The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-08-19


little girl I would like to spend s1o.-
900. 900 on
BROKE A CANE OVER HER
EscoRvs HEAD.
u so. word one day that the pair
were TO sail for Europe on the Maure.
tania. I interfered and Mr.. Palmer
sailed alone. Ny wife came back to
live with me for a short time and then
left me. next met her at One Hun
dred and Seventh street and Broadway.
She was with . real es ate broker, and
I broke q cane over his head. My wife
had me arrested and I was arraigned
before Magistrate Cornell. The case
was thrown out.
On May "a, 1911, my wife had me
arrested on a charge OF abandonment.
I was arralgned before Magistrate
Marsh. in Staten Island. and the case
was dismissed. on Dec. II last I was
arrested again on the same charge
and arraigned before Magistrate
Handy In Stapleton. Again the case
divorce proceedings before Justice
Maddox In the New York Supreme
Court last May, and the action was
dismissed. Last December she sued
for separation IN the Brooklyn gu
prems Court with the same result"
sAIp ALL HIS PATIENTS FELL
IN LOVE WITH HIM.
Mrp Edmunds firs. sued Tor q divorce
in 1907. She named ~ correspondent
Miss Mesaiina weese, who had been a
patient Of her husband. Mrs. Edmunds
made a statement at the time that her
husband won the heart Of every pretty
girl for whom he pulled n tooth. The
a tlakh M.
dred and Fourth street at tho time she
brought the suit.
In a cross suit Dr.. Edmunds charged
his wife with undue friendship for Noah
Palmer. President of the Knickerbocker
Chocolate Company. and with . captain
In the Ninth Coast Artillery. then sta
toned at Fort wadsworth. Mr.. Palmer
went abroad Just before the divorce
action. In his papers the dentist said
that Mrs. Edmunds had told him that
Mr.. Palmer asked her TO elope with
him.
The case was long deferred and IN
1911 Mrs. Edmunds started an action in
New Jersey. DIR. Bdmunds succeeded in
proving that the New Jersey courts had
no jurisdiction. Later came her charge
OF abandonment
Mrs. Edmunds told the police to-
day that her husband had been wild
West show rider and fancy shot
when she met him in California in
1891. She went to Reno with him
and he began his career as a dentist
there. They came to New York. she
said. about twelve years ago.
Mrs. Each left her husbands bed at
the hospital at O'Clock this afternoon
with the highes. hopes that no would
recover.
THE news OF the shooting, while OF
course II was a terrible shock" she said
as she sat on the porch Of her home
with a number OF sympathetic friends
about her. was not altogether q sur
prise. Mr.. Each had been greatly wor-
ried by the woman's insistence on going
to his ONCE. He frequently told me he
was afraid she would do something des-
perate. AZ 20 that husband OF hers
and his intimation that my husband
had any relations with her except in 4
professional way, II Is a perfectly hor-
rid thing TO say. and leave the answer
TO everybody on Staten Island. Every.
body knows he could not have been a
dearer or more devoted or truer hus-
band"
John r. Clark. Mr.. Fanr's associate,
SAID Mr.. Each mover allowed the
woman TO be alone In the once with
him and frequently kept her waiting
until he could have Q witness Of the
conversation present.
District-Attorney Each was elected in
1910 on the Democratic and Independ-
ence League tickets. He had been an
Assistant District-Attorney for two
years. He IL young and was graduated
from the New York Law School only
seven years ago.
Immediately after his election he be-
gan . campaign to wipe out disorderly
resorts In Richmond Borough with the
aid OF the Mems Church League. He
has been talked Of as Democratic can
didats for Borough President at the next
citv election,