The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-13
SAYS HUSBAND HAD
FOUR OTHER NURSES
DR.. William Willard ArmstrOng
Kept "Open House." His
Wife Asserts.

Remarkable charges against DR. will |
lam willard Armstrong of 255 West
Thirty ninth street, who has been sued
for $50. 900 damages for breach OF promise
by Miss Henrietta Hossfeld. a former
showgrl, are made by Mrs Augusta
Goodwin Armstrong in affldavlts sub
mitted to Supreme Court Justice Weeks
in an application for allmony pending her
suit for divorce. Mrs Armstrong asked
800 week alimony. but the court al
lowed only $40 n week on the physicians
statement that his income is not as large
as his wife believed
Mrs. Armstrong. who brought her suit
through Mrs. Inez Milholand Boissevain,
who IL counsel in the breach of promise
suit also. said that she was married to
Dr. Armstrong July 10. 1918. after being
engaged to him three months. She said
he told her she would have TO live only
temporarily in the house he owns In West
Thirty ninth street because he was build
ing beautiful residence" In Jersey City
for her. to which she would go to live
soon.
II was forced TO be content with his
promise" said Mrs. Armstrong. "and took
up life with the idea OF making the best
OF things I had been n trained nurse
and | at once assumed the duties of office
nurse for my husband. He kept open
house as he pleased to call II. for his
women friends and while | lived there
between two and four women slept and
ate In the house all of the time. He
called these women nurses. but l learned
from them that they were not graduate
nurses and they had had no professional
training
Mrs. Armstrong said that she was
obliged to sleep in her husbands Office.
while two or three other women occupied
the only bedroom in the apartment She
said she reproached him. and his reply
was 80 rough and his treatment so brutal
that I determined to leave him. ! tried
to make success OF my married life but
| couldn't tolerate his conduct"
Mrs. Armstrong said that she left her
husband six weeks after her marriage and
found employment In the Hudson County
Sanitarlum. In New Jersey, where she Is
still engaged.
Last February learned that my hus-
band had enticed young girl to the
house under promise OF marriage" said
Mrs. Armstrong.
II learned that her name was Henrietta
Hossfeld and i teephoned her one day
at the house and warned her TO be care
| full OF DR.. Armstrong. She thanked me
and I heard no more from her until
she called on me in the HOSPITAL in May.
She told me she had lived with my hus-
band four days before she discovered he
was married. She then remained upon
his promise to get divorce from me to
marry her. I wanted to help her and
decided to divorce the defendant"
Mrs. Armstrong said that the best OF
| food and champagne was always served
| at her husbands table and she believes
| that his income was between $500 and
| xkOn Che said ha
| at least sl2 for dinner when he dined out
and carried at least s400 In bills in his
| pocket
| Miss Hossfeld said that DR. Armstrong
| promised to take her on a trip TO Europe
and give her a $4,000 diamond ring like
| one he was wearing, She said he told
her he once lost $1,000 in Wall Street
and on another occasion made $4,000.
DIR. Armstrong denied all his wifes state
| ments and said she had been induced to
sue him by Miss Hossfeld in order to
aid the latter in her breach OF promise
| suit.