Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-09-13


scandal that stirred faculty ~,circaessof
the University of Illinois eliminated
il the fling 81 the set6Hd Two
a me sri sIlh' -. MED 's by i Prelsssor
Cyrus E. Palmer, teacher in the school
okengineeriRg. Mrs SYLVIA C. Palmer,
his estranged wife. has started s stits
Of ~snappy parties. sfven by MIS-.
Palmer, together with the wife saot
Professor Ia A. Wilson formerly q
colleague of Palmer, ehut now OF the
faculty Of, the University Of Cincinnati,
Processes Names Butcher.s !
carl A. Carlson, a butcher in Cham
Palmer in his suit az the Zone person
most responsible for his wife's scam
Ms. Palmer,s suit sfor. divorce Al.
leges her husband cruelty beat And
smaltreated her, on several occasions.
One time. she charges. he hit her so
foIcibly with an umbrella that Il was
broken.
IN her bill OF complaint she main
tanned that she had BEEN resident OF,
Chicago for more thanla.Syear. At
torneys Harry e. tKerker of Cham
paign and Robert p. Burkhalter of
Chicago. counsel for Professor Palms
er, hled a special appearance ques-
tioning the right of Cook county
courts to hear the case as Mrs. Palmer
was a resident of Champaign and not
Chicago last ear
school children Together.
my wife and 1 were school chill
dren together in Augusta, Illinois"
Palmer said.- II have always loved
her, and until Carlson became
acquainted with her several years.
she always seemed to love me. We
were married in the summer of 1911
after clipping to Palmyra, Mo. / was
then a professor in Pennsylvania State
college," 81. ~. aA
A new angle to the 'snappy parties
given by Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Will
son was revealed, Palmer said, when
the story of the latter's relationship
with Fred Prison, proprietor of the
{ Ills., was narrated. It is y Palmer's
claim that Carlson, with Mrs. Palmer,
and Prison, with Mrs. Wilson, spent
nights of revelry in the Palmer home
during the professors absence.
carlson was for a long time q
member Of the Zouave performers
with Ringing Brothers circus"
Palmer continued. H has q good
appearance. Ny wife became infatu-
ated with him in the summer of 1915
while / was employed in Toledo, Ohio,
as a consulting engineer. .
Ice Chest Camoufage.
when I returned to the university
my wife took up a curse in a business
college, and she was supposed to at
tend classes therefthree nights a week.
Instead. I later learned, she went to
Carlson's butcher shop and spooned
with him in what was supposed to be
\ the ice chest. It was a shrewd
camoufage.
.At one time in the winter of that
year my wife made a trim to Chicago.
presumably to shop. Tequently, L
learned she and Car 4 aged at a
Loop hotel. Carlson, he mean
time. had sent his wife on a trip to
California.
When I began, finding out my
wife's relations with Carlson / -trailed.
her. She found it out l4and for
months we lived like tive strangers.
She leaked the door to her room and
1 did the same thing. She caFried+a
revolver given her by Carlson.
1.-THE climax anne however, fol-
lowing the close of the schol year. I
told my wife I was going to Toledo.
Instead, I stayed in Champaign. That
night police raided my home after we.
had seen Mrs. Wilson,, Prison and
Carlson enter. My wife &thantsadmit-
ted intimacy with CARLSON,
CA '- 40 T..