The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-09-02
MRS. REEVE NAMES
FIVE OTHER WOMEN
|NDNORCE ACTION


Like. a soldiers roster of his sweet
heart-so reads the divorce petition
OF Mrs. Grace Parker Reeve, daughter
OF Lieut.. Col. Leo. NJ. Parker, of 1912
Sixteenth street, against her husband,
Capt. Ernest Manning Reeve, late OF
Texas, but now Of parts unknown.
Breaking all records in the CO.
respondents stakes, Mrs. Reeve names
Ave women in asking for an absolute
divorce, custody OF her two children
and permanent alimony for their sup
port The correspondents are called
Clara and Emma, Estell, Virginia and
Gene, according to the divorce petit
tion. and there were others, according
to Mrs. Reeve.
The i've women she names are
women Mrs. Reeve has never seen.
They are of the sort of persons
who never come into my life" says
Mrs. Reeve. They are of a sort that
ought never even to exist"
According to Mrs. Reeve, Clara lives
In San Antonio, Tex: Emma was last
seen in Kansas City, Mo-: Esten is
from San Antonio: Virginia halls from
n Texas city and Gene was in Calves
TON AT last reports.
Not Interested In Types.
Mrs. Reeve knows nothing and
wants to know nothing OF the women
upon whom Captain Reeve is said to
have lavished his affections and his
money. Whether they are blond or
brunette, short or tall. buxom or Pc
title, she knows nothing and cares
less. She only knows that the divorce
Is five times as complicated as the
ordinary divorce libel and wants to
see the last OF II as soon as possible.
According to the mass OF evidence
gathered by Mrs. Reeves attorneys.
J. Barrett Carter and Francis L. Neu-
beck, the dashing Captain Reeve, well
known in Washington. broke hearts
all over Texas during the time he
was stationed in that State with the
Twenty-ninth infantry. Persons hav-
ing OF do with divorce libels are ac-
customed to seeing one correspondent
In a divorce petition, but when
flock OF five are actually named and
the. suggestion made OF others whose
exact names are unknown, they begin
to wonder what the limit actually is
Ms. Reeve trie sto explain her hus-
lOllg IN a lllOSL NHdElldDlt way.
"Since one must believe that a man
who acts as my husband has acted
cannot be in his right mind" she
says, ut is perhaps better neither to
discuss nor blame him. l have only
taken the matter into court because I
was forced to after years OF suffer
ing and bitter humiliation. never
expect to see Captain Reeve again.
want to finish this last chapter by
divorce, and then close the book"
Mrs. Reeve is in a highly nervous
condition and is under a doctors care.
Drops Out OF Sight.
Captain Reeve has practically drop
ped out OF sight since he was dis
missed from the regular army last
January. Results OF a court-martial
in Texas City in March. 1915, were
made public January last. Since then
he has contributed nothing to the
support OF his wife and children, ex-
cept the sum OF So, and Mrs. Reeve
has found II necessary to reside with
her father, she says.
That the domestic affairs OF the
Reeves were in a strained condition
as far back as 1910 was revealed by
the death OF Mrs. Grace Graham Par
ker. the another of the present petit
TONER. In her will. Captain Reeves
mother specified that no part of her
estate was to fall into the hands of
her son-in-laE, the text of the docu-
ment stating that she had good rea-
son for making such a will and want
ed to prevent her daughters becom-
ing at some future time without
means OF suppoIN. She foresaw the
separation which took place four
years ago and directed the American
Security and Trust Company to pay
the net income OF her estate to her
daughter after February 81, 1928. or
from the time that Captain Reeve
should die or her daughter become
separated from him.
The Reeves were married here IN
April. 1908. by the. Rev. Dennis J.
Stafford. The son. born n year later
and named after his father, has since