The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
Laughs at Threats of Brother in
Law to Drag Him Back
to New York
'1'lI GO When ! Get Ready, With
Marital Bonds just On
or Off," He Says
Tries to Shield From Notoriety
Handsome Widow Who
Came West With Him

Quite joke to W. RI. Rudolph. the
New York plunger. is the suggestion
that detectives are on his tran and are
about to take him back to New York
to face a charge OF wife desertion.. He
says that he is going back to Gotham
soon. and either with marital bonds
freshly OF or freshly on.
why, there's nothing to it that
am being traced by detectives" he said
yesterday afternoon. after the race
track boat was in. standing with his
back to the broad fireplace at the ST.
Francis grill. That's foolish. I'm
registered here at the hotel as W. r.
Rudolph. amt I? I'm not hiding. I'm
going back to New York all right In
about two months. maybe. I'm going
to start my divorce suit: there will be
referee appointed It will all be
settled"
WIDOW FINEST DRESSER
Mrs. Collins, the handsome brunette
widow, who came from New York with
her 10 year old son at the time Rudolph
enjoys the fair fame OF being the best
dressed woman in the hotel.
/ How long Rudolph and his party will
stay in San Francisco the New Yorker
is uncertain.
'I don't have to stay IN San Fran
than the hospitality OF the Golden
gate should invite. II can leave here
now if want TO. 1 can go back to
New York"
CHILDREN ARE PROBLEM
A question which has disturbed the
Rudolph family seriously since the
turfman came to this city is that OF
the education of the two little boys.
their sons. Rudolph Is perfectly will
ing to educate the youngsters IN the
best possible schools, but he and his
wife disagree on the place OF instruc-
tion. Rudolph would put the lads in
military school at Peekskill, N. T..
but the mother desires different
training for the youngsters As she
at present has them in her custody the
lads are not now cadets. The father
says that he desires to relieve his wife
of all responsibility in connection with
the education of the children
In the letter which Rudolph has from
his wife, Mabel Kittleman Rudolph. in
which she promised that IL she ever
drank again she would forfeit her
claim to be called wife. the woman
also relinquished her children on the
same contingency. Rudolph would In
woke the letter in securing control
over the boys.
The wife and children are staying
with M. X. Kittleman. brother OF
Mrs. Rudolph. This brother In law,
according to Rudolph. owes him
enough money to cover expenses incl
dental to the care of his wife and
children at the Kittieman home. The
transplanted New Yorker declared. yes
4 terday that he had heard from Kittle-
man and that Kittleman denied having
made public the rupture In the Rudolph
family.
CALLS STORY STALE
Rudolph seenaed 10 greet with an
emotion between surprise and chagrin
the fact that the news of his ruction
with his wife, which had been con-
/ <....1<.,se e. fl,~.- rr,o,fb~ shoY.Id hreak
into light in San Francisco. He
classed the story of his domestic af-
/ fairs in the category Of belated shows
and fashions that do not reach San
Francisco until after a year in Broad
/ way. The fact that his hearthstone
Francisco instead OF in New York ddd
not evoke any applause from Rudolph
He merely reiterated his ability to
/ leave san Francisco at any time he
i wished and to return to New York
whenever he felt like doing. 50 and
received with scorn the suggestion that
san Francisco might be a good place
to be in at-this particular time.
i Rudolph's chief concern yesterday
j was to shield Mrs. Collins from any
notoriety that might attach to her from
/ the fact that she and her SON are in
his party at the hotel and that his
i friends understand that when be Sc
cures his decree Of divorce from the
i wife in New York he will wed the hand
/ some widow.
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