Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-05

sick and wrote telling him so. He
replied on May 81, 1912, that he was
cabling me passage money.
Dispossessed from Hotel.
'That is the last I heard from him.
No letter arrived for the next few
weeks, so I cabled. Still there was
no reply My money gave out, the
hotel manager, who had been very
forbearing, told me I must give up
my room and kept my baggage be-
cause my bill was not paid.
IT stepped into the street with just
few shillings in my pocket and
with nothing but the clothes wore.
/ wandered around Liverpool home-
less and friendless for several days
and nights, and finally asked store
keeper with whom I had a slight ac-
quaintance, Mrs. Heaton, If she would
lodge me for a short time until my
remittance arrived She did so, but l
was penniless by then and, unwilling
to acquaint her with my predicament,
the streets starving.
Mrs. Heaton finally discovered this
and insisted on feeding me. She also
BOl iIlc a SITUATION dS d iduy Helps
where I labored at manual work for
seventeen hours a day for three
months.
'All this time I was writing to
my husband by every mail asking
What is wrong?' Mrs. Heaton also
wrote to him, demonstrating.
Served with Divorce Papers.
Then suddenly last August some-
one served me with divorce papers.
The shock made me i'll. 1t seems that
my husband had gone to Chicago and
filed suit on the grounds of deser-
ton, while 1 had been suffering aw-
full privations here, unable to get
money or even a letter from him or
to return to America. Nervous pros
tration followed, and for nine weeks
lay at deaths door, a serious opera
ton having to be performed.
When I recovered somewhat, Mrs.
Heaton insisted that I return to her
house, where I have been since.
Plainly, Mr.. Bell thought the suit
would not be defended. l swore It
would be. s5i ~ uris,
went to the American consul at
Liverpool, but was merely shown the
door. They told me If they had to
assist eevry American in distress
they would have a fine time.
I then found a kind lawyer In
Liverpool who came to my aid. He
instructed Ferguson & Goodnow,
lawyers, of State street. Chicago. to
defend my case.
Bell Drops Suit.
Immediately the defense was filed
l am Informed that Bell dropped the
case. Then. through my lawyers
knowing me to be penniless, he Of
fered me $3.50 to allow the case to 20
through undefended. I refused and
asked Ferguson & Goodnow TO sue
Mr. Bell for maintenance. They re-
pied that Mr.. Bell had left Chicago
and they were unable to proceed. I
decided to let matters drop, not wish
Ing to place myself where I was not
wanted. I heard nothing more until
the news of Mr.. Bells marriage to
Adele Richie was cabled."
swore She Was Destitute.
Records in the Chicago courts show
that suit for divorce was started there
in the Superior Court on June'4, 1912,
by Charles M. Bell. the middle initial
In the suit being M. instead of N. In
his affidavit Mr.. Bell stated that he
married Louise McNaughton on June
rs, 1905, and that he had lived with
his wife until December, 1909, when
she deserted him and refused to re.
turn.
In the affidavit it was sworn that
Mrs. Bell was then in Liverpool Eng,
land, and in the papers in the case
is an affidavit made by her before
the American consul in Liverpool
stating that she was totally destitute
and, that while she had good grounds
on which to contest the suit she was
without funds to get to America to
do so. She swore that she had re-
ceived no money from Bell after June
10, 1912, although before that time he
had sent her from s25 to $50 week.
The demurrer reached Chicago on
September 20, 1912. On October %. last.
the suit was dismissed on the applica.
ton Of the complainant, Bell.
No Record of Marriage.
The Rev. DR.. w. A. swan. of st.
Johns, the only Episcopal church at
Fort Hamilton, said last night that
there was no record. there of the mar
rage of Louise McNaughton ana
Charles Nelson Bell. He stated that
there was no record of any marriage
having been performed in the church
that year and said that this was prob
ably due to the fact that the pulpit
Of the church was being "supplied'
by several pastors that year and that
each pastor kept possession of his
own records.