The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-14
HARTMAN NIECE
MYSTERY OF RENO
Mrs. Thurston's Joining Divorce
Colony Pathetic Sequel to
b ...s.4 Secret II t, Marriage.
HUSBAND HoPELEssLY I'LL
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Separation, From Lawyer, for
Whom She Gave Up Riches
Still Unexplained.
HUSBAND H0PELEsSLY I'LL

New York, November 1.-THE mys.
terry involving. the arrival OF a Mrs.
Mary u. Thurston, in Reno New, was
cleared. yesterday by her identification
as the neice of the late Edward II.
Hartman. railroad ihnahcier. shs is
the wife OF Charles story Thurston, a
young Boston lawyer now an invalid
at saranac Lake,-N. Y.
The story or3herscourtship, marriage
and her separation from her husband,
until now has been closely guarded
secret. AS. told yesterday by one OF
her closest iof Kin, 1T 10 as follows:
MRS. Mary E. Thudston Is tive daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dewar
SImons, of New. York.Ctty and Arden,
the country seat OF the late L. FL. tiar.
riman. Hey mother was Lie sister OF
the great financier, and her parents
still .spend I'm ost, OF Jd year. on, the
Hartman estate
Meets and Love tThurstop.
Mary Slmons. entered society as the
niece; OF Edward Henry Hartman
erings her favorite :therpe was art
She said that If she cou.d become a
successful painter heridream OF earthly
,iappihess would be reallzed9 J.
told her how hard he was striving for
success at the bar even though he
feared sometimes that his health would
fail. Ills story awoke new chord.
engaged.
Shortly after the engagement a
member of the family asked her il
she realized how grave decision
she had made in accepting strug-
cling young lawyer instead OF some
I'll H. cy
81 Would -nther have Charles
Thurston than all the millions in New
York was her answer
Welded Six Yenrs Ago.
THE couple We're married six years
.agei Miss Mary Hartman, daughter
of, e. III. ,Harrinan, who is now the
wife of Charles Cary Rumsey, the
sculptor was a bridesmaid. Mr.. Thurs
ton went back to his law practice III
Boston, and worked so hard that his
health gave away. He fell i'll with
typhoid.
Bride. indeed. it was said that his
recovery was largely due to her nurs-
ing and care. Again he attempted to
left a cough. which developed into
consumption. The doctors advised him
to exile himself in the Adirondacks
THE husband and wife refused to
listen to the physicians For time
lliey ulduc tllclI tlbule al Vel. Ue
lfeving that the air Of the Ralnapo
Mountains would work cure.
But the invalid grew weaker When
at last twas decided that he must
I live in a sana toriunl, he went to an
| institution at Liberty, ~, Y. His wife
accompanied him. She refused to lis
ten to the protests of some of her
friends. who said that she herself
would risk Infection
They Sndd enYyc Separate.
/ 'wssTfien the Two separated as sud
denly as they met ana tel in love
witt neaesfi n ther Tie'iwife returned
alone from Liberty and made her
b ome with her parents at Arden. That
was about three summers ago. She
refused to speak of her husband. ex-
cept to say that she believed he was
slowly recovering. When asked If II
was true. that he had at last per-
suadsd her that she should not waste
her life for his sake.s she would only
shake her head in silence.
From Liberty, Mr. Thurston went
to saranac Lake.. N. Y. His physicians
say that evil never recover sufti-
eiently. to leave the mountains. When
she went,to Reno last September she
departed so quietly that only her fam
lily knew of her going" 80
At Reno lit was learned yesterday
that Mrs. Thurston has taken a suite
of rooms at the Riverside II tel. N one
In the divorce colony knows of her
exact identity. She first arrived in
Reno on September g. departed soon
:i;interWard. and then returned even