The evening world., 1913-12-09
SAYS GUNMEN GOT
WIFE TO DRINKING;
GAVE THEM JEWELS
Importer Admits He Drank
Too Much Also, hut Wants
Separation.
SHE CHARGES CRUELTY.
Says Husband Reminded Her
When Angry of Her Early
lndiscretion.

gang OF Nv yorks sinmen are
! blamed In an annulment suit fiied IN
the supreme Court to-day for upsettinG
the home Of Frank Hugh. President of
an importing house a, No. IS Front
| street. who 10 trying to cot aside his
marrisse TO Alfredo Carbalio Hugh. q
OF the prominent Penn family Of New
! Jersey.
Hugh SAYS that his wifs and he we're
happy until she met = gang of gunner
who conGregated at Ono Hundred and
Fifty-hfth street and Eighth avenue.
From that time on. he alleges. she bs.
gan 70 drink heavily ana permitted the
eangstsrs TO take jsweiry which ne had
given her.
Mra Hush. In reply. says that sns
nsver hesrd Of New York sunrnsn unit,
She read accounts OF the BECKER trial.
Then In . pathetic passage ~ an am.
davit she has nled she confeesss 20
having posed for several ysars a. the
wife OF Victor ca ba,io Of CNmtsn. n.
j., to protect her sons name. The son
~
school at Highland Falls, and his mother
believes he hasn't the slightest suapi.
c'on that hia parrntaSs In being auss.
TONED In court. A. q matter OF fact.
the son has aNied himself with his step
father to the extent OF having writtsn
a pathetic letter TO his mother asking
hE not to drink. This letter foliows:
Thar Mother: Homo you received my
letter all rtxht. Papa VIA up hsrs to see
ma Wednesday Iio told me ne had IN
mtr,d not 20 20 homo any more because
yon have bssn drinking again. Now I
thought you took tho pledge. but II
dossn't seem to DO you any good at all.
II you don't take the piedge before
Christmss don't want to come home.
for had enough the last time. Because
when I coms homs want to have sone
peace. ] don't blame papa sor what ne
does. II he breaks vp or not. for II you
are not willing TO stop drinking he has
right to do anything hs wants. Love
AMI kisses. EMILIO"
WIPE sANs she TOLD Huoh OF
EARLY LIFE.
when I was asked by. Mr.. Hugh TO
marry him." Mrs Hugh relates. II told
him that ] intended to marry Victor
Carballo. but my family was opposed to
Spaniards and a. Carba iio was . Span
lard. ! could not disobey their wishes
When I was fifteen years old met Car
ballo. and committed an indisoret!on.
and TO protect the name OF my child.
lSsid Carbailo and I were married, but
here never wss u marriage. I sent the
boy on 20 Highland Falls Academy, and
my mother, who was then rich. helped
mo to educate him.
Il married Mr. Hugh. and he knew
all the time OF the mistake I had made
In my girlhood. and when hA became
cruel TO me and I said ] would lsaye
him hs threatened to bare my youthful
error. knowing that I would suffer any
torment rather Nm have my son know
the truth about his pArentaGe.
soon after our marriage found that
my husbands fsvorits diversion was to
20 asleep with razor under his Dill.
low with which he threatened he would
cut OF my hail.
lie told my folks when he married m.
thst no was Nidower. As matter OF
fact he war still married to his nra,
wifi although he said he had nent hs,
20 an asyium and that she had died In
tho institution, M a matter Of fact he
got divorce secretly from hi, f,rrt
wife four years after 10 ma rri<$i ne, and
the first Mrs, iiugh In now living ON
Ea~ E'ghty-fourth street between
Third and Lexington svenuee. win her
are her two grown-up children. = son
aged twenty-sx, and a daughter, age.l