Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-23
THE SUPERIOR COURT
Divorce Suit of Frank Baylor
 From Georgia Magnet.

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 divorce suit of Frank Baylor against Annie Baylor, alias Anna Abbott known on the vaudeville stage as the Georgia Magnet" She sat by hel counsel, Attorney Monagan, rolling her eyes toward the ceiling or throw ing significant smiles at the audacit, of her husbands story, while al l other times the huge black plumes ir her stupendous hat seemed to noo with contempt at his tale. The story of the Baylors is long one. Briefly they were married in New York ir February, 1896, and about the time the Spanish war broke out Baylor hiked 1t off to Cuba with the army When that trouble was over he came | back to civil life.
 During his absence he received a | telegram from his wife informing him Tit was twins.'' They lived in Columbia county, South Carolina l Aiken, Ga, and in various parts 1n Waterbury. Mrs Baylor owns a house on Walnut street.
 In March, 1904, Mrs Baylor, whc had travelled Europe under the man. agement of one MT Abby, as the Georgia Magnet, conceived the idea that she wanted to go on the vaudeville stage. Her husband re- monstrated. She says because she would not allow him to be her mana ger; his story was that her place was at home looking after the children three of whom had been born then Only the twins are living.
 However, off she went on the Poli circuit, pushing everything before her singular influence on the stage Baylor said he did not see his wife again until 1907. Then she walked into the Walnut street house one day and planked down three diamond rings on the covers of the wash tubs Baylor refused to look at them. He wanted to know why and how she got mixed up in divorce case in Califor- mia. She said it was another woman of the same name. Anyway, how ever that may be, Baylor got his back up and left the house.
 But meanwhile, though he had not seen his wife from March, 1904. to May, 1907, he had heard from her A number of letters were read from her to him. Part of one ran thus:
 You may arrange for your di- yorce as soon as you please for this is my final farewell to you" She also spoke of another woman who was acting under her name and reputa- tion and this seemed to occasion her considerable trouble in getting book ed.
 On December II, 1904, she wrote home that she would never see heI husband again and you may have your children and keep them" An earlier letter said: ''I am going south to see Abby so you can pack your grip and do anything you like , In the pile. of letters was a postal with picture of cat yawning and bearing the words, Mamma sends kisses with the cat." and, kiss cat you make me tired" Evidently this last expression was intended for her husband
 When this card was read by Attor- ney Kelley. counsel for Baylor, "the magnet" turned her head aside in whitening scorn and the black plume on her great hat shook with con tempt.
 Baylor said that all his wife sent home during her three years ab- sence was a box of such inferior clothing for the children that he tore 1t all up and sent it back to her. An other time she sent some shoes for the twins but they were so small they could not be worn and they were thrown away. Once. while he was living with the children at Reynolds Bridge his wife and two women and constable demanded the twins, the women contending they were the re- spective mothers of them. They did not get the children.
 Baylor referred to the defendant as Miss Abbott" as often as he re- fererd to her as Mrs Baylor. He did not once call her my wife" in his testimony.
 The defendant took the stand this morning and told the most remark able story ever heard in that court room. She admitted going through some kind of ceremony with Bay Tor, but never considered Jim as a husband. And the twins were not twins at all: they were the children of another woman and shelf names were Harold and Otelio. She said she knew Baylor about three weeks before she went through this cere- mony with hins after which she went to her home in Aiken, Ga, and he re- mained in New York. Eight months later he went south and begged her to take him in. She went to Ten nessee. leaving him in charge of the house. which was occupied by her mother and some of the txenty-three children she had adopted during the coarse of her singular career. Sub sequently she tried to make a baker of Baylor. She bought bakery business and put him in charge, but he would not work and she had to sell out. Baylor ran away with all the money she had in bank. But the bank sent the police after him and after some time he won her forgive ness and returned to Aiken and paid back $40. On his promise to do bet ter north they left the south.
 At this point Mrs Baylor broke the train of her story by stating that she was married before and her husband vas a chief of police of Aiken and was killed three days after her boy was born. Where that boy Is now she does not know. She sad Baylor