Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-03
TOOK WIFE
OF ANOTHER MAN TO
JAPAN, LAWYER SAYS
Declares in Suit That
Charges Were Made
Against j. D. Swoyer, of
This City, and Demands
$4,000 Fee.

The charge that Joseph d. swoyer'
wool merchant OF this city. eloped with
the wife OF Thomas NJ. Carroll. proprietor
of the Hotel Hermitage of New York
city. has been made by James NJ Hayes,
former attorney for Swoyer Hayes Is
suing swoyer for $1,000 legal fees In Court
OF Common Pleas OF Atlantic County. N.
j. His charges are made in connection
with the suit.
Hayes asserts that Carroll sued swoyer
for alienation OF his wifo's affections. As
a result Of Hayes efforts as attorney for
swoyer the latter did not have to pay
Carroll a cent, according to Hayes. The
latter says he managed to keep the case
out Of court Mr.. and Mrs. swoyer live
at iO7 South Berkeley square, Chelsea.
Mr.. Hayes. in his effort to reveal what
he says he managed formerly to dlsprove
with much difficulty, goes so far as TO
produce love letters said to have been
written by Mr.. Swoyer TO Mrs. Carroll.
Carroll. he says, charged that Swoyer
and Mrs. Carroll left San Francisco on
January 10. 1918. embarlSing on the steam
ship Manchuria for the Orient, and regis
tering as man and wife. After a trip to
japan they are said to have gone to Aus
tralia and "the defendant later returned
to America. leaving Mrs Carroll some
where in Asia or Europe, where she still
is."
Clandestine meetings with Carrolls
wife had occurred on the yacht Quaker,
owned by Swoyer. at Atlantic City, at
Paterson and other places, Carroll is said
to have charged, and this letter is pro-
duced as having come from Swoyer 10
Mrs Carroll
MY own precious darling-I never
loved nor craved your eternal compan-
lonshlp so in all my life before and I
now live only In the beautiful thought
that on January J. or thereabouts, we
will leave here. to be together In the
most perfect love and harmony until
God separates us For let me say right
here, / love you with such a strong and
perfect love that no one living can ever
take you from me.
II have lived few years, and now that
l have met my love In all the crowd and
know and feel that l can never live with
out her, mean that no one shall take her
from me. l love you, my darling, with
love that enrlches, that ennobles. that
makes life worth living, and makes a man
think of other things in life. fully real
ize the depths of your love and 1t is that
that keeps me up that makes mo feel that
life Is worth while, after all.
believe me, my darling, I miss you
more than ever. l want you need you,
you are as necessary to me as the air
breathe. You are my own-my very own
and no one shall ever take you from
me-"
Another letter says:
81 did not sleep last night. All night
long your spirit seemed to hover over
me- and 1 could see your beautiful face
so clear and yet so cloudy in sorrow.
that 1 was almost frantic, and, believe
me, 1t was n struggle to keep myself
from calling you"
These and other letters are signed
"Devotedly. Joey"
Hayes said he set to work to settle the
case and that after conferences with
Carroll's lawyer managed TO do so. The
marriage of Carroll and his wife was an
nulled by the New York Supreme Court
in July 1918, on the ground that at the
time of their marriage in 1908 Mrs. Carroll
had another husband living. She had
thought she had obtained a divorce from
her first husband but 1t appeared that
her marriage to Carroll tool place before
the final decree was signed She is %
years old,
Before her first marriage she was Miss
Elizabeth Poultney Of Hudson. Shs
figured prominently in the social affairs
of the Chelsea Yacht Club, of which
Swoyer was commodore.
Hayes says he agreed TO accept $1,000
for his services as Swoyer's lawyer and
that when this was refused, sued for the
5000 he had originally asked.