Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-02
ALIMONY FOR
WIFE IN RAID
Mrs. Wason Who Created
Scene at Atlantic High
lands Gets Award.
HUSBAND HAS CHARGES

Atlantic Highlands, Sept. 2:-Mrs.
Margaret A. Wason, of New York.
who on the night of July 20 last,
with a woman friend and a private
detective, raided an apartment at
the West End hotel, Atlantic High
lands, and found her husband, Harry
A. Wason, there with Mrs. Ida Beach.
was awarded by Justice Hendrick. of
New York, counsel fee of $3.50 and
temporary alimony of SIS a month
In her action for absolute divorce.
Wason did not deny his wife's al
legations that he had been in Mrs.
Beach's company but corroborated a
statement made by her in her petit
ton for alimony that the institution
OF her action would be met by him
with charges she says are untrue.
Wason, In an affidavit submitted
by his counsel, alleges he was COM
PEELED to leave his wife on account
OF her ~fondness for alcoholic stimu-
lants and her relations with DR..
Walter H.. Conley, of No. 272 West
One Hundred and T~wenty-sixth
street, who had attended both pro
REASONABLY. The doctor denies the
truth of Wason's charge and saws
he cannot understand why Wason
should bring his name into the case
except for tn fact that he has not
hesitated to show that his sympa-
thies are with Mrs. Wason."
The Wasons were married at TUT
tonboro, n. H., August 23, 1900.
They came to live in New York in
1903, and according to Mrs. Wason
met Mrs. Beach at Harrison, N. Y.
during the summer of 1909. Mrs,
Beach at the time was staying at
P~ortchester.
Since then my husband has neg
Iected me and our home,' says Mrs.
Wason. Il have seen him with Mrs.
Beach, and he has admitted calling
on her at her residence, 100 West
Eighty-ninth street.
Saturday, July 9. nv husband
left our apartment, and has not re
turned, with the exception of one
night, when he told me he was STAY
ing at Atlantic Highlands, and on
the night of July 10, when he slept
at home"
Mrs. Wason became convinced her
husband was with Mrs. Beach and
telephoned to her fiat. She received
an answer that Mrs. Beach was at
the West End hotel. Then she ask
ed Mrs. Anne Terry and A. e. Blaine
to accompany her there.
She learned that a Mr.. and Mrs,
Beach were there. They called in a
policeman and went to the room oc-
cupied by "Mr. and Mrs. Beach,
Ihey found Wason In bis pajamas
and Mrs. Beach In a kimona, Mrs.
Wason says. Then she brought suit
Wason filed an affidavit In which
ne asserted he and his wife had
llFed happily until she began to
come home intoxicated. He. alleged
that he charged his wife with init
macy with Dr. Conley and that she
confessed she had allowed the doctor
TO kiss and hug her and hat she had
sat on his lap, but she denied there
had been any wrongdoing. "'a"
Lawyers Avery and Schlesinger. in
reply to this statement, filed another
affidavit by Mrs. Wason, in which
she denied she was ever intoxicated
in her life. She admitted she had
stayed out a few nights, but said she
had to do So on account of Wason's
brutality.
Once he beat me-" she said. 80
that the membranes of my nose we're
broken, and he often choked me un-
til l became almost unconscious"
.Wason also alleged that he a
told by w. J.. McCue, a laundryman.
that in 1905 he found DR.. Conley at
breakfast in the Wason apartments
with Mrs. Wason. Conley, according
to McCue, bought whiskey, beer,
steak, fruit and chops, and Mrs.
Wason cooked them. ALI this is de-
MED by Mrs. ,Wason.