The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-02-23
WERE welded HERE;
NOW ARE SEPARATED
HUSBAND WAS CHARGED $40
EACH FOR KISSES WHILE
THEY WE'RE ON HONEY
MOON.
Parted Often and Every Recon1ilia-
ton Proved Costly to the Groom Of
62 Whose Wife OFTEN sperated Him
From Money.

a matrimonial barge that was pat
to sea in Hot Springs a few wears ago
/ mas gone ON the rocks Citizens and
! visitors viii recall that in April OF
1913 there was a considerable flood
land about that lime Louis l.. Salves-
ter of ST. Louis was here and ex-
pected every day TO be Joined by the
woman who was to he his bride Tie
! high waters held up the traffic. and
when She was delayed too long. he
Isent couriers under big rewards TO
get her and hurry her to him at his
hotel a ST. Louis paper says of their
further trials:
Ten dollars kiss for sixteen
kisses was the toll mis- wife exacted
nom him for honeymoon oscillations
according to the testimony of Louis
lSalveter, former director of the Rice
Silk Dry Goods Company in his suit
10 divorce his third wife, Mrs. Louise
Doueherty Salveter. which went to
trial before Circuit Judge Garesche
yesterday
Salveter also declared his wife left
him twice on their honeymoon and
that he was compelled to pay her
$500 each time She returned.
This is the third divorce suit If
the Salyeters. Before their marriage
in April, 1913. Mrs Salveter was his
secretary. employed to read 10 nm
because OF his failing eyesight lie
obtained her through u newspaper
advertisement, he said
Mrs, Salyeter filed the first divorce
suit on May /. 1914. and Salyeter ad-
vertsed that he would not be respon-
Isihle for his wifes debts There was
: a reconciliation, but in May 1915, Sal
yeter filed a divorce suit That, too,
twas patched up According to Sal
yeter, their last separation was in
december 1917
tSalyeter testified that his wife
called him an "old foolo and "cea-
fury plant" lie is 50 years old She
is about 40.
He said that she called him a
l"kaiser" and accused him OF being
pro-German. lie said he was not. Il
. was born in Bunker Hill, H., he said
Floods delayed Mrs Salveter when
she was on her way to marry Salveter
, in Hot Springs, and he is said to have
= offered a reward for anyone who
would find a means to get mis- BRIDE
l to- be to MIN. She finally arrived ~
] riding the last lap Of her journey in
a box car
Salyeter sai1 that foi,awii.g their
marriage in Hot Springs. Ark, he
! said she left him there and Went 70
, Kansas City, and that upon inducing
/ lher to return he was compelled 10
give her $500 He said they came 10
her home in ST Louis, but that his
wife left him there and went to her
home at Bonnie Terre, Md Again she
returned, this time bringing her
mother and exacting another $500, he
said
The honeymoon then was resumed
The said, but his wife insisted upon
taking her mother with them to At
llantic City Her mother no sooner
had arrived at the seaport, ne said,
THAN she got homesick and his vile,
lover his objections, accompanied her
back TO Missouri, leaving him in
charge OF a negro attendant who stole
$50 from him
A third reconciliation was effected,
Ihe said, in New York lie did not
Testify that any money was paid at
1.-THE third reconciliation, but testified
that mis- wife's clothes had cost him
$4,000 by that time He said that his
income then was only $3.50 to $500 a
month. but that his wife was Gem
polling him to live OH a $500 month
scale and that he was forced 10 sell
some Of his securities, with the re-
suit that now his income is only si20
a month.
He declared that he has high blood
pressure and that his wife knew II,
but that she endangered his life with
a vicious temper and by tantalizing
him.
salveters suit to divorce his sec
ond wife, Mrs IBlnache Hamilton Sal
veter, in 1912, was based upon allie
cations that she correspondent with
lother men, drank to excess and
caused him to lose $4,000 His first
wife died.