The San Francisco call., 1908-09-06
MaCN[v|NS AGREE
ON QUIT DIVORCE
Settlement Is Arranged and the
Public Win Hear No More
OF Domestic Troubles

AS an aftermath of the recently
threatened suit for divorce by William
v. MacNevin, against Mrs. Gertrude
Aiken Piper -MacNevin there comes
from friends of the. latter statement
that all the domestic difficulties which
were so thoroughly aired in the
newspapers have been settled out of
court and that the meekest sort of a
quiet little divorce suit will shortly
bring the whole affair to an end.
The settlement that is said to vhave
been arranged between MacNevin and
his wife calls for suit to be brought
by the latter on the ground of cruelty.
and this suitsw will not be contested.
Mrs. MacNevin is TO be given the
handsome home in San Mateo and all
the furniture it contains, together with
$4,000 lin cash. MacNevin is to be re-
Heved from further payment of ali
mony' and is to have the custody. of
their two year-~old daughter Ruth,
who is now with her mother in this
city.
SCENE AT ROADHOUSE "a
MdCNeVau, VINO IS a HleHDeT OF t0e
real estate firm of MacNevin' & Jones,
first tossed the family troubles out into
the limelight "a few weeks ago. when
he accompanied a threat to bring i'm
mediate divorce proceedings against his
beautiful spouse with tale of having
found her a member of a gay party at
a roadhouse just outside San Francisco
on the morning of August H.
MacNevin's charge was that, having,
Il .eI L., ~ H.
breakfast while on, his way. home
in an automobile, he found his
wife with. the wife of a close friend
of hfs. and two male companions, whose
identity he refused to divulge. There
was a scene at the roadhouse, and then
came counter. charges from Mrs. Mac
Nevin that her husband had been the
guilty participant in the scene Of road
house hiiarity and that she herself
was not there at all
In the meantime the divorce has not
been brought. Now comes the state-
ment that so far as sensations go, when
the divorce suit is called for trial there
will be nothing stirring, but with this
comes also the revelation of the iden-
tity of the man alleged to have been
Mrs. MacNevin's companion on. the oc-
casion of the roadhouse incident
FRIENDS FACE SLAPPED
This man, SO the story goes, is q we'll
known businessman about SO years of
age, with offices In Montgomery street,
and is the same Individual who figured
in a previous episode of somewhat
similar nature, which at the time had
little significance for MacNevin. 1t
was on New Years eve that this other
meeting between Mrs. MacNevin.s COM
panion and her irate husband occurred.
The three were together in an uptown
restaurant on that occasion. when Mac
Nevin, returning to the dining room
after a short absence, is said to have
discovered Mrs. MacNevin submitting
to the kisses and embraces OF the mu-
tual friend
MacNevin asserted himself by slap
ping the others face and pummeling
him severely, it is said, until Mrs.
MacNevin interfered. begging him to
desist from the assault son the ground
that her .aduirer was an old man. a
little drunk and probably didn't know
what he was doing. MacNevin evil
IDENTITY saw 1t that way, too. and passed
it of. allowing the matter to drop en-
tirely until the meeting at the road
house caused the full significance of
their alleged regard for each other to
dawn upon him ~-