Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-25
CUYLER WAS
FOUND FOR
WIFE BY
WOMAN
Farmers Spouse Located Geor-
gia's Famous CosmOpoIite Az
ter SIeuths Failed.

WAYSIDE, GA, June 25.-It devel-
oped to-day that a woman, indigen-
GUS 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 dellitante, 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 writer's. She is the wife of
a Jones County farmer and has prob
ably never sen a sleuth, but she has
a 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
gathering the information by going to
Cuylers 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 a trip to the Orient.
Perhaps Mrs. Cbiles reasoned that
if a cosmopolite and a dellitante
wanted to hide, obviously the best
place for him to secret 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-
trail hall and he was turning his toes
out to greet the glow of the sun, as is
customary for Jones County farmers
to do.
Couple Discussed Divorce.
In a 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 Calexico,
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, I know that he left there n
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 vas sent to Calexieo,
but according to the officers Cuyler
promptly disappeared 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 ne was
reported variousIy in Europe and the
Orient.
Leading Life Of Eeeiuse.
About two weeks ago, according