The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-15
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AL|ENATED LOVE
Of YOUNG BRIDE
Walker Blames Ratcliffe
Family for Domestic
Tangle.
DESERTED BY WIFE
ON HIS HONEYMOON
Declaration Will Allege That
Kinsfolk Of Elizabeth Ratcliffe
Conspired to Part Couple
Within Six Hours Az
ter Marriage Was
Solemnized.

Thomas Grant waIkor. son Of VIII
liam Walker. of 33ll Floyd Avenue,
filed suit for $50. 900 in the Law and
Equity Court yesterday against H. L..
Frank Il, John l.. MISS Alice and Mrs.
Alice Raiclife, kinsfolk OF his young
wife. who. after six hours OF married
life last April returned TO her parents
and has since refused 70 live with him.
Tho fling of the suit begins the
second chapter Of II story of tangled
domesticity which was the sensa tion OF
the day more than two months ago.
Walker. who is thirty one years old.
married twenty -two-year old Elizabeth
Ratc!iffe on Friday morning. April %.
and both left the same afternoon for
Washington. BY the time the couple
reached Ashland a telegram from a
brother OF the bride called them back
10 Richmond The return to the city
was followed by an immediate es-
arrangement between the couple, and
the breach still continues
AiIcnntcd Her Affections.
Attorney l. .. WcndenburE. counsel
for the plaintiff, said last night that
the declaration setting forth MIR Walk
crs grounds for the suit viii be filed
next Monday. II VIII ail.gc. among
other things. he said. that the defend :
ants. all of whom arc k!nsfolk OF the
bride. conspired together 10 ALLEVIATE
her affections. and that they are direct =
II responsible for her change Of heart
toward the man whom She has mar
lied
Accordlnr TO Mr. Wcndenburg. Eliza
beth Ratcliife and Thomas Grant Walk
az were swecthcarts for eight years.
and We're engaged Tor eighteen months
l'nmediately prior 70 their marriage.
The defense is prepared 10 SHOW. he
said. that on the night before the Two
we're married the girl told the young
man that II they didn't get married the
very ucXt morning they would never bc
able TO do so. because Frank Radcliffe.
her brother. would be back in town and
would prevent II.
The plaintin viii charge also says
counsel. that the telegram that in
tcrccptcd the couple at Ashland ana
which caused the TWO TO abandon th"ii
honeymoon at Doswcn Was false ana
calculated onl: TO further tho designs
az Tho defendants II reported the
mother Of the bride TO De prccarious-
Is H. and asked for her immediate
rcturn 10 nj the bedside. when
the two returned, II is charged, they
found Mrs 4 J.. RatciiTc. the mother
of the Srid,. feeding chickens in the
back yard OF the family residence iu
Highland Park. and well a. ever
Bridc Goes TO Pittsburgh.
Al the station in Richmond the
bride and groom were met by the girvs
brother. who forthwith conducted her
home. Within = Tow days The young
bride left for Pittsburgh, whcr" she
has remained ever since, obdurate 20
all overturos on the part of her nus
baud. II Is understood that he ras
Kept up n continuous CORES onde nee
with her and that ne has visited her
once in Pittsburgh.
Thv young woman, according TO
friends. has since her arrival in the
PENNSYLVANIA city found employment
with the prudential Life Insurance
Company's Pittsburgh office. and IS
living with a friend Mrs Fred Wads-
worth. Walker II is stated, visited
her there recently and gavc her thirty
days TO return TO him, warning her
that II shc did not come back within
that time he would bring suit.
Friends OF Walker say that he has
throughout tho whole tangled affair
remained loyal and devoted TO MS Wife
end tnat the enforced separation has
given him deep concern. He is known
to possess peculiar ability. having at
one time exhibited and taken a prize
at the Fredericksburg Fair for fancy
picture frame OF his own design
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