The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-04-05

TO help Mr.. Tearle and OF
like him. Realizing that
might spend all his life in jail
cause the law permits
him TO be rearrested
again and again for
non-payment of ali.
mony, while in jail we
planned his relief. How
was it done? 1t was I
very simple. Each OF T
the five men contrib III
uted $500. Out Of the ~
$4,000 thus collected III
they paid the paltry ~ !
$500, which represented I I
Mr.. Tearle's failure to III 1
pay his wife stipend f3
OF s25 week for four ~
months ~
To the Ludlow Street 4
Bastile for Husbands, E .}.
where Mr. Tearle was Etl
not langulshing his ty
speciality is not Ian I'll
gushing, but champing ssil
his bit and saying rude t@ lt#
and profane things ia
about the laws OF New Ia II
Hork-went Mr.. Towns fii T.
on his errand Of mercy. IA \
Come. my boy" said VA \
the lawyer. Come VA
with me. You are free" EA
Picturesque language, ~
freely punctuated, bit S
ter, staccato speech I
burst from the hand
some prisoner. With
arm on high and wav-
ing fist he bade Mr..
Towns desist. lie adj
vised the attorney to
choose less dangerous
objects for his jokes.
My boy" began the lawyer wi
the actor stopped, you are free. r
newly organized Lloyds for Dome.
Derelicts has paid the alimony.
will sign this note promising to
pay the money in three months
SIX per cent and flee from tn
changing gates toyously as ever b
flew 10 yon mountain"
Back went Mr.. Tearle to \
Tcarle the second formerly
charming Roberta Mcngcs, known
the Pearl OF Shccpshead Bay
cause and reward OF his troubles W
the first.
The promoters then went into
ccuiivc session, drew up articles
incorporation, and these have II
been passed upon and been o. !,
by the Department ut Albany.
"Rut We have another and hig
purpose than alimony immunizat
IN founding this organization" s.
Mr. Towns. "A part of the surp
VIII be applied TO the cstab)iShm
Of universal divorce laws lcgislat
ana 10 the abolition of imprisonm,
for debt.
divorce laws OF New York a
several other States are in m
chaotic condition. BY decision l.
dcred last week by Justice Sam
". Greenhaum, n man who has II,
married Tor twenty years 10 his :
ond wife may illegltlmatiac IN
children and cas-; her off on the y
that his second marriage was n,
II is unfair that the marriage O.
iracled in Connection, should h,
no standing iii this state and II
the wife in that second marri;
should be without social or lee
standing in another State. 7
abuses accrniEs from lack of u
form divorce laws in this country
out TO heaven.
New York is branded with a +
Their Shamc-thc existence of impI
onmeni for debt. In but one OF!
state may man be- arrested
debt. And Delaware IS an arch
State. for it still has the whippi,
post
We are already at work in Aba
upon Il bill for the abolition of /
Ludlow Street jail shame. Ina
here a message from an offcial
Albany who says: There win h,
trouble mt MI to secure the repeal
the Ludlow Street Jail net for .
monY provided You act promptly
I'm sure ii will 60 through a, on,
W men the organization has done n
work in New York ii vii, fry 70
'cnd It's Misunderstanding agencies
OF her States. If the Ludlow Sir,
Jail and the cruelty il represents :;
abolished, half Of Loyd's object
existence will be gone Thar occo