The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-10
SAYS PULFORD DESERTED Her
WIFE OF LAFE ANNIE P1xLEi-S 8,
HUSBAND SUES.

Defendant Attacks Divorce Decree Do
tanned 90 Years Age sad Alleges laiz
Marriage and I've Osnses were In
valid-He Got a8O0. 900 Pron Actress
Mrs. Lillian Fulford applied to Supreme
Court Justice Davis yesterday for Q liberal
allowance for alimony and counsel fee
pending a suit she has brought against
Robert Fulford. The argument on the
motion was brief becauss Mrs. FulSord's
lawyer got an adjourumens after Full
ford's attorney asserted that shs had
committed perjury when abe obtained
the marriage license At the City Hall
In stating that she had been married
only twice. when Nilford was really her
fourth husband. He also declared that
the marriage was illegal.
The attorneys would not discuss the
nature OF the action or tho identity Of
tho litigants. but it was learned thar Mrs.
Fulford is suing for separation ON the
ground OF abandonment. The defend
ant was tho husband Of Anne Pixlsy.
the actress. who left him her estate. worth
moro than $500. 600. when she died In Lou
don. nearly twenty years ago. Mr.. Full
ford had been her manager prior 90 his
marriage to the actress. Counsel for
Mrs. Fulford told Justice Davis ysster-
day that Fuiford has an income Of s7o0
q month.
Why do you object to this motion for
alimonyf' asked Justice Davis when the
case was called
because I intend to attack the valid
ity Of tho marriage said Fulfords at
torney. The plaintiff was married In
1873 70 one Larkin and the following year
she obtained a divorce in the Brooklyn
City Court. This divorce decree was
not regular. since l.arlin was ordered
served by publication and the proper
service was not given. He never knew
OF the divorce until long afterward and
then he supposed it had been obtained
in Western State. After her marriage
to Iarkin the plaintiff married three
other men. the last being Fnlford She
her marriage To I.arkin from
Mr.. Fulford ard committed perjury
when she went To- tho City Hall with Mr..
Fulford 20 get her marriage license.
stating that she had been married only
three times
This plaintiff vas only a girl Of IL
" hen she married I-lrkin." put IN Airs.
fulford's attorney. 1t does not seem
likely that the court will upset "a decree
ssu.d forty years ago and which Larkin
has considered valid. because he
reinarr.ed after the decree was granted
The plaintiff married again after she got
her divorc. from Fulford and when her
husband died she married a third time
She has sOn by the second marriage.
She has attempted tn conceal nothing
Fnlford was sued III 1902 for 500 600
damages for breach Of promise nv Mars.
Nave. miAiner. who declared that sh..
met him IN iss3 at the Westminster Hotel
when she was attending a young women =
seminary In Irving place. Fnifori told
her he was In love with her she said
but di,in' want 20 marry 20 soon after
has wife'- death and finally she took trip
TO Europe with him. She said he induced
her TO accompany him about the country
Tor eight years by deciarinx that be would
carry out his promise to marry her.
II was said in Philadelphia last night
that Mrs Fuiford brought suit there
asi April against her husband and Full |
lords niece 10 restrain them from dis !
sIpatiDg property Fuiford owns Their. |
in order TO prevent her from com Pc ling
him 10 support her In this action MIR |
fulford said she WAS married on January
~ last IN New York and that after going |
10 Palm Beach and elsewhere with her
husband they went 10 Philadelphia. where |
he property Annie ri xley left to Etiiford |
~ She said that Fulford then came
inder the control Of his niece. Mrs Honey
seit. and that she was compelled TO return |
20 New York alone She said that Mrs
Honeyseft came 10 see her here and told |
ler that she would never sec Mr. Fulford !
again and that she need not look 10 him |
or support because he would deny that |
10 ever married her
Mrs. FtIlforh declared that Filford's
llece was keeping her husband AWAY
rom her and that she would have his |
'anity inquired into IL she could find him. |