Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-10
Marries and Repents Eight
Days AfterWard-SayS
He Was Deceived -.

Philip ReXford Waugnop, q prom.
inent Seattle physician, and for sew.
eral years a resident of Honolulu and
other parts of the territory N the in
terest of the leper settlement work,
has become involved in matrimonial
tangle in the Washington city which
bids fair to prove perplex:ng riddle
10 both the courts and the persons in
terested. ...s .:-..: @......
According 10 the Seattle Post.Intel-
ligencer Doctor Waughop was married
to his former nurse, Miss Nellie Kloss,
on February 4, 1913, and e was no.
until February IL that lie recovered
his mental balance and realized that
he was really married. AS soon as
he learned that he had become in
weighed into the bonds OF matrimony
without his knowledge, he immediate
iy brought suit for divorce against
Mrs. Waughop. The doctor charges
that he was drugged and mentally in
capacitated at the time or tae cere-
mony and asked that the marriage be
annulled. He discovered that he was
a married man eight days after the
wedding and says that he Immediately
left his bride, from whom ne is now
living apart. Mrs. Waughop is super
jntendent of the Queen City sanitar
Jun, where Doctor Waughop was a
patient for several weeks.
Mrs. Waughop, when interviewed
concerning the ENHANCEMENT, alleged
that the doctor had been abducted and
forced into signing the divorce COM
plant, since which time she processes
10 believe that he has been 1orcibly
detained Her story of the blissful
cerenity of the ten-day honeymoon
spent at the sanitarium was corrobor-
ated by one of the nurses employed in
the institution. who said tina; the idea
of Doctor Waughop applying for d.
vorce of his own free will was ridicu-
lous. "The doctor was Simply crazy
about Nellie" she said. "He couldn't
hear to have her out OF his sight for a
moment He'd follow her rom one
room to another rather than be alone
until she returned to him. They just
called each other pet names and made
love all the time"
The story that she tricked the doc
tor into marrying her is emphatically
branded as lie by Mrs. Waughop. II
didn't want to be married so sudden
ly," she said, during the hearing OF
the case, but he insisted, so that i
finally yielded to please HIM. It's al
the fault of interfering relatives and
friends"
According to the story told on the
stand by Mrs. Waughop, the relatives
of the doctor had not treated her with
proper cordially when she and the
doctor visited the latter's home, and
SO they stayed at the sanitarium. At
length, Mrs. Waughpp said, she told
her husband that he must choose be-
tween his relatives and the wife they
objected to, whereupon the doctor
called them up and demanded that
they treat her with respect or that he
would have nothing more to do with
them. The relatives promised to do
this, she went on to say, and on the
strength of the promise she and the
doctor called on the relatives. While
they were still at the house, she al
leges that the Doctors attorney called
him to the telephone and asked him
to go downtown at once to attend
some important business matter The
doctor left the house to keep the APP
pointment, assuring his wife that he
would return Immediately.
He was either forced to sign that
complaint or else he was drugged,"
she said. He was very nervous and
easily influenced and he may have
signed it without knowing just what
it was"
Waughop and Miss Kloss present
ed themselves at the counter of the
marriage license clerk on February
and asked for license. Friends of
Waughop protested against the issu-
ance of the license on the ground that
the doctor was full of drugs and not
In a mental condition to take such a
momentous step. On this representa-
ton license was refused.
Later the couple talked about 60
ing to Tacoma for license, but this
was evidently subterfuge, for at 10
o'clock the same night Audit Clerk
w. w, Castle was aroused from his
slumbers, and, unaware that license
had been refused, went to the court
house and issued one. The couple
were married about midnight by Rev.
4. E. Bergman, of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, at Twenty-third avenue
and East Madison street. ='" j..
lncapacitated, Says Doctor. -. T.
The complaint filed in divorce pro-
ceedings states that DR.. Waughop was
mentally incapacitated by drugs ad-
ministered to him while suffering
from worry and stress of mind, caus-
inc him RI loco hic ron cODinp nowors
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