The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-07-22
Divorce Declares She Had
Motherly Interest, With
No Thought of Marriage.
GRISWOLD
NEEDS GOOD GAMING
Heart Broken Youth Wants $4,000
for Alleged Damages to Aztec
ton by fitting.
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soft brown striped shirt. His hands are
lersc and freckIed.
4 knew, said RuzzieIamb that
there'd be an awful roar when this came
out I suppose that If I went up 10
Stamford or Rowayton just now they'd
get after me 50 hard I'd have 10 take
refuge up me tree. Ny mother told
me I'd better net try to get any salts
faction for being Tilted And q few days
ago q friend Of Mrs Smith met me and
grabbed me oy the arm and said.
Boy, do You know what YOU are
doing? Don't you do it
But he was a friend Of hers, not Of
mine And 7 was certainly sore ami
I am yet She got me TO love her, and
men, aIter promising 10 marry me.
changed her mind and just threw me
away I'd be a fool 10 stand for IL
and the worst Of IL is, he said. Il
love her yet. Yes. I do I've tried hard
rot 10 go on loving her. but ] DO Il S
just the same now as when I was Il
I can't think Of any other woman being
able 10 take her place. Ever since
met her girls OF my own age or younger
have always seemed insipid and foolish
compared 10 he--
Cant Help Loving Her"
Il knew she was a good deal older
than was, but she was so fun Of fun.
so enthusiastically about my violin and
piano playing; she was such a wonder
ful hostess her parties were always
so much fun and she always shore
brighter than any one else al them
Z ten you right now. after the way she
has treated me can't help loving her
That's what makes me all the madden
at what she's done. That's what has
made me bring this suit for damages
GriswoId paused and Ieadlusted his
neat uoa. tie
You know he SAID. 'TEeIeu-er. Mrs
~UlItll-laS q root garden ON her horse
she has fad Tor sleeping out o. doors
SElc sleeps Ip there winter a-o SUM
Wen I'll lots Of her letters she Srea KS
Of sending me tender wireless messages
from uD there III that garden Dgesu.
thai sound as II she loved me- And she
used 20 9e so glad that her little boy.
that we had the nickname of Pip f1r,
was so fond or ne.
Denies II Was Puppy Love"
she always tells ne about him In
her letters And she used 90 laugh and
tell him 10 kiss me nd say Goodnight.
papa And the IstIs fellow always di5.
willingly. too II wasn't puppy love
with me- il was the real thing and IT
took nearly nine years for her 20 md
our that hers wasn't
II knew no min would be q hero IN
the public eye coming out as the plain
tiff in d breach Of promise suit But II
IS the only redress I've got for being
badly LreatcC-foT spending my youth
WorshipiuE a false goddess
Yes, those photographs are OF Helen
and myself playing at Romeo and Juliet
me going up the rope ladder she at
an upper window waiting 10 receive ne
or course, it was just little bit of
81 81
always lnventi0E little funny romantic
stunts like that for us to perform
i wrote poem about one Of them
our experience at her famous cat bali.
where 7 appeared as The Frog Who
Would a-Wooing Co and she appeared
as Miss Iabby F'UTpaW- II was pub
lS1ed in one OF the Stanford papers,
" nat this fellow ETISWOld needs and
deserves IS a gaming said Mrs Smith
20 a reporter in discussing the suit
MIS- Woodruff, who inherited about
s2,p1o,000 from her fathers estate. and
who lives luZurICuSly at Linden Lodge,
her handsome estate, EaG hurried away
from Stamford 10 avoid being inter
viewed She had boarded her steam
yacht the Viking. AMI was anchored far.
out IN the bay expecting TO sail on
two days cruise, when d reporter sue
Ceeded IN reaching the yacht and get
ting aboard. At first Mrs Smith re-
fused TO talk, but later consented to
give her side Of tho story. With her
were several friends and her twelve
year-oId son
Says Griswold Wanted Money.
This fellow Griswold." she said.
was Ike a son 10 me. His people are
poor. and several years ago his mother
introduced HIN TO me He was musical.
and 7 thought I would make a protece
Of him For several years I treated
him as 1 would my son, and If ever
wrote 70 him II was only IN pleasant,
Vein and cheerful, while on the other
hand II he ever had any other thoughts
toward me 1t was puppy love
Really the whole thing y too ride
Ulous 10 notice, Il il We're not for the
slcTl0uSneSS Of the blaCkTaiI feature
FOR several years I assisted him fnan-
claIly-lt seemed ne would never work
Tnen SDpealInC to me Some time ago
ne unt er7vent an operation for appen-
olcitiS and advanced him $500 for
the time he was in the Stamford Hos
pitaI
Less than six weeks ago he came TO
me and asked for loan Of $500 I re-
fused him. Then he became abusive and
said nasty things about some of ms
friends I ordered hir2 from the house
and when did he looked at me and
SUeeTIuElE said Your letters viii T0nI-
nice In print, won't thew Fft do Won
know did not think any man could be
cur enough to give ont the letters of a
woman friend and helper as this man
has done.
Doubt Thrown On Sanity.
Now, that he has started this thing.
I want 10 say that I do not believe he is
alone in It His mother was forever
asking me for money Only last March
his brother sent me a begging letter.
which I refused to notice From that
time on Russell did not act as usual
toward me-
In the complaint GriswOId has entered
/ IN supreme court aSains- Mrs. Smith, he
says he became acous inted with her
when ne was a high school publ and
I that from that early date there was
always a close affection between them.
Mrs smiths husband, from whom she
is divorced was at one time mayor Of
Stamford Her father was James d.
Smith. a banker, and commodore OF the
New York Yacht Club
In her letter to Griswold Mrs Smith
addressed him as -'Sfegfried'7 and signed
herself "BTUnnhilde.''