The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-11-20

DENVER, Nov. THE Bryan.Lea.
witt romance is facing an ugly culmina-
ton in the divorce courts.
All the misery which the eldest
daughter of the Commoner has suffered
since three months after her sensation
al marriage to William Homer Leavitt,
six years ago, will be aired in the dis
trict court in Denver where, it is said,
Leavitt will fight to the last ditch the
charges of his young wife.
For more than year the tongues of
social and artistic Denver have wagged
with choice morsels concerning domes-
tic infelicity in the Leavitt household.
Once it was rumored that Mrs. Leavitt
would sue for divorce. Then came an
emphatic denial from her. Leavits, it
was said, threatened TO circulate stories
which would be embarrassing to his
wife's father, in case action were TAX
en- against him and to deprive him of
his children.
1t finally became known that Mrs.
Leavitt, while not intending to longer
live with her husband would not drag
her difficulties with him into the lime
light during the tendency of national
election.
Since the result of Tuesdays ballot
ing became known, those closest to Mrs.
Leavitt's confidence in Denver and in
Lincoln have foreseen the beginning of
the end.
If the complaint has already been
: filed in Denver it has been religiously
| suppressed This, however, Is believed
by some for the reason that Leavitt
has mysteriously left Paris and is said
TO be on the high seas. He must have
had some intimatOn of the action when
he abandoned his studio in the Rue
Falguieres, in the Latin quarter, and
left his friends to wonder what had be-
come of him.
Mrs. Leavitt, it is alleged, will ask
!, for divorce on the technical grounds of
non. support. If Leavitt does not con-
test she will obtain her decree on this
showing. If, however, he fights, as it
is said he confidently intends doing, she
J has n few more charges up her sleeve
to include in an amended complaint.
Home is in Denver.
|
yer. Mrs. Leavitt, with her two chill
dren, Ruth Leavitt, five years old, and
William Bryan Leavitt, years old, is
at Fairview, the Bryan home.
1t is said that the youngsters domi-
nate the household of the Peerless One
and that love for them has caused both
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan to be entirely for
giving of the elopement of their daugh-
ter.
Mrs. Leavitt's romance is as inter.
esting as it proved unfortunate. 1t
ended long ago, but the form was per
, mitted to continue for fear that its
open severance might react upon Mr..
Bryan. Mrs. Leavitt was anxious to
sue for divorce before the national con-
vention in Denver,
After that great show, where her
father swept everything before him,
and she herself was social queen, she
divorce proceedings.
Husband is willing
But now that restraint is gone and it
: is said that Mrs. Leavitt intends to
have her liberty as soon as the courts
will give it to her.
Just six years ago William Homer
Leavitt, then about 20 years old, good
looking and suaveS rang the bell at
, Fairyiew. He had been engaged to
paint Mr.. Bryan's portrait.
Ruth Bryan, q girl of II years, open
ed the door. She fell in love with
; Leayitt at the first glimpse and the
; poor artist--he was so poor that he had
to get credit from the street ear con
ductors-was not slow 10 note the fact.
Being girl after her fathers own
: mold, Miss Bryan announced that if she
were not permitted TO marry Leavitt,
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she would elope with him and dispense
with the parental sanction.
Mrs Bryan refused to attend the
wedding. Her husband was a reluctant