Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-02
IS. WEIGH SUES TO
FORCE. EX-HUSBAND
TOILET HER VISIT SON
Mr. Baker Says Former Wife Now Spouse of Assistant Sec
rotary for Philippines, Tried to Poison Lads Mnd-ob-
ects to Her Saying Mr. ech Strews House With Roses

SO astonished at what his mother told
him he exclaimed. IF l don't lay ii
into dad tonight" Mr.. Baker says he
had to tell the boy the story of the
divorce before the lad was Peconciled
to remain at his home.
Mrs. WEIGH explains the incident
at the Waldorf in this manner as set
down by her attorney:
"Goaded to desperation. your petit
toner secured for an hour or two
possession of her son and used the
opportunity to give publicity, feeling
that she IL 4 no other weapon and
because she knew not what else to
do. Within a couple of hours your
petitioner was followed, her son was
taken from her, and she has since
that time been refused permission to
see him at any place or under any
circumstances"
West Indian Cruise Ends Romance.
The first marital troubles occurred
after Mrs WEIGH Chen Mrs. Bakery
returned from a cruise to the West
Indies in 1908. They had been mar
ried five years then and Mrs. Baker
went to the West Indies to recover
from nervous prostration. Her love
for her husband and child had waned
when she returned, Mr.. Baker de-
clares. Shortly after divorce proceed
ings were talked of, and 1t was agreed
in writing that in the event of a
divorce Martyr was to so to Mr..
Baker.
Mrs. Baker went abroad on three
trips, spending only ten days with
her family from February, 1905 to
February. 1910, and her interest in
domestic affairs so waned that she
suggested a Reno divorce in the lat
ter year, Mr.. Baker says. She made
it no secret that she wanted to marry
again, and wrote to her husband
under date of February 90:
Admitted She Wanted to Marry Again.
II think you did not understand in
regard to a divorce that l am ready
to cooperate with you on your own
terms. with possibly only one Varia-
! ton, Let me tell you frankly how
the matter stands-I wish to marry
again-a Mr.. Thomas Carey WEIGH,
of Buffalo. N Y, assistant executive
secretary of the Philippine Islands,
ne NdTldllOl IeldlSu 10 Sellis-
ment of money on her. She asked
that he settle on her a sum to yield
her an annual income of $1,000 This
you can look upon as the equivalent
for the giving up of my, child. not as
contributing to the support of another
mans wife!" she wrote him.
Mr. Baker answered he would al
low her $3.50 month for eight
months. and then $125 a month while
she was unmarried. In the event she
did marry he would settle on her
lump sum of $1,000.
1t was this last clause that brought
to Mr.. Baker the first knowledge of
his wife's second marriage. Four
DAYS after the decree was granted
he received a draft for the $1,000.
with a copy of the wedding certificate
attached.
Mrs. Baker. from Manila, had writ
ten to Mr.. woodbridge:
Like Taking My Own Life"
Il shall feel at first as If the whole
affair is ended. Like taking my own
life Robbed of Martyr as l as, /
have nothing that makes life worth
living. My faith in man will be shat
tered. and being without means no
one will, at my age, wish to marry
me, that is, no one / could consider"
On August 3, 1911, she wrote to Mr..
Woodbridge that she had heard from
Mr.. Welch's brother that the first
Mrs. WEIGH objeSted to Welch's re-
marriage and had found some legal
way to prevent it. She said: e'She
threatens to sue him should he per
sist in his ideas, naming me as CO.
respondent! The brother counsels
me to retire quietly, as he says 40
one can say il the affair could ever
DO Strengthened out"
Some of Mrs. Bakers letters, t.
Martyr were returned to her I'M
opened by the boys father; over
others he acted as a censor. He
branded such passages as referred
to her new marriage and the telling
tc the child that Mr., WEIGH had.
strewn the path of her house with
roses, which was symbolic of her
new life. as unfit for the eyes of her
son in his tender years.
Neither Mr.. Baker nor the boy was
in court yesterday. Mrs. Welch was,
however. and took down on paper
notes OF the proceedings.
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