The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-16
FORCED DOOR OPENS
WAY TO DIVORCE SUIT
Mrs. Mildred s. Blanchard
Starts Action Against |. s.
Rubber Official.
HAD SUED ONCE BEFORE

divorce suit flcd in the Supreme
Court yesterday against Harry q.
blanchard. a sio.0Oo a year official OF
the United states Rubber Company. by
Mrs Mildred s. Blanchard, daughter of
Carlton Siger. wealthy jewelry mer-
chant of Cleveland. Ohio brought to light
q suppressed suit for separation filed by
Ms Blanchard last March
In an affidavit made by Mrs. Blanchard
In connection with an application for
alimony in the separation suit she al
legged that her husband had asked her to
divorce him and had promised to furnish
the evidence on which TO base her suit.
The alimony application was with
drawn two days after 1t was made and
the suit was subsequently discontinued,
but the facts in the petition became
known through an effort by Mrs.
Blancnard's attorney, Marshall 5. Barney.
20 collect q $500 counsel fee from
Blanchard after his wife had decided
not to sue him.
f, was learned yesterday that Mrs.
Bhnchard's divorce suit Is the result OF
evidence obtained on a sudden trip by
Mrs Blanchard and her mother to this
eity from Cleveland, where she has been
living They Joined party of detectives
last saturday night and went from the
Hotel Astor to "A house where. II is
ell,ged they forced the door and founl
Blanchard ana a woman named in the
divorce papers as Mrs. NJ Walker" 1t
T. charged that the couple have been
living In the house since last October.
I'm Mrs B,anchards alimony petition.
which was submitted to Supreme Court
Justice Davis on Mr.. Barney's application
TO- his fee, Mrs. Blanchard said that In
February 1913. she received an anony-
rious letter while visiting in Cleveland
telling her she would better investigate
her husband She employed the Burns
aGencN to look up her husband, who was
then living az the Hotel Manhattan, and
the tcctives reported that Blanchard
had been with the same woman for two
weeks. Mrs Blanchard came back to NV
York at once. and her husband insisted
that he had not been guilty of improper
conduct.
Mrs Blanchard said her husband then
began to abuse her IN a systematic man
ner and struck her two ar three times
a week on the slightest prcteNt tie re-
pea:,dly knocked her down in the presence
81 the servants. she said. and blackeued
both her eyes. He suggested many times
that she get a divorce on evidence he
w,uld furnish she said. and once when
a hill for gowns she had bought came in
he became 50 angry that he pulled out
her diamond earrings and stamped on
them
The papers shows that two days after the
alinorv application IN which Mrs. Bianch-
ard asked 500 week had been filed
she wrote her attorney that she had de-
cided not 10 pursue the matter any
further and notified him that she had
terminated whatever authority she had
gwen him
Justi,, n,vis rot only refused to compel
Blanchard TO pay the counsel fee. but
struck cut as scandal, us an affidavit
made by Mr Barney concerning alleged
statements by Mrs. Blanchard about her
husband and directed Barney to pay $40
for making the affidavit. A month later
Justice Davis signed an order discontinue
ing the separation suit.