The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-18
HUSBAND BEATER
Wife of Only American Baron
Hailed Into Court.
She Gave Her Lord and Master
Threshing at His Club.
GOOD LOOKS MOVE JUDGE
Mrs. de Patterson Told to Go
and Sin No More.
Husband Was Made Baron for
Oiling Up Portugal.
GOOD LOOKS MOVE JUDGE

New YORK, March 1S--AdrS- Beat
trice Anita Baldwin Turnbull de Pat
terson was arrested here for attack
ing her husband, the Baron Andrew
de Patterson, in the New York Ath-
letic club last Friday.
Mrs de Patterson is the good look
ing young woman who, claiming to be
the daughter of the late Bliss j.
(Lucky) Baldwin. unsuccessfully sued
for $2,5O0,000 of that celebrated
sportsman's 81. 900, 900 estate.
The baron is a Standard Oil com
pany Organizer. He claims to be
Americas only baron. His title is
gift from the late King Carlos of
Portugal, who thus rewarded de Pat
terson's work as a trade promoter in
Portugal
The baron and the then Miss Bald
win Turnbull were married in June,
1915, in Roxbury. Mass.
Today the baron in Magistrate
Levy's court demanded that his wife
be restricted from calling at his club
and creating scenes.
She Beiabored Him
Several times. the baron told the
magistrate, his wife had belabored
him. He said that he would not care
to see his wife sent to prison or any
thing like that, but he made it plain
that ne was tired of lodging his wife's
blows ana more imam llT6Q Oh lIS
blows he didn't dodge.
Last Friday, he explained, Mrs. de
Patterson met him at the doors of
the club. The doorman and a few at
PENDANTS were at the top of the steps
Naturally, they We're interested.
'She had a fear" declared the
baron, that 1 had no intention of re-
turning to her. And she was quite
right. L have no desire to return
made it plain to her. Then she struck
ri, 10n
on
The baron went on to tell Magis-
| trate Levy that his wife had done sew
eral things to discourage him. Once,
he said. she relieved him of a watch
given him by a French steamship
| company. The watch, he explained
was bestowed upon him for saving
the steamer Vinderpole and her 90
passengers from destruction by fire.
| Wife Is Pretty.
While the baron was reciting his
woes his wife sat in the very uncom-
Portable chair assigned to prisoners
The lower half of her face was hidden
| behind an ermine stole. But there was
plenty of physical evidence that she
has lost none of her beauty. She ex-
planned to Magistrate Levy that she
i was very, very sorry.
Really" she said, ST didn't mean
to strike him. And it wasn't a hard
blow
| well, what's this all about?' de-
manded the magistrate
Simply that my husband doesn't
want me, that's ALL replied Mrs. De
| Patterson.
There's something more serious
| behind this-some you have not
told me about" decided the magis-
trate. II warn you, madame, not to
annoy or disgrace your husband again.
Your good looks will not avail you
next time. Next time l shall do some
thing drastic
With that. the magistrate suspended
sentence and freed Mrs. De Patterson.
She left, promising to cease her as
saultS upon the baron
In reciting his woes to Magistrate
Levy, De Patterson said:
First Sight Love.
"I had known my wife but two
weeks when I married her. We met
at a hotel in New York. She was i'll
at the time. 1 was interested, gained
an introduction and then and there
we fell in love-first sight love.
But it is impossible to live with
her. She possesses both temper and
temperament "a combination that
will not fuse There is no hope of a
reconciliation. Immediately after mar
rage I learned things that made me
very unhappy. So. on January %, we
separated. 1 have granted her allow
ances which I have sent by mail"
Anita Baldwin Turnbull was the
daughter of Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turn
bull. who, as Lillian Ashley, married
Lucky Baldwin "by contract" She
court that her daughter should be one
of the turfman's heirs. Before he
marriage to Baron De Patterson, Anti
/ Baldwin Turnbull was a model.