New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-16
TOO DULL TOLOVE
In new ROCHELLE
Wife Accused of Calling
Town Prosaic and Flee
ing to Reno.

New Rochelle. which has almost re-
covered from its designation as "Forty-
five minutes from Broadway is again
subjected 20 indignity. "Prosaie" is
row the Characterization given 10 the
Westchester city. which Augustus
Thomas. Clare Briggs and numerals
other literary, artistic and drsmatik
stars call home
So II was described By Mrs. Leonors
Breitweiser. according TO her husband,
Hubert F. Breitweiser. assistant treas
urer Of the New York Mortgage and
, Security Company. They and their two
children formerly lived there. And
perhaps. compared with the swashbuck-
ling, spurred and feathered army and
navy environments Of Germany, the
little place founded by the Huguenots
weser says that this view was ex-
pressed by his wife after she had spent
more than year abroad.
Now the Breitweisers are living apart
The wife and the children are said 10
he a. the home Of her father, Henry
Lesinsky, 1T 1s East Sirty-ninth Street
Hubert f.. jr., nine, end Barbara, seven,
arc the children.
Yesterday the father applied in the
Supreme Court for writ Of hsbeas
corpus directing his wife TO produce
the little cnes in court. Then he will
ask that he have their custody or at
least that ne be permitted 10 see them.
II was Mrs. Breitwsiser's trip 10 Eu-
rope that started all the trouble in the
family, her husband says. She went
there in March, 1912, and did not re
turn until May, 1918.
While abroad she travelled about
with her sister. who ~ described merely
/ as Colledani, and from the moment OF
/ hcr return" Breitweiser alleges, 1.-THE
only things that interested her were
( Europe and its male inhabitants.
Further complaint is made by the
| husband that his wife acquired an eK.
! tensive acquaintance IN Europe ana
! with some of these she has carried on
T correspondence. Mrs. Breitweiser also
+ had numerous photographs of persons
she met. and TO the presence OF these
/ her husband vigorously objected:
At first. II is alleged, she acceded to
I the wishes of Breitweiscr. She placed
/ the pictures in a trunk. Then she took
3 them out again. There was another oh,
/ lection. Back went the prescribed
photographs into the trunk. Several
Of the subjects OF the pictures wore
army or navy uniforms.
The beginning Of the end came in the
summer Of 1919. when the Breitwelser
+ family were staying at Mr.. Lesinsky's
camp, At Long Lake. letter came
/ there. says Breitweiser, for his wife
from one Freiherr Won Frieburg, which
vas signed Waeckerle.
/ About eight months ago Mrs. Brett
weiser went 20 Reno with her children.
Later her husband received Il letter
b from a lawyer in Reno telling him that
his wife had decided to live there long
enough to get q divorce. Then, he says,
/ his wife's brother, Albert Lesinsky
asked him 20 consent TO divorce,
q which he refused 10 do.
Mrs. Breitveiser returned TO New
/ York I'm October and went 70 live at
/ her father home. For n time Brett.
weiser was permitted 10 see his chill,
dren. Then that permission was denied
/ him. However, he found way OF com
nunicating with the youngsters. He
sent them books, writing endearing
notes on the hyleaf. Mrs. Breitweiser
discovered these clsndestine notes ard
( tho books were censored before being
1 eivcn 10 the children.
The BrcitweiseTs were married IN
, 1905. and for time the wfe's father
gave her 81 500 year to help pay their
| expenses.