The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-10
BANKER CRUEL,
WIFE SWEARS IN
SEPARATION SUIT
Mrs. Van Horn Says He Urged
Suicide Pact and Planned
to Kill Children.
DELUSION, HE DECLARES
Denies Accusation, and Insists
SpouSe'S Mind Was Affect
ed by Operations.
DELUSlON, HE DECLARES

tu ny operations.
Asking Justice Platzek for $50 monthly
alimcny, pending the trial Of her suit,
for separation from Frank Milton Van
Horn, head Of the bond department o.
the banking house OF A. B. Leach & Co,
of No. lis Broadway, on charge Of
cruel and irhuman trcatmnrt," aban-
fonment and non-suppcrt, Eudora Van
Horn presented an affidavit to the Court
to-day. In this she said:
We were married Nov II, 1891. in this
city. We have three chlldron-Frank
Milton Jr, now sixteen years old; John
Philip, thirteen, and Joseph Theodore,
who will be eight on March 4. Although
have always conducted myself as a
faithful and Toying wife, he has at vari.
Gus times been guilty Of cruel and IN.
human treatment oward me and our
children. and has deserted and aban.
doned me and refuses to live with me.
Talk Of Suicide Pact.
FOR some years NY. van Horn has
at divers times threatened to commit
suicide, frequently making attempts to-.
ward that end in my presence. and has
even suggested to me that we enter into
n suicide pact, and that after having
killed the children, we would kill our
selves. In attempting to prevent my
husband from fulfilling his threats Of
self-hestructlon, | have been compelled
to endanger my own life.
LAS the result Of the treatment by my
husband Of myself and the children In
his fits OF passion and temper, when he
has repeatedly used abusive and insult
ing language to me and has otherwise
Inundated me. have suffered great
distress OF mind, which has several
times brought me to a condition border
ing on nervous prostration."
DeIusion, Says Banker.
turn from Europe. and while she was
unpacking his trunk. Mrs. Van Horn
says she came upon letter written TO
her husband by some other woman in
which the writer commented on his
beautiful eyes talked about the heart
ache he had caused her. and begged
him to promise to see her when ne came
to London.
She says he at first denied and then
admitted that he had dned with the
writer of the letter in Paris.
Then he demanded that letter and
said he wanted It damn quick. too, and
went to his dresser" she says, ''and
taking out loaded revolber pointed It
at me, putting the muzze close to my
head and said: 7 will end this whole
thing now
I'm my struggles to get the revolver
away from him was bruised and hurt,
and as a result almost had nervous
Banker Van Horn makes a sweeping
denial Of al this and says these charges
are all imaginary, and the result OF her
mind being affected BY an operation to
which she was subjected.
Threat to End All.
Mrs. Van Horn says that on the six
tenth anniversary OF their wedding she
asked her husband to dine with her that
evening. and he told her he would do So
but that it would be their last ami
versary together. as lie intended to Kill |
himself. About Christmas, 1907, she de-
clares he told her he had taken two
years lease on an apartment in the
Woodward Hotel. at Broadway and
rfty.tifth street, but that she would I,
have no difficulty In cancelling the lease
after he had killed himself, which he in I.
tended to do.
Five or six years ago he insisted on |,
my associeting with an old friend Of /.
his, a married woman. of whose drink !
Ing and other distasteful habits Ibid I
not approve" she declares.
I'm February, 1908, when Teddy. i
then seven years old, fell i'll with scar /
let fever, my husband abandoned me /
and took up apartments in another |
branch Of the hotel and has been living |
separate from me ever since" she |
adds.
Mrs. Van Horn says that last summer.
while she and the children were at |
Allenhurs,. n, j., she Is informed her |
husband had another woman In her
apartments at the Woodward Hotel, |
whom he called a trained nurse. Dur.
ing that time. sire says. he was wen /
enough 10 be GU, Of doors and tho