New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
MRS. STALLO SEEKS DIVORCE
Former Wife of Dan r. Hanna
Charges Cruelty.

! Cleveland Jan. Mrs. May Harrington
Stallo formerly the wife OF Dan r. Hanna
J this afternoon filed suit for divorce iron
! Edmund X. Stallo. formerly a Cincinnati
attorney, but now of New York. Cruelty
and gross neglect are charged in the bill.
The petition which was filed in Common
| Pleas Court charges that Mr.. Stallo failef
to support the plaintiff, that he had heape'
/ indignities upon her and that he had ever
threatened to beat her and would have
| done 80 on one occasion had not her sol
by her former &c interfered She al
leges she was forced to leave an apart
ment she had furnished as her home tc
avoid meeting Objectionable companions
her husband invited to visit him.
The Stallos were married in April. 1908.
in this city. Mrs. Stalos first matrimonial
venture took place when az a young girl
she eloped with Dan r: Hanna, son OF
the late Senator Mark Hanna. Soon
stories were told that the young couple
were continually quarrelling, and finally
I'm 1885, eleven years after her marriage,
Mrs. Hanna obtained n divorce. The GUS
tody Of the three children was given to her
and Hanna was ordered TO provide for
them.
In 1899 when Hanna learned his former
wife was planning 10 go abroad, he secured
a court order appointing his father guard
ian OF the children and prohibiting her
from taking them outside the jurisdiction
Of the State of Ohio. lie sent detectives
TO watch the house where she and the chill
dren we're. but while they were guarding
ha 10 children pS-
capped by the rear
Mrs Hanna came 10 New York and here
Hanna obtained a writ of habeas corpus
from Justice McAdam. friend, however.
the Baroness de Palland, aided Mrs. Hanna
I'm getting aboard the Campania, her hus-
bands detectives failing to serve the writ
which they sent Mrs. Hanna concealed in
a box of roses.
The first intimation that the Stallos were
AT odds with each other came in 1908 and
was followed by a brief separation The
two were reconclled through the efforts ot
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Weaver Loper. of Gin
cinnatI. The couple again became es-
tranged last year. following Mrs. Stallo's
trim abroad ON her return to this coun-
trv she took separate apartments at the
Waldorf Astoria.
Stallo's first wife was Miss Laura Nc
Donald. only child of the late Alexander
Mcdonald at one time vice-prcsident or
the Standard oil Company. She died when
the elder of her two daughters was two
years old.
In August. 1910, Stallo applied TO Surro-
gate Cohalan for an allowance as guardian
for the maintenance Of the two daughters.
The request was refused because of failure
to show that his own income was insJtf~
cient. Later on the application of four
surety companies the Surrogate revoked
The letters OF administration issued to Static
AS administrators of the estate In New York
'of Alexander Mcdonald.
One of the daughters, Miss Helena Nc
Donald Stallo, achieved some notoriety last
YEAR by breaking her engagement TO Nils
In December, 1911 Stallo filed with the
Surrogate his accounting as guardian OF
tho nerson and estates of his children under
The will of their grandmother, asking to
be relieved from further responsibility The
children also inherited their grandfathcr's
estate, which is still I'm process OF settle
rlent.