The San Francisco call., 1910-08-10
DIVORCE SURPRISES
BANK Clerks Wife
Mrs. Emma NJ. Scott Asks the
Court for Permission to
Have Case Reheard

OAKLAND, Aug. 9.-All the way from
Hongkong came Mrs. Emma NJ. Scott
10 have set aside the decree of divorce
thar her husband, Percival Ramsey
Scott. paying teller of the First ma
tional bank Of Berkeley. obtained
against her. Mrs. Scott filed an affidavit
today in which she declared that Scott
obtained his decree by practicing de-
ception on the court
The suit for divorce was begun Feb
ruary pa six days after Scott sent his
wife $500, because he believed that she
had played upon his sympathies to get
this money and then laughed at him.
Married in 1905 in London. the SCOTS
lived together only two years. One day
Scott got letter from his wife in
which she said goodby William L.
J-lnsley, friend OF the husband, testi-
fed before Court Commissioner Crow
ell that her parents had told him that
she had eloped with another man. On
1lis testimony and on the strength of
letter written by Mrs. Scott to her
husband from Hongkong in January
ne was granted the decree OF divorce
Tuesday.
LETTER WRITTEN BY WIFE
The letter. begging for financial as
sistance and forgiveness, reads as fol-
My dear Percy: I am ashamed to
write TO you. on, you do not know
how badly ] have felt all year. /
would give 10 years of my life to live
ii all over. I would never, never have
left YOU / realize too late how truly
J. loved you. ] have been so 4unlucky
since 1 came out here. I was sick in
bed in AT2nfla I
carried out Of the house in the patrol
va gon TO the hospital so that 1 would
not die in the house. ] thought of you
during il all but I could not write. I
pra ged 10 live until ] could see you.
Percy, dear, YOU must help me. I
ann not strong and I can not do much.
III i work one night 1 must lay in bed
a couple Of days. The doctor says I
must 20 home and rest or I will have
10 have an operation. / am so sick and
I stiu owe d big bin and I can not pay
ii myself. Please, Percy. help me. 1
mast get back home. / want you so
badly. You were always so good to me
when I was sick and I love you so
much. If ] had $500 in go1d l could pay
my bin and go home on one OF the in
termediate boats FOX Sl25, and 1 want
TO go.
WANTED TO RETURN HOME
Il lay in bed and cry myself TO sleep
nearly every night, and I have gotten
so thin you would not know me.
The reason that I could not sign the
bIll Of sale was because I felt that that
hgme belonged to you and [ wanted to
come home 70 YOU and be good again,
but can not come now unless you help
me.
p Dearest boy in the world. please
borrow some money for me on the
house, ard then II you wish to sell it
when 1 get home we can and / shall
be SO happy with you again. il ii is
only one room Tor you and l 10 live in.
j VIII work so hard and cook all of the
flce things that you like, and we Will
e9e. 50 happy, dear.
do, sweetest husband, send me $500.
! want 10 come home TO you and hap
,,piness. All Of my love is yours.
Prom your own wife. EMMA,
DECREE GRANTED HUSBAND
Scott sent the money, s., 900 Mexican.
Shortly after he received receipts show
ing that his draft had been cashed, but
he did not hear from Mrs. Scott. He
decided that she had victimized him,
and he went ahead with his Divorce
suit
Mrs. Scott says that she was in ig-
uOrance Of the suit until she returned
10 this country and found that the de-
cree had been entered. No summons
was served on her, she declared, in
spite OF the fact that her husband knew
that she was in Hongkong and could
have served her with summons by mali,
as the law provides. She asked the
court for permission to ile an answer
10 the charges made against her by her