,"urt II Fairfield county by
Henry J. Lcr,i. i. wealthy resident OF
xix miles from this city. in
which he accuses his wife of intimacy
with their negro cOachman, Henry
Cameron Mrs Lord was Augustine
t..l;,nucl. Il South Carolina beauty, VINO
on their marriage brought Il consider
able fortune to the one already Owned
10y her husband.
The Lords are members of the Green
field Hill Country Club, have beer
known throughout the state among
the exclusive country homes OF wealthy
New Workers. and have exhibited d
string of thoroushhredS for several
wears. Their country home is one OF
TIE show places Of Trumbull, which
itself is Il colony OF rich people Mrs.
Lord is an exceedingly handsome
woman and eXcelS in horSemanshlp.
Mr. Lord left his home three weeks
ago. taking With him their siN-year-
old daughter. Lucy Johnson Lord. their
only child. and in his action for divorce.
the custody of the daughter.
Mrs. Lord occupies the handsome
country residence at Trumbul alon"
with the household servants and cam
eiun. The correspondent presiics over
thu. stable in which there are man.
"roOlns.
The liling OF the divorce action brings
to head the gossip ot the clubhou:'-
Of the neighborhood and Of the drawing
rooms. lii which, since last March. the
nan.s OF the beautiful society woman
and the cOaChnan have been linked
h. case reScmb:ed IL" Hartjc case III
more respects than the one in having
negro named as correspondent. As in
TIE lia~IJe case. the friends Of husband
and wife have taken sides. and consid-
erabe bitterness has arisen This is eS-
recially true in the several country
cluHs q" which husband and Wife were
members.
- high did the feeling run in the
INNS diate neighhorh"oG Of the Lord
HON, Wner it vas understood
TRAIT the at ti"n had been filed that there
We're threats of lynching the negro
correspondent These threats did not
materializo in even mild form. how
ever. and the coa"hman was allowed
to - and come from the Lord home
WitiIuut moleStation.
He is described as being tail anu
broad shoudered. exceedingly neat in
personal appearance and about GO years
old. He is well known in the district
because he has at various times been in
the employ Of ne-ighbprS ana was cS-
t"tned because IF his knowledge Of
horses. He is a light mulatto and holds
a'onf from the negroes of the neighbour
hood
Henry J Lord charges that his wife
has been intimate With the coachman
since March 10 last The scandal Of tho
Intimate It Citations between wife and
c"achman We're talked Of in the neigh
hoEnooG even before that date.
AT one OF the recent fairs of the
Greenfield Hill Country Club there was
consldcrabl" opposition To Cameron. :
entry as a driver in one of the exhibit
tom events. but eventually he was al
lowed to drive. 1t was brought by
those who opposed him that too de-
tcrmined Il stand might cause storm to
some time.
wrought up over his Suspicions that
ne determined to shoot both Mrs. Lord
and Cameron. His intimate friends.
among whom his trouble was well un-
derstood persuaded him that such a
step would do no good, and accomDIisn
only the bringing of disgrace on the
head Of his little daughter. of whom
II" Is very fond. They advised that
instead he satisfy himself with civil
action
1t is fact that during the annual
h"rS" show at the Greenfield Hill
country Club Mrs. Lord and the negro
coachman drove back and forth %
tle grounds daily in each others com
p"hE. and that on occasions of the
purchas" Of new horses to add to the
s'flnS she always asked the advice of
the negr" and had him look on as a
prospective purchaser
On IN" side of Mrs. Lord there are par
lsahs as violent rs those who have cham
plohed the husband in the stormy sum
hler Just past. Friends of the beautiful
woman characterize the charge as outra-
eeous and entirely without foundation.
lhey point out that the husband has
peer made unjustly suspicious by the fact
tllat me negro managed a string Of horses
MIS-. Lord showed at the various coun-
Try iairs and that. because of this, she
WIS brought into close relations with him.
l-ord himself has been an enthusiastic
ioi seihah since moving to Trumbull
shortly after their marriage in Arril. 1907.
~ was only during the last year that he
i"St interest in the local shows and when
'He unpleasant notoriety followed the en-
Try OF Cameron. the negro coachman.
as drlrer in the last show. Lord with
are" ana had nothing to do with the ex-
hibition
rom mat time a GOODNESS spranc I'D
between Lord and his wife. brought TO a
FOCUS hy his leaving her three weeks ago
anu the ming of the suit for absolute di-
Norce today
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