Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-06-16
FATE IS UNkIND,
HUSBAND IS VICTIM
OF CLEVER WIFE
Impresario Pursued Actress
Wife and Found She Was
Divorced Three Years Be-
fore-Gaye Her Money.

San Francisco June i6.-All the
strangeness which has made the plays
OF Ibsen aud Maeterllnck Fascinating 10
students ~ the drama Of life. no Longer
appeals 10 Madame Margaret Barry, IN
private life, Mrs. James Fitzpatrick, an
Oakland society woman, whose brilliant
Interpretations OF the worlds greatest
dramas have won for her world wide
reputation, for In real life. so her hus-
band says she has lived a life more
strange than the strapgest Or her
theater roles.
And the tale OF her life, replete with
surprises and denonements, In which
James IA. Fitzpatrick. we'll known inl-
presario, appears la an unwilling role
as the discoyerer of her duality, as he
calls It, IL soon TO be unfolded In ali lis
ramifcations IN an Oakland superior
court.
Fitzpatrick is to bring suit within @
few days 70 regain the custody Of his
baby boy, Russell, who, according 60
Fitzpatrick, has been told that his
father liz dead
Another unwilling character la the
comedy drama, for this story has It's
humorous side, is G. A. Carver. of Chi
cago the famous Yale athlete and assoc
ciate OF Wheat KingP Patten, OF Chi
cago. Caryers name Will be men,
toned in the legal papers to be filed by
Fitzpatrick and the light that he VIII
be placed in according to Fitzpatrick,
viii prove most unenyiabie, It WAS
Carver who entered Yale some years
ago as weafling When he was grad
uated he carried away with him from
college all sorts OF athletic honors and
In the class history 81 Yale he appears
as the strongest man that Yale ever
sent out into the world.
Named as Affinity.
Carver will be named as Nine
| Barrys affinity in the complaint
| which Fitzpatrick admits Is being
drawn up by his attorneys Only last
month Carver had domestic troubles or
/ his own In Chicago. where he was sued
/ by his pretty wife, Louise, Tor abandon
! ment.
For three years, Fitzpatrick alleges.
4 he visited his wife. iavished attentions
on her and gave her all the money she
| asked Tor believing that she WAS still
I his wife, but suddenly one day at p
! Colorado summer resort his wife In
formed him very dramatically that she
| was no longer his wife and that she
had secured divorce Ia Oakland three
/ years back.
Fitzpatrick, whose business engage
ments compelled him to travel all over
A the country with opera stars, had ar
rived at this Colorado resort In Ruena
Vista with a aix-shootar In his pocket
because he had learned that Carver had
asaess accompanying her wherever she
| went Also he was thoroughly aroused
he says, because at the fashionable
Adams hotel IN Denver he had accir
| dentaily discovered the name OF C. a
!; Carver and wife on a hotel register. Ht
made inquiry about the hotel ana
III ascertained for his own satisfaction
that Mrs. Carver ia dress and ap.
pseTa;nes Slosaiy rassmbsea Mr. Estz
Buena VISTA and purchased what h
today called AN infant Calling gun
III Trouble at B1ens Vista.
n OF course. when Fitzpatrick bough
the weapon he thought lie was entities
to suggest to Madame Barry that sh'
cease receiving the attentions which, h,
contends, the Yale man was bestowini
upon her, and he was going to max
Carver bend his knees and beg for hi
life, but Mrs Fitzpatrick ayerted
tragedy by confiding In her husband
that after all he was only a memhel
Of an alimony army and that Ii he eve
stepped across the California bonndar,
he would find that he was some months
IN arrears In alimony payments.
II The revelation that he vas wifeles'
sent him to California in a hurry. fo
Mrs. Fitzpatrick had told him among
other things that his baby son was Il
the custody of her father. w. H. Rus
sell. master mechanic OF the Southern
| Pacific, who lives at E'Iihurst. hrs
Fitzpatrick added the statement tina
her husband would not be allowed I,
1 see her child.
4 When Fitzpatrick arrived here b,
went at once to the Russell home ant
demanded that he be allowed to see tn,
boy. But Russell, Fitzpatrick says wa
ali wrought up and when the irnpresa
. rio knocked at the door Of the Russell
home he peeked Into the twin barrel
of a shotgun, and this according Il
Fitzpatrick Is what his ex fatherinlav
said:
III If you ever cross my path again III
shoot you as / would dog" and as h
handled the shotgun like a practica
hunter, Fitzpatrick said, he left tn
cess TO see his boy.