Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-28
TIRES OF HER BONDS
American Girl Repents Union
With Japanese.
DAUGHTER OF CLERGYMAN
Father and Mother Lease Cottage for
Her in Reno.

RENO. New. May 2S.--A few days ago
an aged man. his wife and a woman
carrying in her arms a child of dis
tinctly Japanese features arrived in
Carson City. and the party soon after
announced that they were in the mar
ket for a residence on a long lease
They were soon domiciled in Il neat
little cottage in the residence portion
of the town, and all would have gone
well had not a certain woman met the
man of the party in the street and rec
ognized in him the Rev. Archdeacon
Emery of the Episcopal diocese of Cali
fcrnia, and 1t was soon known that
the party known as Mr.. and Mrs. Alb
bolt and Mrs. Deacon and child were
none other than the ones who had fig
ured in the sensational stories of last
year, when the daughter of the arch
deacon was married to the japanese
servant, Gunjiro Aoki. in the Trinity
Episcopal Church in Seattle March 81
1909.
Preliminary to Divorce.
r j. Abbott departed Wednesday
night for his home. leaving the women
of the family in Carson City, where
they will remain to get the six months
residence which is necessary to dis
solve the bonds which unites Califor-
mia girl to a subject of the mikado. A
newspaper man visited the tiny red
brick cottage. The question was put
concerning the reason OF the arrival
and taking up of residence in Carson
City.
Mrs Abbott the mother, informed the
reporter that she was there for her health
and her daughter had simply accompa
MED her. Upon asking her to make a
point of view she replied: Il cannot speak
for my daughter. She must make her
own statements"
The reporter suddenly prefaced a ques-
ton to the younger woman with the title
of Miss Emery At the mention of her
trying to conceal under the title of MRS.
Deacon" her face assumed it's first grave
depression Evasive answers followed.
she declaring that ''as the papers knew so
much about the case they should be
able to find out the rest
Miss Helen Gladys Emery. a pretty.
fragile young woman, married Gunjiro
! Aoki who had been a servant in her
parents former home in Seattle, March
% 1909 Aoki announced he is a descend
dant of an old Samurai family. His
brother, who kept fruit stand in San
Francisco. said the Aokis had been farm
ers for hundreds of years. He said, too,
Gunjiro has had many love affairs.
Marriage Vigorously Opposed.
Miss Emery's father. who was arch
deacon in the California diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, vigorously
opposed her marriage. Her mother sup
ported her determination. The California
laws forbid the marriage of Caucasian
to a japanese. When Miss Emery and
her mother left their home at Corte Ma
dera, a suburb of San Francisco, the
neighbors nearly mobbed them, threw
rice and lilies at the girl, taunted and
insulted her. She showed great firmness.
and issued a statement, III the course OF
which she said:
Il wish it to be understood that l love
Gunjiro Aoki, have loved him for some
time, and sincerely hope to maintain my
love for him. Whether l am right or
wrong in loving l do not know, and
in my present state of mind do not care.
love him. Our marriage is our own af-
fair and will take place as soon as we
see fit
Faithless, Shiftless and Lazy.
Aoki and Miss Emery were married in
Seattle; her father resigned as archdeacon.
Aoki and his bride went to live at Dun
lap WASH. where the Japanese took up
the hereditary occupation or market gar
dening and made a fizzle of it. A girl
baby was born to the couple July "a, 1909.
Then they removed to suburb Of Seat
tie. and Aoki became Indifferent to his
wife
1t was reported last December that she
had written pitiful letter to her father,
begging him to receive her and her baby.
She told her father, it was said. that her
husband had proved faithless, shiftless
and lazy spending his days with his Jap
anese friends, leaving her until he was
the money her father sent her. For an
swer, the Rev. Dr. Emery hurried to his
daughter.