Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
'1|VORCE NOTES
.WH|CHSHOCKED
KING REVEALED
NeIWlle's Wife Threatens Stage
Career Unless Money for Her
Support Is Forthcoming
DEFENDS EARL FITZWILLIAM
|Nobleman Makes Dignifed Reply
TO Bankers Accusation-Hot
Words Pass in Letters.
s,.o;,t Gable to The Sunday American

s.so,,t Gable to The Sunday American
rONpON. March 7.-Some particu-
,.-,v interesting letters passed he
.weer the parties most concerned
While Earl Fitzwilliam was being
ovhitewashed" by royal command,
and the separation of Alexander
frederick Leslie Melville and his
s lively and spirited wife, Beatrice, was
hang arranged. The divorce suit was
settled which Leslie Melville brought,
naming as correspondents the roman
tlc and wealthy Earl Fitzwilliam,
s,vorite Of King George, and Thomas
comyn Plat.
While the lawyers were discussing
n the question of separation e. a means
Of settling the suit it was suggested
that Leslie Melville pay $4,000 a yea:
10 his wife after they parted. She
wrote 10 him, holding I'D threatening
vision of her appearance II the pro-
Il fessional stage under her own name.
q can hardly believe this to be true.
4 You take and waste eight of the best
Years Of my life and then GU offer me
starvation pittance, My only
recourse would be to go on the
N stage which I fully intend doing, If
n Won carry this out and do not give me
n enough to live upon
Suggests Separation.
At another stage of the settlement
Il negotiations Mrs. Leslie Melville
a wrote to her husbands lawyers re-
garding the suggested deed Of sepa-
ration:
81 doubt whether being tied for
ever is worth it. Suppose I want 10
4 marry again? 1t seems to me staving
4 off a divorce is inevitable one day or
\ another. Being innocent Of these foul
charges. l am so absolutely confident
he can not possibly divorce me that l
4 would prefer everything being fought
& out to tn bitter end, and am quite
a prepared do So"
It will be remembered that one OF
the specific charges made by Leslie
I-elville against his wife was that she
4 misconducted herself with Earl Fitz-
h william at a Jenny n street restaurant
A on MAY IS, 1918. There was a fright
fully stormy scene between husband
and wife when she arrived home in n
taxicab at l a. m. on this occasion To
find her husband waiting for her on
the doorstep.
That afternoon she wrote to the
Earl:
IF, by any chance, you get an ex-
traordinary letter from Alex, please
do not take any notice of it. He knows
l went to supper with you last night
as If it mattered two straws wheth-
err l do or do not. l hope he will
not do anything so ill-advised or idi-
otto as to write and perhaps accuse
you Of unheard-of things without any
cause, but then l know l can trust
you to write him back the letter
he deserves and saying what you
think of him. But can not help say
ing that this Nonconformist religious
mania has really gone to his head.
Never shall / let my daughter marry
real good man."
FitzwiIiam Replies.
Earl Fitzwilliam replied on the
same day
Il must confess your letter fairly
astounds me. l had no idea your
husband had any possible objection
to your going out either to dinner
or supper. especially as my invitation
was extended you both, and hoped
you would both turn up | can only
add | am exceedingly sorry that my
harmless projected supper trois
should have caused any annoyance.
beileve me yours, very sincerely.
Signed) "FITZWILLIAM."
Following this Leslie Melville made
MS first definite charge against his
WIFE who replied:
For some time l have thought
some one has been trying to poison
your mind against me and trying to
make mischief between us by tell
ing you lies. If only you had not
gone on in that awful mad way, in
Sulting me in the street before the
taN driver / would at once have told
you where l had been and who with"
10 this Leslie Melville returned an
immediate reply, which called forth
the letter in which his wife accured
Iim Of seeking to blacllmail Earl
Lllzurehaus.
Miserable Cur"
You miserable little Monochrome
Isl eur, | now quite see through your
nithy, disgusting, Matchmaking threat.
Smarting under this, Melville wrote
No one has poisoned my mind. You
are responsible for the serious doubt
you have created in my mind. l most
ueeply resent your suggestion that |
an out for money or blackmail in this
matter"
Again she wrote, plainly in a pet;
Why Lord Fitzwilliam? Why not
Ue King? Why not bring him in?'