Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-21
Threat of Wife to Smoke
Cigarettes Also Figures in
the Cause of Action in
Los Angeles Case.
RICH CALIFORNIA
MAN REBELLIOUS
Cross Complaint Charges
Him With Being Cruel,
Ora bbed and Writing
Mean Things to Mother.

Los Angeles, Nov. 21.-Now, as the
legal documents say, comes the steril-
lied kiss
Don't dodge. It may not be coming
your way. So far it seems only to have
come to Albert NJ. Gloyd, an elderly
ii.'n of wealth, to whose .'ecent action
for divorce a cross complaint was filed
by his 2S-year- old wife Mrs. Maiette
Smith Hearne Gloyd. The story is told
in the following manner in a Los An
geles newspaper:
In the as yet unset trial OF this ac-
ton and the cross complaint, which is
expected to be one of the most sensa-
tional as well as bitterly fought con-
tests in the history of the Los Angeles
divorce court, much more will prob
ably be learned Of the sterilized kiss,
which, according to report. was devised
by Mrs. Gloyd especially for her 81
year-old spouse.
ALLOWED TO KISS HAND.
Again, according to report, Mrs.
Gloyd was reluctant to accept demon
STATIONS of affection from her husband
and the extreme limit to which she
permitted his elderly ardor to go was
to imprint a chaste kiss upon her hand.
Then when he had kissed her, Mrs.
Gloyd would hasten to her room, steril-
lie her hand with copious applications
of alcohol and hurry back to tell her
husband of the return she had made to
his osculatory advance
You see, it was simple and, like all
kisses, in that two really should share
them. And in this case Mr.. Gloyd was
said to do the Kissing, while Mrs. Gloyd
did the sterilizing.
HUSBAND WORTH $75o,o0o.
Gloyd, who is said to possess pro-
perty valued at no less than $75O,O0O,
much of 1t being in Kansas City, was q
Widower when he met his young wife
in Colorado tyo wears ago. He had
gone to that state for his health and |
In the young woman he married-then |
Mrs. MajcCle Smith Hearne, a fair |
divorce fresh from Texas-he thought |
he saw the most desira BILE thing in life. |
The oouItship was swift, as Gloyd, |
despite his age and Ill health was an |
imretucIs wooer.
They passed their honeymoon in |
Denver, where soon reports crept about |
that all was not as rapturous as 1t |
might have been in the mansion In |
which Gloyd installed his bride.
Then they came to California a year
or more ago, passing two weeks at the
San Francisco exposition and then
coming to Los Angeles, where they
have since resided.
WIFE CHARGED WITH PLOT,
Things went from bad to worse, 1t Is
said. once Mrs. Gloyd filed a suit far
separate maintenance, but later with
drew it. And on Marcl: s, last, she left
her husbands ZONE, after a stormy
scene in Which. it Is alleged, he ac-
cused her OF aving conspired to place
ann In a compromising position with
ms woman au,se--a conspiracy which
he alleged was to net the nurse $4,000,
II ~ was successful and Mrs. Gloyd
s25,oc+ from him through it,
few weeks ago Gloyd filed suit. al
.e2inS that she had tainted him with
heinS old an9 gray haired; that she
complained or being tired of living with
an Invalid; tliat she told his young
chauffeurs of her loneliness; that
she spent much time motoring with
young men; that she kept the house
stocked with liquors against his pro-
test; that her threats to smoke cigar
cites made him i'll and that she spent
at least $500 Il month on frivolities
In her answer and cross complaint
Mrs. Gloyd, after making a general
denial of his charges, also accused him
of cruelty. alleging that he was crab
bed, flew into RACES, blamed her with
whatever went wrong about their resi-
dence and accused him with having
sent letters full of unsavory statements
about her to her mother She asked
for aiimony of $3.50 a month. 1t is un-
derstood her husband is willing to
give her $780, but wants to have the
divorce granted to him.
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