The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-11-20
BRYAN'S DAUGHTER
SEEKS DIVORCE
Artist Husband to be Charged With
Non-Support and Mental
Cruelty.
THE CAMPAIGN DELAYED SUIT.
Leavitt, Unable to Support a Wife.
is Now in Paris
Studying.
lie CAMPAIGN DELAYED SUIT.

CHICAGO, November 6-Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Leavitt is preparing to bring
suit for absolute divorce from her ar
list husband William Homer Leavitt.
This information was given out to-
night by an intimate friend of Mrs.
Leavitt in Chicago. She says that the
suit will be filed in Denver, where the
Leavitts had a home, and where they
last lived together.
Leavitt is now in Paris continuing
his art studies. The two children,
Ruth Leavitt, five years old, and Will
liam Bryan Leavitt, three years old,
are with their mother. Officially, they
still live in Denver, but they spend
much of their time in Lincoln and the
children had the time of their lives at
Fairview during the campaign.
DIVORCE LONG CONTEMPLATED.
Mrs. Leavitt's romance is as inter-
esting as it proved unfortunate. 1t
ended long ago, but the forms were
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their open severance might react upon
Mr.. Bryan. Mrs. Leavitt was anxious
to sue for a divorce before the ma
tional convention in Denver.
After that great show, where her
father swept everything before him
and she herself was social queen, she
saw all the more reason for delaying
divorce proceedings.
No opposition is expected from the
artist. When his wife told him in
Denver that he was simply impos-
sible and that she couldn't endure him
another day." it is said they agreed
that the end had come When the ac-
ton is begun the charges will be non
support, mental cruelty and incom-
patibility of temper. Mrs. Leavitt will
ask for trust of the children.
BEGINNING OF ROMANCE
Six years ago Homer Leavitt, then
about twenty-nine years of age, rang
the bell at Fairview. He had been en-
gagged to paint Mr.. Bryans portrait.
Ruth Bryan, a girl of seventeen years,
opened the door. She fell in love with
Leavitt at the first glimpse and the
poor artist-he was so poor that he
had to get credit from the street car
conductors-was not slow to note the
fact.
Being a girl after her fathers own
mold, Miss Bryan announced that if
she were not permitted to marry
Leavitt she would elope with him and
dispense with the parents sanction.
Mrs. Bryan refused to attend the
wedding. Her husband was a reluctant
witness. He expected the worst, but
he did everything he could to ward it
off.
After the ceremony the Leavitts went
to Denver, where they remained
short while. Then they went to New
Orleans, The little girl was born
there. Yellow fever drove the family
back to Denver again and by this time
it was apparent to Mr.. Bryan that his
son-in-law was not able to support the
young wife and baby. Mrs. Leavitt
went home to Fairview and the boy
was born there. Upon her return the
artist established sorry home for
her, in cheap hotel.
BRYAN BOUGHT THE HOME.
While Leavitt was out of town Mr..
Bryan visited his daughter and pur-
chased a home for her. In spite Of this
aid the artist was unable to keep the
wolf from the door and Mrs. Leavitt
told her friends that he "nagged her
to death"
About year ago the pretty little
home in Denver was dismantled and
Leavitt, turned suddenly prosperous,
hied himself for gay Paris to perfect
himself in high arts.
It was noticed that when Mrs.
Leavitt, her children and her mother
went abroad last spring they did not
hunt up Leavitt's studio nor invite him
to call on them at their hotel in Paris.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
against the government, but have been
the victim of the conspiracy
"All of these proofs are matters of
record in the courts of Arizona"