The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-17
ART Smith CHARGES
WIFE' !.
Daring aviator Who Passed
Through Honolulu For Orient
Sues Eor Divorce

,Patihe 3. position, filed suit
for divorce against his young anil
pretty wife, alleging extreme cruelty.
smith was in Honolulu on last Wed
sday, and while the Chiyo Marn
was in port he created a sensation by
touring the city and environs in onc
of the red Hbaby automobiles that
will race him in his air machine during
his flying exhibitions in the Far East.
The mail which arrived from the
Coast yesterday brought details OF me
divorce suit against the girl who mad
b. en- Smiths companion from the time
he first tinker, d with an aeroplane m
iii Ne achieved worldwide fame As the
sensational aerial successor of the all
stirred b achey. ~.
Wrote ether hAen 70 Charge
In his complaint, Smith makes gen
eral charge Of cruelty, but while no
specific allegations are set forth, il Is
said that letters written by Mrs. smith
to men fIiefds win figure in the case.
Some of the epistles, II is said, were
written by Mrs' Smith TO Paul Cooley,
who obgrated a moving. picture ma
chine At the Exposition, and to Hurry
II. Harfesty. 49,
In one LETTER the aviator wife Is
alleged to have written: 81 can't de-
eide between PAM and Harry"
The cruelty charges Is as follows:
"That within Two years last past, the
defen5art, at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
and orler places, has conducted her
s,lf in an EXTREMELY cruel and harsh
rn4 inner toward The plsintiff, TINS eaus'
ing him eIeaf pain ard mental -,
Separated IN December ~
Smith and his wife separated in San
Francisco December "a, 1915, she re-.
turning TO her parents home in Fors
Wayne. -. -. ~. II.
ibs aviator seated before his de-.
Partbre from the Coast for the Orient
that he had observed growing cold
ness on the part OF his wife towaf
himself. Some time ago, he said, she
ceased giving him D good luck kiss be-
fore he made his dangerous fights, but
he was so absorbed in the work 10
which he has devoted and risked bis
life that ut 6rst be did not give serious
thought TO her apparent Indifference, 2
Execfpts from some Of Mrs. Smith y
letters--and, there is q fundle u htaI
--indiei te, il is claimed, that Sd was
attracted by other men va
= f"I am having. good time here
thanks to Harry; ? > one Of the lctteFs
T ads. HE took me to see 'Twif
Id Saturday haftefaooH and we i'd
a lot with him - I win have to IedSs
to"1' before long o there win be SON
ask here" 49, f.. E.. = 1lg. ~
You Poor, Dear KID "ta4.J d..
~''Was, SO sorry " hear of you get,
ting hurt, honey. You IGOR; dear kid, -
is the reading Of one letter, which
eansed Smith TO take immediate notice
Of his wife's actions. The letter was
written TO friend Of Mrs. Smith In
San Francisco, ~"sat"',
""We are going to party Of one OF
our OH sang who has just been mar.
ried," she wrote, il is. claimed, "anl
! don t care much about 1t. Ny Mitch.
ell Six wanted to come after me, but
nothing doing, as I would have on
awful tine explaining where he hailed
from. so, | win ase the Empire to-
night. His nGns Is Harry H. Hardesty
and be has black hair; brown eyes an
is pretty good locking. He treats IN ,
fine and Sc ms TO think q HI of .
lot more Of me than Paul does, but
like Paul Lest! Wish II knew Just what
Paul did think Of me. L wouldn't en-.
Courage Harry ~ much il Thought
,there was a chance there. q,
C{PferuiRg the syistor's attitude,
y" +" Smith wtote, IL Is asserted {; cart
/ sid in his last letter TO me, that ]
yh9ud he satisfied TO, remain settled
here for the present He little knows
how well satisfied am, Ny guy with
the Mitchell Six is making himself
more necessary every day, hut Paul Is
first, only | know that Paul doesn 7
care % much for me- s Harry does. -
Cooley In Chicago -
Iarl Cooley is widower and thirty.
six years old, ii Is stated, and is in
Chicago and employed BY an artificial
limb concern, according to latest re-
potts r.. .5,t5 ,.s. ~. '-.'
Smith, his friends say, maintained
silence regarding his alleged ,diseoy-
cries, and ut one time had In mind the
idea that his wife merely was indiis,
erect, and that while she enjoyed live
~ company, she really loved him. He
did not, however, permit his worries to
interfere with his work, and he now is
npdeE contract TO teach aviation to a
PIouF 81 amDHlous Jhpdhese'
Eloped In Airsh!p a.
Smith and his wife,, who was Aimee
eodT, we're schoolmates at Fort Wayne,
whore the romance which Is now a
broken memory, began. 1nipulsiyely
they clipped in an aeronlane from Fort
Wayne 10 Hilsdale; Michigan. where
they we're ymarried October 20, 1912.
Objections on the part o. the girl s
parents; who at that time did not look
upon SIN tn as anything more than an
impractical fov, induced the young
couple to Ay away in the air from their
home town I7-r"FtFNt' ~ o..
Misfortune market the sensational
elopement. The machine in which they
rode TN, and the girl and boy we're
carried In an une0nseiOus condition to
a hospital There they remained for
weeks, ard there the. marriage ceTe,
mony, was performed Tbs young
aviator during Mis- rise to fame often
declared his wife was the iBspiratior
Of his life. She said II was she who
first suggested that he learn TO ay, and
that the love aud Affection she dis
plaYed toward him Inquired him to
forge ahead in his daring fOfessloD.
TO dispose OF the " 10000 territor
ial refhnding bonds an the mainland,