The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-24
Former keokuk Man and Now Bank.
rupt Broker is Again in the
Limelight Since His
Return.
DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS
Chicago Newspaper States That Mrs
Love Was Afraid That Sidney
Would kidnap the
Baby.

:
whose meteoric career as broker in
Chicago and New York, is well known
to Keokuk people, is again in the
limelight. He returned recently from
Europe and is now in Chicago. The
Record-Herald of yesterday morning
had the following rather startling
piece about him, which will be. of in.
terest to his many acquaintance IN
keokuk:.
Information reached Chicago
through a special cablegram from
London to the New York World last
night which makes. it plain that the
romance of Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney c..
Love has ended in shipwreck. The
bankrupt broker and his lovely wife
are not merely estranged; they have
entered upon a bitter struggle for
the possession of their single child,
according to the cablegram, and Mrs.
Love, fearing her husband, has been
forced to appeal to the American en-
bassy in London for protection.
For time Mrs. Love with her
mother. Mrs. c. G. Burnes of III Lake
Shore drive, who is at present her
daughters guest in London, was
obliged to secret herself in an obscure
hotel in the west end of London.
where, with the managers procure.
ment, she was surrounded by guard
Mr.. Love, before sailing for America,
visited this hotel on several occasions
With the purpose apparently of kid
MAPPING the child, according to the
cablegram, but he was prevented from
carrying out his purpose.
Divorce Seems Certain.
The cable from London serves only
to confirm the suspicion of Mrs
Loves friends in Chicago that a d.
vorce is imminent. This suspicion has
been growing ever since Mr.. Love,
unaccompanied by his wife. took
apartments at the Virginia Hotel and
denied himself to all his old asso-
GATES
While some hint of the truth may
have reached them, it is improbable
that the whole story was known. The
dispatches make it clear that the
Loves have not lived together for
months and that the wife feared the
husband.
Mrs. Burnes recently called on
Ambassador Reid, to whom she was
known, and asked that he interfer to
protect her daughter. She said that
Mr.. Love was rendering his wife's
life uncomfortable and that he had been
seeking for some time to kidnap their
months old baby girl.
What money Mrs. Love inherited
remained intact, and it is thought pos
sible that Mr.. Love may seek to re-
habilltate his fortune here. None of
his former business associates will
admit, however, that Mr.. Love has
preached to them his plans for the
future or that he has even called
Alfred L. Baker, one Of Mr.. Loves
closest former friends. said yesterday
that he had not seen him and that he
hadn't the slightest idea what the
purpose of his visit to Chicago might
be-
Mr.. Love With Friends.
Mr.. Loves movements since he
reached Chicago and registered at the
Virginia hotel have been obscure. Ii
is known that he passed Thursday
night and part of yesterday with
friends in Lake Forest, but who those
friends were has not been disclosed
Mr.. Love himself has not been visible
Noble B. Judah. attorney for Mrs
Burnes, said yesterday that, while he
had notsseen Mr.. Love and knew moth
Ing of4his plans for the future, he
could say that Mrs. Love and hel
mother were eargerly looking forward
to the time when they might come tc
Chicago to live.
Neither likes London" he said
"and both have been held there up te
now largely by III health. Mrs. Love
wishes to return to America. and she
would rather live in Chicago than in
New York
He said he was unable to throw
any light on Mr.. Loves business
plans.