Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-02
SOCIETY is STIRRED
EDWARD Lowe, JR., ARRESTED
FOR wife DESERTION.
a Social Sensation. Wealthy Parents
of Young Husband TRY TO sreak
Up His Home, but Do not Want to
Pay the Price Demanded BY His
wife.

Edward Lowe, Jr., was arrested in
this city last Thursday night by Sher
if Payette, on charge of wife de-
sertion, and was taken to the county
Jail in an automobile, where he was
kept until the next morning, when
he was released on $1,000 bail to
answer in the superior court, Fred
A. Hart and Chas. r. Green, of this
city, being his sureties.
The arrest created sensation in
society circles here, where Mr.. and
Mrs. Lowe have been quite popular
with the younger set, and is the out
come of a romance of the kind sell
dom met with in real life. They
are but 19 years old, and were mar
ried in New York city year ago
last spring, when but little over II
years of age. Lowe. who is the only
son of Edward Lowe, of Grand Rap
ids, Michigan, a multimillionaire,
who owns vast tracts of timber lands
on Grays Harbor.
Young Lowe was attending school
in New York at the time of his mar
riage and his parents were in Europe
On their return they were vastly dis
pleased with the marriage and cut
off the sons allowance. With 5000,
a legacy from his grandmother, young
Lowe and his bride came to Aberdeen
about year ago, where he obtained
employment with the Wood
Lumber Co. The parents declined
to aid the young couple in any way,
but the grandfather of Lowe, d. A.
Blodgett, placed 10000 in bank
stock in trust for the youthful hus-
band, and the couple apparently were
as happy as could be. Mrs. Lowe
gained host of friends during her
residence here, and was, and is, very
popular among her acquaintances.
About three months ago, the par
ents of the young husband arrived
in Aberdeen, and since then matters
have gone wrong in the home of the
elder Loves had never ceased to en-
| deavOr to have the marriage annuled
| in some way, and Mrs. Lowe says
their trip west was to effect that end
They sent an attorney to her with
IA proposition that she allow her hus-
band to secure a divorce, on the
ground of incompatiblity, Offering
her $500 when she left for New York
500 a month pending the divorce,
and when the decree was rendered
$4,000 cash and $1,000 in trust
| for her unborn child. This she re-
fused and later was offered 1000
cash and $4,000 in trust if she
would resume her maiden name upon
being divorced.
| This was also spurned, the young
wife informing the attorney that
|
enough to have her child go through
life with the stigma of shame. Then
her terms were asked for, and she
said that for $4,000 cash, and $50
600 in trust for herself and child
she would permit the divorce, provid-
ing she be allowed to retain the name
of the father of her child.
BY this time, the young husband
had been won over by his parents
and he began to urge his wife to ac-
cept the terms offered, and since
then has wholly neglected her. Mrs
Lowe wired her mother, who came
from New York and is now witt
her, and the delicate condition o.
her daughter renders her presence alb
solutely necessary. In the complaint
upon which Lowe was arrested, it /!
alleged that he had contributed bu
60 cents in 60 days to her support
and that the water had been cut of
from home by reason of her inabilit,
to pay the rental
The affair is the sensation of Gray
Harbor, owing to the social and fin
ancial prominence of the parties, an'
is likely to prove a bonanza for law
yers before it is concluded. TIT
charge against young Lowe is fel
Ony under the statutes; divorce
suit seems inevitable and in all prob
ability the young wife will bring ac
ton against the elder Loves fo
heavy damages for the alienation o
her husbands affections.