Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-20
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thing on which he insisted was the
settlement of a quarter of a million
dollars on the "other woman" to
whom he had given his heart and al
most his strawberry leaves.
Whereupon Mrs. Atherton took ship
for India and new conquests.. There
she entangled Captain the Hon, John
Reginald Lopes Yarde- Butler Of the
Scots guards-now Baron Churston.
The long-suffering Colonel Atherton
was allowed to name this gentleman
as correspondent and was given his
freedom by the English courts
Yarde- Butler. by this time, had
complicated the triangle by trans
ferring his affections TO a charming
actress, Miss Denise Orme. He Quietly
married her. That was the last quiet
event in his life for some little time.
MIS-. Athertoni eXemplifying the truth
of the old saw, Hell hath no fury like
woman scorned' made personally
conducted raid one night on the con-
Jugal apartment of Yarde-B Butler then
brought suit against him for $500, 900
| Tor breach of promise and succeeded
IN having read in court-of couse be-
fore an eager society audience--his
efratc love letters to "Girlie Angell'
and Darling Love" During the case
the interesting point was raised that a
mans promise to marry a married
woman is void as an immoral con-
tract. But Mrs. Atherton won the suit
ana then magnificently refused to
cam financial damages, saying that
| she had only wanted 'tvindication.''
London called it revenge
Two years later she again appeared
| IN court having hnon
| respondent by Mrs. John Alexander
| Stirling, whose husband was suing
! her for divorce on the ground of mis-
conduct with Lord Nerthland. Cap
| tain and Mrs. Stirling had been living.
| incidentally in what has been called
the "hoodoo house of domestic happ-
| piness," Amberly cottage, at Toplow.
! II was owned by Mrs. Anterior. who
| llVed there when shes was divorced by
her husband, and when she brought
| suit against Yarde- Butler. Before that
the cottage had figured in the divorce
suit of the Earl and Countess Russell
| In Mrs. Strings charges she mem
| toned Amberly cottage as the scene
of misconduct between husband their
fair landlady.
During the suit. Mrs. Strings
mother an American woman, Mrs.
Z. II, IaylOr, was charged with as
sault by Mrs. Atherton who told in
police court how Mrs Taylor had
broken into her flat and attempted
to choke her, threatening to spoil
her beauty" The mother later assert
ed that Captain Stirling won his suit
against her daughter because the
Scottish judge was literally fasclnat-
ed into his decision by Mrs. Atherton."
She won another suit-and dam
ages of one farthing-a few years lat
err against her own brother Sir Au-
brey Paul, and his wife, whom she
charged with scandal because LADY
| Paul had said that Mrs. Anterior had
been turned out of a Cairo hotel be-
cause of her behavior.
In the meantime, two years after d.
Vorcing her, Colonel Atherton by
chance went down from London to a
garden party in the same compart-
! ment with his former wife. He
promptly proposed to her for the sec
ond time, the gossips say, and it is
a fact that for years he has been her
4 loyal and devoted friend. She made
what was perhaps the only tactical err
ror of her career of conquest when
last spring she married Capt. Arthur
Eliot, many years her junior Appar-
emily he was the first man she failed
to hold, since he was living apart from
her at the time of her mysterious sui
eide