The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-15
Wife of Former Specialist
in Nervous Disorders
Files Libel
HAD DETECTIVES
WATCH HUSBAND
Conduct Alleged to Be of Such Nature
that it Could Not Be Described in
Legal Papers Sanitarium Nurse
Among Women Named.

Among Women Named.
\ divorce petition has just been
filed in the superior court in Ports
mouth \. H., by Mrs. Florence J.
Cowles of Broozline, Mass, formerly
Of Brattleboro. against DR.. Edward :.
Cowles neuroloeist and psvehothe ,apv
specialist, who had an Office IN the
American building here previous t. -
ihS TO oitSnouth about thIeJ y,.srs
ago to open a private sanita11rm on
Middle street.
The libel was fled by County Solicit
or Ernest l.. Guptil, and Is returnable
lat the January session of the court 1t
charges Or. Cowlcs with statutory Of
Ienses, with conduct injurious to the
health of the petitioner, and with oth-
Ter conduct of sucn a nature that Is
could not be described in the report.
In her suit Mrs. CowleS names a
nurse, Miss Allie Arntz, employed at
the sanitarium, also women in Boston
and Portland. Ia addition to these
complaints she charges her husband
with using profanc and abusive Ian
"uagc She complains that he has com
PEELED her 10 live and associate with
mnatcs
Mr.. Guptill. counsel for Mrs
CoSies is authority for the statement
that the trial will develop sensational
Testimony. lie declined TO give ont ut
this time the names OF the other women
mentioned by Mrs. CowlpS. 1t is known
| that Mrs, Cowles has had detectives
watching her husband Tor the last three
months.
With the fling of the libel Judge
Young issued an in junction restraining
| l}r. CoWles from interfering with the
personal liberty ot Mrs. Cowles Pend-
lug the hearing OF the case she j. given
the custody of the two children -
! May Haywood. aged >, and Harriet /.
| Virginia, aged 4.
| Mrs. Cowles l. - daughter OF II. L.
! Jaqnith Ct Boston lawyer. and She Is
| now living with her children ut her
| parents home in BrookIinc, Mass.
! As Florence ,Iaquith She married Dr.
| Cowles Oct. :. 1905. in frideeport.
Conn. The marriage bad Eecu planuctl
for the following FEBRUARY AND it's add
Naneclnrat Of d0tt and joforuajitv WAS
| Il surprise to the bride s triruds. She
| Is Wellesley graduate. who after her
graduation travelled widely >ud was
very popular.
nr. Cowlcs, born upwards oI 40 wear.
ago, either In Virginia of South Caro-.
lina-bis statements have differed on
the point-gra duatcd in Ia07 from the
| Medical School of Willian and Mary
university, Virginia
At the time of his marriage he wa,
living in Boston though Ic also main
tanned a New Work address-and. after
a year of graduate study in uervou.
diseases at the Hal ward Medical school
had become much interested in the En-
manuel movement with Dr. Worcester
He made psychotherapy his speciality
and sought association with prominent
neurolo9ists.
/ In December, 1905. came the famou,
affair at the Charlestown navy ward
and the court martial proceedings thai
followed in January and February
1910, did not add to his reputation il
any way.
Although admitted to practice medi
cine III Virginia, he was not registered
lin Massachusetts and had six time,
failed to pass the state examinations
The court martial had brought out mncl
Il testimony about him as a. neuroIogist
and in April, 1870 he pleaded guilty
to charge of praeticing without regis
tration and III the superior court wa!
fined SlOe
y month later he opened an Office il
| Brattleboro in the American building
to which came many persons from
laway, mostly women afflicted with ner
Nous disorders. lie was still living her,
when, IN October, 1911, he was arreste,
IN Boston for an assault on a street ca
conductor.
From Brattleboro he went to Ports
mouth to practice and to conduct hi
sanItarlum for nervous diseases.