Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-28
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Knoxville Divorce Arrested as
She Attempts to Die to End
TangIe of Romance.

A pretty young woman, whose life
has been one unhappy love affair aft
er another-in one of them, she says,
her younger sister came between her
and her husband and caused sepa-
ration and DIVORCES held in the ma
irons ward at police headquarters TO
prevent he carrying out Of a threat to
commit suicide, which she declares IS
the only solution Of her troubles.
Her name is Mrs. Marguerite Wells.
Since three weeks ago, when she came
to Atlanta from Knoxville, Tenn, she
has been stopping at the Aragon Ho-
tel. She was arrested shortly after
midnight Saturday morning at Peach
tree and Llckie streets, when she be-
came hysterical, and, according to a
young man whose name the police
will not divulge, she tried to cut her
rkroat with knife. She struggled
with Policemen Dodd and Cochran
when they started TO take her 10
headquarters, and once there she
leaned against the station sergeant's
desk and wept coplously.
Nothing to Live For"
"Tve nothing to live for, she cried.
1.-THE man love does not love me!
Why should I live? I'll kill myself
and end all this misery and troubled"
Teh young man whom Mrs. Wells
SAYS she loves but who, she says,
does not love her was with her when
she was arrested, and 1t was he who
rallied the police and asked them to
come and get her. Neither the police
nor the woman will tell his name.
Il won't get him into trouble just
because / am having hard time,
the woman said, Il love him and I'm
going to shield him."
Mrs. Wells declared that the young
man is we'll known in Atlanta and
that his parents are wealthy.
Saturday, after sleeping eight or
ten hours Mrs. Wells was calmer,
and denied that she had tried to cut
her throat She admitted, however,
the police say. that she had threat
ened to commit suicide, and declared
that she didn't see how anyone could
blame her after all the troubles she
had had, falling in love uselessly.
Bames Actress Sister.
Mrs. Wells blames her younger
sister. who is an actress, for her trou-
IF it hadn't been for my sister"
she saws. Il would be happy now with
nv husband, instead Of being di-
vorced from him and in love with
man who does not love me.
Until about two years ago ] was
happy, with my husband, w. ]. Wells.
who is a prominent merchant in
Knoxville. Then my younger sister
came to visit me and my troubles be-
gan. She fell ins love with my hus-
hand and he began showing her at
tentions. protested, and there was
a quarrel which ended in separation
and then divorce.
."After l was divorced / had to
make my own living, and ! went to
work as q manicurist. / met doc
tor. one of the best-known physicians
in Knoxville, and before learned
that he was married ] fell in love
with him. Every day I loved him
more.
"Then l learned that he was mar
ireland the world turned black.
tried to keep away from him. i
couldn't do 1t, so l ran away from
him, though l loved him better than
life itself and came to Atlanta.
was running away from love, because
| didn't want to cause anybody any
misery, and l would if / had stayed IN
Knoxville.
shorty after | got here / met
young man l fell in love with him
He went about with me a good deal,
and in a week or two began to love
him even more than had loved my
husband or the doctor. When he
saw that had learned to love him,
he began treating me soolly II near
~ broke my heart. pleaded with
him. but ! could see that he regarded
me as nothing more than play
thing"