The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-11-09
BRIDES FREEDOM
WON HIGHER Up
AFTER REFUSAL
Young Wife of Davis, Society
Photographer, Gets Decree
Page Declined.
HUSBANDS FOE AIDED.
Saw Davis Register at Hotel
With Woman-Court Holds
Proof Is Enough.
HUSBANDS FOE AIDED.

Davis vs. Davis--order signed" IL
tho County Clerks books to-day. Be-
hind II 10 an amazing story Of how
Mrs, Aida L. Davis, young and
wealthy Southern matron. won a secret
divorce decree over a Supreme Court
Justices head from Charles II. Davis
Of Davis q Sanford. photographer
The printed record OF the case In the
Appellate Division shows that Justice
Page rejected Referee Manfred w.
Ehrioh's accommodation that Mrs.
Davis be awarded . decree. It shows
that welton C. Percy. her counsel. then
went to the higher court. which su"'
tained the referee and reversed the gu
prsms Court Justice.
Nrs. Davis. . Nashville girl, who had
Lived abroad since she was two years
old. came TO New York in April. 1904
She was . unSuist. . pianist Of note
and interested in the occult. II was q
romance Of the studio between ths beau
tiful twenty-two-year-old girl and the
hfty-three-year-old man OF the business
world for whom she posed. They were
married . month later. on May Is. 1903,
In All Angels Church. by the Rev. DIR.
Townsend. Hardly was the ceremony
over than Mrs. Davis hurried back to
Europe TO pursue her studies. In 100
she returned and they lived At No. rs
West Eightisth street.
HOW HIS ENEMY GAME TO Dc
ePY or WIFE.
But summer and fall did not agree
and soon Mrs. Davis complained. She
met some Of her husbands frisnds.
among them Frederick c. Alden, one
time director in . Davis enterprise and
now connected with the Water Depart
msnt. She told Alden II he ever saw
Charley do nythins wrong" to tell her.
II CHANGED that year after. Dec. II.
istl Alden and . friend. Jack" Deg
dining at the Hotel Belmont. Alden
cav Davis and . woman enter. Davis
carrying = ANAL grip. From that mo-
msnt on Alden and Dsgnam became
MrA DaviSs witnesses. What they saw
and did was told by each to the referee.
Alden testified that he had known
Davis fifteen years. had sat with him
on dirsetoratss and had seen him sign
his name hundreds Of times. He and
Davis had quarrslied over business mat
tsrs and no longer spoke.
Here's . fellow ! know. Jack" no
said to Dsgnam. Hes not with his
wife. Let's see what he does"
They watched Davis and his "glrlish.
STACEY appearing" companion 90 up to
the clerks desk. Davis writing Charles
H Meyer and wife. Albany" The &C.
commodations did not suit Davis and he
and the young woman. . blonde. about
feet . inches IN height. went across
the street to the Grand Union Hotel.
where Alden saw Davis write In the
register. Charles II. Brown and wife,"
A beuboy took Davis's grip. the couple
got into an elevator and that was the
last seen Of them by Alden and Deg
nam.
The spies watched from sofa in
front Of the elevator an hour and half
and then departed, satisfied that the
couple had not left the hotel.
Rsfsrse Enrich submitted an eiabo-
rate opinion recommending a decree.
Justice Page refused to grant It.
APPELLATE DIVISION REvERsEs
PAGE; GRANTS DIVORCE.
Justice Page then directed Frederick
c. GLADDEN. to re-hear the testimony and
report. Before Mr.. GLADDEN. could begin
his hearings Lawyer Percy appealed to
the higher court. Ming his papers Aug
g. On Oct IS the Appellate Division re-
versed Justice Page. sustained Referees
Enrich and directed that an interlocu-
tory decree be fled In the County
Clerks once. The court awarded Mr..
Percy t390.sO In disbursements and SO
costs. which win DO assessed against
Mr.. Davis.
| Mrs. Davis and her former husband are
now abroad. she In Paris and he in
London. Referee Enrich was appointed
like hundreds of other referees chosen
by Supreme Court Justices for wealthy
litigants able TO pay the heavy referees
fees and escape publicity. The remark
able story this ten-months' nght for a
divorce behind closed doors and over the
head OF a Supreme Court Justice would
not have become known had It not been
that all Appellate Division cases are
printed and published.