Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-30
WATERVILLE.
C0MPLETEDEN|AL
By Mrs. Sturtevant Of
Husbands Charges,
Says Story Was Told to In
jure Her In Equity Suit.
Mr.. Ponsant Also Says He Has Been
Misrepresented.

Mrs. Lillian Fl. Sturtevant, wife Of
William II. Sturtevant of Marston av-
enue, called upon the Journal Saturday
/ evening and asked to be given an OPP
Il portunity to reply to some of the state
ments which have recently been made
regarding her and \. j. Ponsant OF
this city. Mrs. Sturtevant declared
positively that the published accounts
of her recent departure from home
were incorrect ana buscly So For more
than an hour the interview lasted and
Il below in substance and particular that
Il interview is given.
Most assuredly | want to check the
/ scanGalous statements which have
i been made about Mr.. POnSant and my
self. There are some things connected
whit this case, which if told to you
and We're published would cause the
reading public to extend sympathy to
me rather than scandal. l do not de-
sire 10 go into the detail of every lit
| tie trouble that has come to NE dur
| ing my married life, each and everyone
of which forms Il section of the gen.
| eral structure upon which this personal
attack rests
| "Of course you understand, Mrs.
Strrtevant, that it is not through any
malice on the part of the Journal that
! this story OF March 20 was published.
You must know that all Of the infor-
matiCn secured by our reporter who
handled the case came directly from
your husband, and that we had every
reason to believe that he knew what
he was talking about and that he felt
| he had occasion to make such talk. 1
am speaking now of your husband,
Mr.. w. H. Sturtevant."
Il understand fully, sir. In reading
| the articles 1 have noted that my hus-
| band made many statements regarding
| MIR. Ponsant and myself which you
| published. 1t is because of the fact
that my husband provided the story
| that l have come to you to ask what
I consider but justice and fairness at
your hands. I returned home last night
on the s O'Clock train. l went directly
home and found a pile of Boston and
Maine newspapers on the table to all
appearances having been left there to
attract my attention. 1t was after II
O'Clock before I really grasped the sit
uati0n.
"Now for the story of my trip to
Massachusetts, My husband knew and
had known that I was going away:
that I would be absent not more than
two weeks; that I would visit relatives
and friends in Lynn, Mass, and AL
bany, n. V that I would transact le
ga, business with which he was famil
lar in Boston.
"Mr Ponsant came to our house on
10 ho1 his 1rpCC S1lit
with him and said he was going to
Boston on the Pullman. Previously he
had advised me to seek legal coun
sci. regarding the suit in equity which
| have brought against my husband
and to secure that counsel in Boston.
He gave me the names of several at
tcrneys whom he knows. said he was
going to Boston and Rhode Island
himself soon and would be glad to in
troduce me to some able lawyer.
"That Sunday he was at our house
I asked him to wait until Monday af-
ternoon. as I was going to Boston and
world like to have him go along as
company and as a witness to an inter
view I expected to have with the law
yer on the other side of the equity
case. My husband himself asked Mr..
POnsant to wait until Monday after
non and go with me. Mr.. Ponsant did
wait my husband did drive us to the
station. but I bought my own ticket,
having secured the parlor car fare
through Mr.. Dodge before the train
left Bangor. Mr.. Ponsant bought his
own ticket I told my husband that I
would keep him posted regarding my
whereabouts everyday. That night
when | reached Boston I sent him a
card telling him to address me in care
of the general delivery of that city.
I went out to Lynn to visit my fathers
aunt I wrote Mr.. Sturtevant from
there. I sent him souvenir postal cards
from Albany, \. Y. On one Of these I
wrote him that I would be back in
Boston last Wednesday and that I
would be at home Friday. He showed
that card to Mr.. Brown. his lawyer,
and he has all of them at home now"
"Can you ascribe any cause for your
husband giving out such a story?"
"Simply for no other reason than to
hurt me in my equity case"
evil you kindly explain that equity
case?"
"Refore we were married and during
the period of our engagement, Mr..
Sturtevant told my mother that the
real and personal property contained in
his home amounted to between $4,000
and $4,000. He said this was all in his
own name. Naturally we expected that
/ and any issue that might result from
our marriage would share equitably in
that property. Soon after our marriage
1 discovered that three days before the
wedding Mr.. Sturtevant had trans
ferred by deed all of his property to
his two daughters by his first wife.
This 1 found to be the fact beyond
question. that the deed had been drawn
and executed, returned to the office Of
the late Edmund F. Webb and sent to
the daughters, who were then in Beth
lehenl. N H. working for John Ware
Naturally I felt bad about this and
discourag ed at that. Two years later
our little girl was born. Well. as time
went OH l was continually thinking of
that troublesome fact. that in case of
the death of my husband neither my