The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-01
Dixon-kreish EmbrosIio at Springfield
Should Certainly Furnish Food
For The Cos
sips.
EXCHANGE OF WIVES
This Would Have Been Done Except
ing for the Question Of Division
OF The Chill.
dren.

as correspondent in suit for divorce
filed Friday by l.. NJ. Dixon, supreme
treasurer of the Court Of Honor,
Charles B. Kreigh, the well known
East Monroe street hardware mer-
chant, has turned on his accuser and
fled application for divorce from
Mrs. Millie Mae Kreigh in the circuit
court, Dixon, among others, is charg-
ed with being unduly intimate with
Mrs. Kreigh.
The Dixon-Kreigh imbroglio threat
ems to develop sensations as the con-
testing parties all declare they will
fight the charges and counter charges
made against them.
Kreigh's bill which was filed by
Attorney Thomas d. Masters, Is even
more sensational in character than
that instituted by Dixon. Many alleg
ed incidents of misconduct between
Dixon and Mrs. Kreigh are cited.
Their relations are said to have be-
come unduly intimate during the year
1906 while the national convention OF
! the Court of Honor was in session in
Detroit, Mich. Dixon attended as a
| delegate from Springfield He Is
said to have invited Mrs. Kreigh to
attend the sessions as his personal
guest and is alleged to have enter
!. tanned her lavishly at "a hotel opposite
4 the Cadillac.
4 During April of 1906, it is alleged
that Dixon and Mrs. kreigh took a
trip to Decatur, putting UP at the st
Nicholas hotel. On October Is and
November 10 OF 1909, Mrs. Kreigh is
said to have entertained Dixon at Tel
3 residence, 207 South Walnut street
i A. r. Adams, who j said to be 8
resident of Taylorville, George Thomp
son, Pullman car conductor of Kan
sas City, are also named as cores
pondents in the bill Mrs. Kreigh is
A said to have misconducted herself
with Adams on trips to Chicago ant
!, Pittsield, ILL.,, and also in this city
Thompson Is said to have visited De
catur and st. Louis in her company
The hardware man says he discov
cred his wife's indiscretions through
the finding of love notes addressed L
her and others and by her to her al
legged admirers. The letters will b,
produced at the hearing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kreigh were married
in Springfield, April 30, 1893. The.
have one child. Ellie S. Kreigh, aget
!. 15 years, of whom the husband de
mands custody. The couple separat
ed on October Is. 1909.
According to the allegations in TIL
two bills, and statements by friend
of the husbands. the men discovers
the alleged misconduct on the part O
their wives at about the same time
and it was suggested that they ente
into an agreement to exchange wives
The latter we consulted in regar
to the matter but the deal is allege
to have fallen through over the fai
ure of the contending parties to agre
as to the disposition of the children
!. The two homes were completed
Z wrecked, however. and since sepal
: ated from her husband, Mrs Kreig
2 has been conducting boardin
NOuSe Ill oOuIn FllIn SlTeSt.
Kreigh, who is charged with in
proper conduct with Mrs. Dixon du
? ing the months of April, May, june
July, August, September and Octol
er. 1909, is preparing vigorous d.
fense against the charges.
He declares that no proof can /
offered of any misconduct betwee
himself and Mrs. Dixon
Dixon declares, however that th
: hardware man was found at the Dixo
: residence one night during Octobe
: 1909, when Dixon returned unexpec
: edly after he had announced his i
: tention OF leaving the city on a bus
ness trip. A colored woman who
now employed bv Mrs. Kreigh,
, said to be an important witness al
:, will testify as to what transpired ;
= the Dixon home.