Evening star., 1909-07-11
Wealthy PhiIadeIphian Files
Charges Against Wife.
PETITIONS FOR DIVORCE
Seeks to Recover Estate Claimed To
Be Worth $500, 900.
NAMES PROMINENT CRICKETER
Fired at Correspondent With Double
barreled Shotgun, But DID
Not Injure.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 1o.-By
sensational petition, in which he ehal
his wife with unfaithfulness. deser'io'
and cruel treatment. Dawson Hoopes "
day fled suit in common pleas couI' NJ
4 for divorce from Kate Eleanor hoopes'
He names as correspondent Charpes a
Newhal. a cricketer of international prom
,nence. whom he shot with douoie-
barreled gun at Amber uncer chcuii'-
stances as sensational as the charges ne
now makes. -
In addition to his application for divorce
Hoopes filed a suit in equity for the re-
covery of an estate which ne CLAIMS "
he worth SJOO,OOO and which he declares
Ire signed away while feeble In mlno anu
body, owing to inducements mace pS ne
wife and his brother, Clement r. Hoopes'
and Barton Hopes, jr
Mrs. Hoopes Is In London visiting ner
married daughter, Mrs. W. w. Barton
and her side of the story, or course, naa
not heen made public. Several years dSo
she began proceedings to nave nel Aoh, In
hand adiudged an habitual drunkaru. III
his netition for the recovery OF ms prop
erty Hoopes declares that he had re
formed = and that he is now per1ectiy
competent to manage his estate.
Details Of the Bill.
In his bill of particulars he goes ih'o
details of the charges that ne makes
arainst his wife. who. before her hiai
rage. Miss Kate Eleanor Hughes, salo 10
be wealthy in her own right. II IS aieseu
hv uoopes that his wife placed a drus
or foreign substance In milk before MIN.
He further asserts that she told niin Ie-
peatedly that Ibis life was notnins 10 nei :
that all she wanted was his money, ina
dI.
least on one occasion, she left loaded re-
yolyer In a position by which ne miens
accidentally be killed by d1Scnarge OF
the weapon while he was undressing III
the dark"
He Also charges his wife with using pro-
family. with throwing kisses from the
window of their home to Newman, anu
with giving the latter authority 10 cohtrol
the house and the servants or the doopes
household.
He further alleges that Mrs. Hopes
permitted Newhall to furnish her with
her breakfast and declares that sne canle
home in the early morning In taNicdo
with Newhall and that she was ii'oN'-
He alleges that Newhall and his wife
DISPLAYED a fondness for walks In "oous
and unfrequented places in ana ABOUT
Chestnut Hill.
Signaled From the Window.
..she signaled from the window of her
home, he complains, lin such manner
as TO provoke gossip in the neighborhood'
appeared before the windows In an lh-
formal attire and threw kisses from the
window to Newhall."
He gives the following description OF
the scene which he says led to the final
parting of himself and his wife: June
the said respondent. whose actions had
been productive OF disputes between libel
liant and respondent. was seen by libellant
in the greenhouse at Tynyford with Said
Newhall, kissing each other. The libel
liant forthwith ordered said Newhali from
the place"
Hoopes shot at Newhall with double
barreled gun at Amber. but because or
the distance which parted them failed to
infiict any injury. He was arrested and
sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and to be
Imprisoned for one year. but the latter
part of the sentence was not enforced.
Last January he was arrested at At
lantic City on complaint of Miss Kathryn
Wilson who declared that he tried to
force his way into her room.