The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-30
GENERAL
DEFEATED BY
HIS WIFE
Jeffries, with a Central Ameri'
can Record, Besieged His
Home in Vain.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Genorai Her
bert Ottley Jeffries, soldier OF fortune
and Central American revo~lu.ionist
who killed an American editor IN Pan
anna in 1910, besieged his wifs In al
apartment to which she had fed las
spring after suing him for a separa-
ton. This was the statement made
in an affidavit before Supreme Court
Justice Ford. 1t was added that JEFF
fries's purpose was to do his wife
bodily harm.
General Jcffries, who was sued
both for a divorce and a separation
is now in Honduras, and the actions
against him have not been brought &c
trial. his wife asked Justice Ford &c
compel her former attorney, Enos s
Booth, to turn over to her mos for
Sc, 1000, which, she says, she left with
him when she retained him to bring
suit. Booth replied that MrG. Jeffries
agreed that be could keep the notes f9l
his fee. Justice Ford decided that The
court could not compel Booth 10 turn
over the notes unless Mrs. Jefcles
sues and gets judgment.
Mrs. Jeffries told the court that The
notes are part of $4,000 worth given
to her by her husband, and that ts
they are the only property she has size
thinks the $4,000 fee too high. She
said she had engaged new counsel he
cause Booth assured her she would
have a decree last October and has
done nothing about the case yet.
In his answer Booth said tha- he
was retained last June TO u for q
separation and that after the papers
had been filed Mrs. Jeffries said she
had grounds for a divorce, so he filed
suit for that. She told Of alleged IN
cidents at Coney Island and at Greeley,
Pa, on which she ought to have 4 di.
vorce. but could furnish no evidense
concerning the Coney Island affairs,
and the other incident proved to be
an innocent fishing trip. She then
declared that her husband had been
seen with a woman in restaurants in
West Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
streets, and wrote her attorney on
September 20 last, 81 have found out
the name Of the handsome blonde for
YOU" Booth said that he learned later
that neither General Jeffries nor the
handsome blone" was known in the
restaurants.
81 have Investigated all the evidence
furnished me by Mrs. Jeffries for the
last six months" said Attorney Booth
but have found nothing on which to
move the caso for trial"
Mr.. Booth said that when the sep
aration papers were served on Gen
eral Jeffries he chased his wife into
her room, in which she locked herself
She called from a window for a po-
llceman. and then made her escape
to the apartment of a woman In West
152d street. He followed her there.
General Jeffries had no purpose to
see his wife except to do her bodily
HARM" he added.
Mr.. Booth said he told Mrs. Jeffries
that II she paid him for his services
with the notes she held he would want
two $4,000 notes because there was
dispute between her and her husband
over their ownership. She commended
that General Jeffries gave them to her
while he insists that they we're not ia
be given to her except in case of his
death. Mr.. Booth said Mrs. Jcffries
told him that through her husbands
influence in Central America he might
prevent the collection Of the notes
which were payable in Panama.