Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-07-22
GIRL WINS HEARTS
OF HUSBANDS OF
HER TWO SISTERS
Angry Wives Expose Her Love
Affairs, and Man Boldly Adj
mits Housing the
Lass.

New York, July 16.-Three sisters
all young and pretty-are the prin-
cipal figures in a divorce action that
Mrs. Vivienne E.. Craigie, of No. 42o
West Forty-eighth street, has brought
in the Kings county supreme court.
She names Clarice Gill, her sister, two
years her junior, as the correspondent
Believe me- she said, to a reporter,
when a girl will steal the affections
Of her two brotherinlaws and then
elope with n of them, after having
caused the other TO forget his wire,
she deserves no sympathy and will get
none-from me, at least"
The sisters in this unique marital
tangle are Vivienne. who is %, and the
wife Of David Craigie, a building con-
tractor, who lives at No. 260 Twelfth
| ST., Brooklyn; Clarice Gill, unmarried,
aged Fl, also alleged to be living at No.
260 Twelfth street, Brooklyn, and Mrs
Audrey Fields, IS, a resident OF Bar
bados, West Indies.
Fields Home Broken Up.
According to the charges which Mrs.
Craigie has set forth in her divorce
complaint, she was married in May,
1906, in New York, and lived happily
with Mr.. Craigie in Brooklyn until July,
1907. About that date, she says, she
learned that Clarice, her sister, a
| caused a breach in the domestic peace
| Of Mrs. Fields, the other sister.
The information that was conveyed
to her caused her 10 pack her trunk
hastily and sail for tine West Indies.
On arriving at her sisters home, she
asserts, she found that Mr.. Field had
! become so infatuated with Clarice that
Audrey, his wife, had been forced to
resign as mistress OF the home in favor
of her older sister.
After some diplomacy, Mrs. Craigie
asserts she patched up the domestic
flaws in the household, and then in
vited her husband to come from New
York to Barbados and accompany her
back to this city. In due time Craigie
arrived. A short acquaintance with his
sisterinlaw, Clarice, Mrs. Craigie
charges, was sufficient to cause him to
forget his wife entirely. So much in
love was he with the charms Of the
middle sister hat when he set sail un-
eXpectedly for New York, Clarice. and
not his wife, accompanied him.
Finds cIarice in Her Home.
Mrs. Craigie charges hat on her
return to her Brooklyn home she found
Clarice Gill installed there in her place.
| The latter maintained that she had
married her brotherinlaw and was en-
titled to the same consideration as her
elder sister. Mrs. Craigie, unable to
tolerate the situation, consulted Attor-
ney Andrew ]. Smith, Of No. GO Park
row The divorce suit, naming Clartce
as correspondent, "a the result.
When the process server handed Mr..
Craigie the complaint in the divorce
action, Mrs. Craigie was present to
identity hSr husband. Clarice was also
there, holding a baby in her arms. The
mother kissed the child several times
and wept at the suggestion that she
might have to leave Craigie.
Where are o living now? Let ms
have our address, and I'll look you
up" Mrs. Craigie declares her husband
said to her in a business-like way.
Admits CIarice Is With Him.
We'll, if he thinks he can make up
with me after all this" she concluded,
he'll be a disappointed man."
Craigie has not yet answered the
complaint, but at his Brooklyn home
last night he stated that he did not
care to discuss any phases of the di-
vorce suit. He admitted that the young
woman in his home is his wife's sis
ter. He explained that he was DELHI
Grating with his lawyer the advisable
ity of bringing a counter suit.