The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
ANOTHER DOMESTIC
ROW IS PRECIPITATED
Lack Of Heir Causes Wealthy
Physician TO Lead a
Double Life

Piusburg Pa, Jul l4-Pittsburg
society was stirred by the uncover
ing of scandal which threatens to
rival the Corey case in sensational
ism. Mrs. Mary II Dickson. wife OF
DR.. Joseph z Dickson, perhaps one
of the most famed Of American sur
gcons, uas filed suit for divorce,
naming Miss Jessie Ray, a beautiful
trained nurse. as correspondent
Mrs. Dickson did nor AXE this
step until she found the nurse was
tho proud mother of a bouncing baby
whose right to call Dr Dickson dad :
she questions and resents.
DR.. Dickson made a short state
meut to the public through his close
friend Wade Chism, who, after al
hitting that the divorce suit would
not be contested sad
Or. Dickson loves children. He
wanted them. This was the cause OF
The whole trouble
Mr Chism said further that he was
empowered to say that hardly any
denial would be mate Dy DR. Dick
son that he was the father of the
child born 10 Miss Ray
a Jolt for the Madame.
The suit for divorce by the child
| less Wife OF the eminent surgeon was
filed quietly here July ? though II
| had been in process of preparation
since last April. when Mrs. Dickson
discovered that Hiss Ray and the
child We're being kept at the home OF
D. Dicksons father in Clinton Pa.
Mrs Dickson sets forth that She
went to visit her husbands father
at eli on last April and there saw
a beautiful soung woman with a
child of some years, who was adj
dressed rs Jessie by tle family.
Going iulo lhc room of Jessie one
day Mrs Dickson found a soiled col
mr. and ucckjio ON the dresser which
She recognized as her husbands.
How did this come in your bed
room? asked Mrs. Dickson
That. Ol' That belongs 10 Ine
said JESSIE demurely, looking the
wife i'm the eye and then The storm
brcke.
Mrs. Dickson AYERS that she has
found that the nurse, who was once
tle assistant of DR.. Dickson. has been
more than nurse or friend for more
than five gears, that he has main.
| tanned a separate establishment for
her most OF the past five years, that
he sent aer to Mt. Vernon, Ohio 10
take a postgraduate course as nurse
and that. about this time, or shortly
after, the child was born
Miss Ray cannot be found at the
present time Mrs Dickson's attor-
neys being unable to serve papers ON
her.
Leader in Society.
Besides being the wife of a very
rich man Mis-. Dickson is rich in her
own right and for years has been a
! lClder i'm society She has been
married to Dr Dickson for the past
ten ears.
Word from Clinton, Pa. is that The
eide, Dickson has sent The nurse and
the child away from his home. thai
he did not know of the alleged rela-
tionship between his son and the
| pretty youug matron who was sent
there TO board by the famous ply
sican up at Pttsburg. The elder
| Dickson is a church deacon and has
sided with his daughterin-law com
/ pletely i'm her troubles.
Dr. Dickson is member of the
Duquesne and other big clubs of
Pittsburg To one of his fellow club
members he is alleged to have made
the following reply. When taken TO
task for his alleged transferring OF
affections to the nurse.
Il have but one excuse-that is.
my overpuwering desire for an heir
to bear my name My wife did not
bear me children and fear my af
fections were weaned away
Nurse and Babe In Europe.
1t is understood that Miss Ray and
The babe in question nave gone to
Europe and at the almost deserted
home Of ,Dr Dickson ii il learned
that the surgeon intends TO 20 abroad
soon II is denied at several of the
large clubs i'm Pittsburg that Or.
Dickson has rendered his resignation
CT that he has been asked TO resign
Al one of the clubs. however. it is