Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25
CUYLER LOCATED
FOR HIS WIFE
BY WOMAN
Farmers Spouse Located Geor-
gas Famous CosmopoIite AZ
ter SIeuths Failed.

oP0u lO-udy lnaL a woman, lndlge-
nous to the red hills of Jones County,
succeeded where detectives of the
worlds most famous agencies failed
in informing Mrs. Grace Barton Guy
Ter Of the whereabouts of her hus-
band, Telemon Cruger Smith Cuyler,
Georgia's most famous cosmopolite
and delitante, after sleuths had
sought him in vain everywhere from
the widest regions of war-torn Mex
leo to the gayest boulevards of Paris.
The woman is Mrs. D. B. Chiles, a
neighbor of Cuyler, and she is a
friend of Mrs. Cuyler in the divorce
action inaugurated by her in Califor-
MIA courts after the quest for the
cosmopolite proved vain and his wife
was compelled to serve notice of her
suit by publication.
Mrs Chiles is not a woman de-
tective of the type now so favored by
fiction writers. She is the wife of
a Jones County farmer and has prob
ably never seen a sleuth, but she has
well-developed power of reason
ing.
Finds Him at Plantation.
Two weeks ago when she received
letter from Mrs. Cuyler asking her
to try to find from Jones County
sources the present abiding place of
the much sought for husband, she
took the rather prosaic method of
inf 0sftf nva nv ne 10
CuyleTs home and seeing him with
her own eyes. Then she went to the
Wayside telegraph office and inform
ed Mrs. Cuyler by wire.
According to Mrs. Chiles' infor-
nation, received from Mrs. Cuyler,
Cuyler has been playing hide-and-
seek with officers endeavoring to
serve him with the notice of divorce
proceedings for months. She had re-
ports that he was hiding in Mexico,
that he had caused letters of his to
her to be mailed from San Francisco
to throw the sleuths off the trail,
that he had gone to Europe or was
making trip TO the Orient
Perhaps Mrs. Chiles reasoned that
If a cosmopolite and a dilettante
wanted to hide, obviously the best
place for him to secrete himself would
be his Jones County cotton planta-
ton, for a cosmopolite is supposed to
be anywhere but at home.
Perhaps she didn't reason at all,
but she found the Cosmopolite seated
on the front verdanda of his ances-
trial hall and he was turning his toes
out to greet the glow of the sun. as is
customary for Jones County farmers
Couple Discussed Divorce.
to do.
In letter received from Mrs. Guy
Ter yesterday, Mrs. Chiles was told
of the long chase of Cuyler. Accord
ing to Mrs. Cuyler the probability of
divorce was first discussed at a con-
ference between her husband and At
tOrney Powers, her counsel, in the
latter part of 1912 in Alameda Cali
fornia, where Mrs. Cuyler now is with
her mother, Mrs John Barton. No
decision was reached at that time,
and Cuyler soon left for CaIeXico
Cal, on the Mexican border, where
he had organized the Southern Cot
ton Company to grow long staple cot
ton on a vast plantation just across
the United States line.
4 don't know what he did there"
writes Mrs. Cuyler but l am told
that his extravaganza was shocking
Anyhow, l know that he left there IN
a hurry"
This she found from officers she
had sent to serve the divorce papers,
having decided on this action after
their Alameda conference A copy
of the summons was sent to CalexiCo,
but according to the officers Cuyler
promptly isappeared across the Dor
der and the sheriff had to return
with the papers not served.
Later he was traced, according TO
Mrs. Cuyler's information, through
Arizona and then East to New York
She had also been told that he was
reported variously in Europe and the
orient.
Leading Life of Reciuse.
About two weeks ago. according
to Mrs Chiles information, on the
birthday of Telemon Cuyler, Jr., the
Ave year-old son of the torn pair. a
package of presents was received at
the California home of the mother
1t was addressed in Cuyler's hand
writing and postmarked San Fran
CISCO. Wayside people say that Guy
Ter has been at his mothers planta
tier for at least three weeks.
How much longer he has been
there they do not know. Since mis-
return he has been leading the life
of a recluse. On his former visits
to his Jones County place he made
daily trips to the Wayside Station
discussions, so universal on the
porches of rural general stores.
Cuyler is taking the news of the
proceedings with the utmost non
chalance. He apparently is in no
hurry to decide on the exact nature
of his action in the matter.
THE affair is very complex" he
says and very interesting, too, no
doubt" he added as an afterthought
Il may come to Atlanta in a few
weeks to consult my counsel. 1
hardly know exactly when. In the
meantime. l am very busy here. Our
farming is quite extensive and l am
preparing to build a new house. In
fact, l have drawn the plans myself
and will superintend the construc-
ton. Then the fish are biting SPLEEN
didly now and 1 spend an hour or so
each day with my rod. My days are
thus rather completely employed, and
this matters coming up may alter
my present plans. As I said before,
II has many sides. 1t Is extremely
cou,pIay and Interesting