The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-04-16
MUST PAY SPOUSE !
$4,000 4 YEAR OR
+ DODGE BROADWAY
Dr.. Canto, Exile in Mexico,
Longs for White Lights, But
He'll Have TO Pay Alimony.
OWNS BIG PLANTATION.
Wife Says He's Worth Two
Million Mexican Dollars,
and Deserted Her.
OWNS BIG PLANTATION.

The cable operator ~ Merida. Yucca
I'm, the southernmost city Of troubled
will hand a cablegram to a
bAre-legged Indian boy tonight, and
the boy, expectaGt Of q peso tip. will
run At top speed to the great hacienda
Of DR.. Don ididoro Canto. graduate of
the College OF Physicians and Surgeons
hundred thousand acres OF YucutanI
and master of ten thous-
and poems. Dr. Don Isidoro. wien he
tears open the cablcgran. will learn |
that Justice GicSerlch, In the Supreme |
Court in New York. 1000 and more |
miles away. granted his wife. Mrs.
Dvangelne Cnnto, a divorce to-day. |
forbade the doctor TO rcmarry and ora
dsred him ito pay his asgrieved bride
$4,000 in good American money or
$4,000 II rsckoned in the coin OF the
southern republic.
OF course Mrs. CAnto cannot col
lsct her alimony as long as DIR. Don
Isidoro remains in YucutAn. But since
,inheratirg the millions OF his father.
Gen. Theodoso Canto. the 'Conaueror
Of Yucutan'' and Lion Of a Hundred
Revolutions" tle doctor has evinced
. desire in letters to his friends here
to revisit the big northern metropolis
70 spend gaily a few thousand of the
dollars from his plantations.
DOCTOR WAS AN ARDENT WoER,
SHE SAYS.
When Mrs. Canto. a trim little Pa
risian woman, dressed richly IN the
latest mode from the Rue de la Paix.
and glitterinx with costly jewelry, en-.
tered Justice Geiger.ch's Divorce Court
to-day the veterans Of the court house
bowed 10 her as to an old friend. They
recognized her as the sister OF beau.'-
full Juliet Hero. whose suit for breach
Of promise against Zelaya, the cousin
Of the former Dictator of Nicaragua,
was the reigning sensation three years
ago.
Mrs. Canto told Justice Gegerich she
Is living all alone with mamma" At
No. 1861 Boston road. the Bronx.
Il met Isidoro whom he was study
Ing at the College Of Physicians and
Surgeons, and living on the generous
allowance sent him by lbs father. Gen.
Theodoso Canto." she Sid. HE was
such an ardent wooer. even more ardent
than those in my own dear Paris, that
! was quite swept Off my feet. AMI
when he proposed marriage my life
was one dream Of bliss.
The day after he received his doc.
tors degree. May 2 1876. We were mar
Ydsd In the Waldorf-Astoria. Isidoro's
best man was Senior Romero, the Mex.
lcan Consul-General at this city. When
q baby was born 10 Us I thought my
ssh the happieet woman In the world.
But-ah!-I can tell no more: u y too
sd"
Mrs Canto was followed on the stand
b. George Schliecher. q manufacturer
Of pianos. with an once at No. 81 Wsst
fourteenth street.
TELLS OF LETTER GIRL WHoTs
TO Or. cANTo.
sDr. Canto used TO b my best friend
the manufactures declared. I'VE wer'
lin Damon and Pythias during his sta,
here In New York. In October. 1907
he came to my once much perturbed
He showed mo . letter from q cir
named Dorothy Tell. who lived in Ste
tisth street. In which she told him sh'
, was having trouble and asked him 4
assist her financially. He confessed 4
mo b had bssn tsry friendly with he
ard asked me for the loan Of $500. .
MA allowance had not arrived from
MEXICO, made the loan. After hi
SAthsr died and he went to MeNco
wrote to him. urging him to support hi
wife ana baby"
Justice 0iegsrioh glanced at the lei
~ written By Miss Tell. and the
asdEsd Nrs. Oanto what alimorny Nh
Aasared.
Il want eio.eoo . year." she repiis<
~ husband - worth 100000 an
!. . owns vast plantations"
; sIs this 100000 In American q
!: De11oan moDsVr' inquired the Cour
Apuu hnow that makes . difference"
s7lox1oAn MONEY" Mrs. Canto 81
1891 ,,.,. 49,. ,,.,,.. madam.
~ TIE Court and Mrs. Canto hurris
: q oaAls once to apprise her dslis
.0nent husband.