New Britain herald., 1914-04-01
S|fCEL'S DEALINGS
 ASSA|LED. BY WIFE
Warned Hm That M Faced Jail
 for Use Of DcpositoTS' Money.

New York, April Mrs. Henry of the failed siegel enterprises. for a divorce, issued a statement yesterday attacking her husbands business deal ings. Mrs. siegel signed the state- ment in the office of her lawyers, Redwood & Haldame. 60 Broadway. It is as follows:
 There have been so many misstate. ments in the public press recently, not
 only concerning my divorce action,
 but concerning my prior status, that
 feel called upon to make the fol- lowing corrective statement:
 I came to New York to visit my first husbands cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
 George Cotton Chase, wholesale tea
 importers of Front street, who were we'll known both socially and finan- cially. and at whose luxurious home on West Eighty-fifth street MT. Siegel and I were married on April "A, 1898. I was first introduced to MT. Siegel by friends at dinner party. He never offered, nor did I accept, em- ployment in his stores. My married life with Mr. Siegel was full of trials and tribulations. Suffice it to say 1 that I endeavored in every way to guard and protect him from his own weaknesses and his lack of considera- l ton for the feelings and rights of l others.
 Had Warned Him.
 1 Several years ago I learned inciden- l tally of the dealings of Henry Siegel 1 with the moneys of depositors in his
 bank, and I immediately demonstrated
 and warned him, as I thought it was l my duty to do, that he was facing 1 jail" He ragged like a madman and 1 treated me shamefully-worse if pos
 s.ble, than ever. This continued for
 several weeks, when he finally changed his attitude toward me, and at a ] dinner party at which Mir. Frank Vogel was present he made light of
 my predictions and endeavored to con- vince me that I had been misled and
 misinformed, and that I was unjustly
 suspecting him, whereas he was noble
 and honest citizen, seeking only the l welfare and advantage of those with
 whom he was connected.
 ] Thereafter MT. Siegel continued
 again to mistreat me in a variety of
 ways, which it is not necessary now to divulge, and continually suggested
 that We should be separated, and from
 what I have learned in the last six weeks, now believe that he was ac :.
 tuated throughout with the evident in-
 tention of having me leave the ccun- try, so that I would not divulge in-
 formation of his illegal operations or
 reproach him further with my sus- gestions concerning the same. Tn
 any event, finally left for Paris upon
 his express promise and agreement to prov1de Tor me. This promise was
 kept for time and then discontinu- ued, and upon the fact of the sit uation it looks as though I was in
 the same position as any other cred I itor.
 ] Statement Is False.
 The statement made by MT. Siegel
 and others in the public press that he had furnished me with vast moneys
 and that I wasted his funds and led him into extravagances. both here and
 abroad, is all absolutely without foun- 1 dation. I am practically without any ! money or property whatsoever, and l have been compelled to institute this 1 divorce action in order to protect my l rights and to place the matter before 1 the courts. so that my rights as wife may be determined and enforced My l books will show and I have only one 1 set, that in no year, even when MT. 1 Siegel was accredited with having an ! income exceeding several hundred 1 thousand dollars year, did he give me over SPA, 900 a year with which to
 maintain the expenses of his elaborete te l establishments.
 l From what have now learned from 1 the information in my possession, it is very evident that MT Siegel has 1 spent large sums of money upon va rious women of his acquaintance, and 1 think an investigation of his per-