New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-05
Divorced Wife of TIC
Cuyler Answers Suit
for Separation
AFFIRMS ONE THREAT
WAS WITH REVOLVF,
Accuses Hin OF Cruelty-g,
Action Brought II re After 81.
Got California Decree

Although Mrs. Grace Barton r..
recently obtained a decree OF s;,..
in California from lebanon c..
Smith Cuyler, lawyer and s,...
broker. formerly connected win :
Paris branch Of J. p. Morgan A.
her husband is suing her in New,
for a separation on the grovu J,
abandonment, in which action Y,
Cuyler has just fled her answer
She alleges that IN The twelve "a,
of their married life Cuyler never a..
ported his wife and children. VIA,
support fell largely on Mrs. Csylg,
mother, Mrs. Isabella r. Barton.
Cuyler also has a suit in the Suvr,-,
Court for 100000 damages against ),
mother-in-law for the alleged allen,
ton Of her daughters affection, m,
her husband.
Besides making counter slegstv,
that her husband was cruel, that 0, %,
occasion he threatened % shoe. b
and that he opealy showec MS admin.
ton for other Woinen, Mrs. Cuyler a ,
attention 20 a diary that her husss,.
kept. in which he wrote his sen,izsg
with regard 70 another young worr
whom. il . alleged. he hoped 70 -,r,
before he became the husband o. NJ,
Barton. Mrs. Cuy.er says she ios.
this diary among some Of her hgsbs,.,
papers.
"Conferring Immortality
One entry read: "Ny feelings tcvVl
her are as fixed as the polar star q.
will never suffer the slightest dsyisag
throughout time or the sweep Of sg,.
to the end and beyond 7 fully realm
that I am comforting Immortality W.
her by this writing. When / scar =.
lost, the wasted past gen Years. nsEr
the unbegotten posterity whom itts
cursed hellborn relatives Of hers M.
dered-aye, for gold The republic 5
the loser, but what can ! DO? The ri;.
IS fixed. and the light o. my poor lie 3
gone out forever and 1Ter. SO al ,.U
is left for me is TO watch the misersb,
game played 20 its uttermost eols.g-
sion"
Commenting on this extract from p,
diary of her husband, Mrs. Cuyer sad.
"This diary so affected me that ! h.
came III because of his reference 70 e,
miserable game and was n7g
thereafter deceived by his proteststo,i
of love"
Cuyler is the son OF the late Herr
Hunt Smith. who was ore Of the ots
known cotton growers IN the Sog,i
and the family is one Of the olteS I
the state Of Georgia, whence Cove
comes. He had his name changed in
Smith by the Georg Legislature
memory Of his ancestors, whom {,
traces back 70 1850.
Mrs. Cuyler accuses her husband q
extreme cruelty and 1ilill neg.@
which she alleges caused her 10 y
come prematurely Cry
She also tells iu her answer ss'.
her husbands attentions 20 Mrs. Cei'
stance Brown Nnllc nus VIE ahs T"
mother were with him in Dinan
France. This alleged attcltioa bIoag
about a quarrel between Mrs. Bros
and her husband.
Says lie Threatened Her.
An another occasion, IN London g
Mrs. Cuyler. her husband IN ea'e,'
her with a revolver because .ef mo'it
would not consent 10 have one OF
friends sit IN a window winch w
Barton had rented from which 20 :
the funeral procession Of King hGg1l.-
Mrs. Cuyler also says that her l''
band slapped her in the presence 81
their servants. H.
Cuyler made a deposition in 5 .. Z
vorce suit. lie said that Ms. bare
his mothor-in-law, tried 20 prevent :.
and his wife living together, ~
threats of disinher,ta e, cui'.-.
swearing, locking doors. all sofs I
things, some too horrible 20 meau1 ~.
Ms. Cuyler now lives Win Z"
nother at Alameda, Cal