New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
WROTE P|QUANT LETTERS
Clements Separation Suit DIS
closes Bitter Epistles.
ONE YEAR SUFFlCED FOR IN
So Husband Wrote-Wlfe Re
plies: Il Love You, Honey,
Bad as You Are.

Piouant letters were exchanged by MIS-
Josephine Clements and her husband D.
Morgan Clements, a well known mining
engineer and geologist, as shown by the
wife's suit for a separation.
The couple were married In April, 1913
They lived happily until May, 1909 When
Clements had to go to Mexico MIS-
Clements went to visit some friends In
Alabama The husband refused therealtef
to live with his wife. When Clements re-
turned to this city ne went to live at the
Engineers Club.
According to his wife, he wrote to her fof
blank checks that he gave her and ano'hef
time for $780, saying he wished to balance
his bank account. She sent the checks, ou'
he never returned them to her.
Mrs. Clements tried to effect reconcli1a-
tion but Clements insisted on separation
wherefore they entered into an agreement
under which the wife was to receive Sl2
month. The husband paid the money for
one month, less doctors bills incurred oy
the wife Then Clements went to Arizona
Mrs Clements followed him there, but ne
refused to see her, and she had to borrow
money when she returned here. she says.
Mrs Clements says that for year after
from her husband, and that he then ex-
pressed the hope he would be able to re-
tire from business in five years. She also
mentions a breach of promise suit brought
against Clements by woman named
Lillian Allen.
Clements says in his answer that when
he first met his wife, in the West. she was
a stenographer. She told him. he declares,
she ho1 aLt :.
he says he learned that it was she instead
being cruel and inhuman treatment and
desertion.
Clements says that Mrs Clementss father
left $4,000 to be divided between her and
her brother and sister, but she lost her
share in stock speculation, and spoke OF
committing suicide.
Mrs. Clements has always insisted on her
right to speculate. says Clements. and in
reply to his objections she called him
variously Dog, thief. fool, lunatic, idiot
and miser.'
Clements says that taking his wife's
word that she was a bookkeeper, he asked
her to open set of books for him. In
stead of doing that she went through AL
his books and papers, extracted every
tllIS Oh Ndlue anu tutH NIblc W his II
that he was "a crook.
There is an affidavit in the case by John
S. Wise, jr., counsel for Clements. and an
other by a friend. The latter says Mrs.
Clements told him her husband had a one
fifth interest In an ss.0C0,0o Arizona COM
pany, which the husband however, denies.
In one of his letters to his wife Clements
said he had been entirely disilusioned by
one year of married life, and adds
Il have studied YOU and myself during
the last year, and am convinced that IN
stead of being congenial and sympathetic
we are In the main antipathetic. When
congeniality. a strong steel cable which
binds people together. is lacking It is use-
less to try to hold together by a gossamer
thread of duty in fear of public opinion or
something else
Mrs. Clements replied to this piece OF
philosophy as follows:
You had It in your heart TO work my
ruin from the third week after you mar
ried me. | do not need your prescriptions
DR. Clements. per Jack Wise. and your
little brain ought to know that. When g
bug seeks shelter under a rotten log some
one is going to kick that log and expose it
Il love you, honey, bad as you are
Justice Goff granted Mrs Clements ali
mony of $50 a month and $3.50 counsel fee
pending the trial of her suit