The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-07

nothing for the victim to do but pay.
No appeal on the ground Of mercy or justice
or eXpediency will be entertained for mo-
ment. The crimeless victim of Ludlow com
mitment is the only prisoner in the State who
cannot reach the slightest clemency. His fam
lily starving-sudden death with all its horror
great physical coap se or pain-all are against
that one stone wall pay" and if you haven't
got the money and cannot get 1t. suffer"
Let us consider Ludlow from another angle.
Thousands of go through the New
York divorce mill every year. Thousands of
husbands ordered to pay thousands Of
wives less alimony
And in Ludlow there is a little band of six
who are suffering the mighty grip of eternal
justice on their throats for not paying that
alimony.
Does not this suggest some ground for spec.
ulative thought?
What shall be said of that little band of six
wives who have forced their husbands into
Ludlow?
Are they heroic figures that stand in the
forefront of the battle for the purity of the
home and the sanctity of the marriage tie?
Let me give just little data
AS ! write there is young man in Lud
low whose wife had record on the police
botter before he was invegled into marrying
manded his freedom and his wife sued him
for separation and the court assigned her a
weekly aimony. He fed from her as from a
plague and spent FIVE years in Chicago, where
gathering proofs and complying carefully with
all the techncalities the law demands, he sued
and a divorce from her. He returned to
New York to find that the New York courts
would not recognize the Chicago decree, and
as an opportunity to force the collection Of
quite of money from this young man,
whose father was fairly we'll to do. was thus
placed by the courts in the nand of this I'M
principled woman. she proceeded against him
and he hailed to Ludlow.
He has abundant evidence on which to get
a divorce from her in New York. and is now
trying to get his case tried that he may be
divorced second time, but in the interim he
is doing his six months in Ludlow.
There is another young man, a painter by
trade, whose wife secured decree of separa-
ton with alimony. He paid this alimony until
he fell from scaffold and was laid up in a
hospital for some weeks when he fell behind
in his payments. it was about this time that
he learned that his wife living very COM
fortaby under the protection of another man.
When he out OF the hospital he enlisted
the services of two OF his friends and, gaining
an entrance to his wifes apartment, verified
all that he had heard. He has with him now
the duly attested afjdavits OF his two COM
panions on that raid His wife forced him
into Ludlow and he is doing three months
and without dollar to employ counsel to
bring the counter suit for absolute divorce
that the conditions warrant
Another man points to jagged ccatrice of
gunshot wound that his wife inflicted He
got 1t in the neck. He enters Ludlow to nudge
himself of the lifelong obligation to pay her
alimony, and has just completed his three
months purgation
There is yet another case, Of considerable
newspaper notoriety, that went through Lud-
low. A man Of considerable wealth found him
self subjected to what seemed to be a family
conspiracy to- force money from niln and he
deliberately submitted to three months i'm
prisonment rather than trust To the sentiment
tally sympathetic Justice of the courts 20 pro-