The Washington times., 1920-11-06
DIVORCE FAKE,
| SAYS WOMAN
Ars. Lillian Fry Tells Of Mid
night Visit to Husbands
Rooms Here.
FOUND "RIVAL WIFE" IN BED
Declares Husband Threw Her
PROSTATE Beside Other Mate,
As Latter Screamed.
FOUND "RIvAL WIFE" IN BED

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Suing for ab-
/ solute divorce, Mrs. Lillian Jean
Dick Fry, pretty and blonde, for
merly of Washington, d. c., sat in
the witness chair In Justice Vernon
M. Davis part Of the supreme court
and in -modulated tones told OF
her marital experiences with Lieut..
Sheridan Brooks Fry, U. 8. N. Of
San Diego. Cali
TELLS OF OTHER WIFE.
She narrated facts to show the
dashing young naval officer commit
ted bigamy when he married Mrs.
Helen Evans Clark. thirty years old.
on July IL. 1919. In his native town
Of Hebron, N. H. Decision was re-
Mrs. Fry testified she has the right
to caIl hsrseif Mrs. Fry No. I, bscAuseI
she was marrfSd to the iieutenants st-
Grown Point. Ind. on March 20. 1914
the officiating clergyman being the
Rev. Harvard Bell Mann.
Mrs Fry No. ! said she ana Lieu
tenant Fry lived IN her home city,
Chicago, until 1915, when they moved
here. where they made their home for
q year. They parted during 1917. and
the wife heard from the lieutenant
only infrequently afterward, when
she wrote asking for funds.
HUBnY LIVED IN WARRINGTON.
She said he's husbana livea for sssaa
taue at the fashionabbe apartment
kouse ut 1lO0 Slxteenth street north
west, wsshln1ton. Her actual knowl-
eAee Of His residence, she tegtfAed,
eama sitter nunber Of interesdng
Incidents.
In June of last year, she sad, she
received letter from an attorney at
Miami, Fla, who was an old friend
Of herself and family. informing her
that Lieutenant Fry had obtained
decree Of divorce in Florida
Mrs. Fry told Justice Davis that
she had never been served with notice
Of her husbands suit. in a-y manner,
and denounced 1t as fraudulent She
said she now has a motion pending
In the Florida court to set aside her
husbands alleged spurious decree.
A soon ~ she learned Of the action
of her husband, Mrs. Fry testified,
she engaged the Bradford detective
service at Washington. The detec-
tives subsequently reported to her
the full particulars Of her husbands
marriage to Mrs. Clark.
T. Walter Bradford, Of Washing
ton, testified that on November %
last, In company Of Mrs. Fry No. !
and q young woman friend OF hers.
he called at the washington home Of
Lieutenant Fry and asked the mailman
lie the naval officer still lived there
and was told that he and his wife
occupied suite No. s1s, consisting Of
a bedroom and bath.
About q half hour after midnight,
Bradford said. the three went up to
No. SIS, he slightly ahead Of the
young women. when he knocked at
Lieutenant Fry's door. he said. the
naval officer promptly opened II, say
Ing frostily, who are your"
"A. telegraph messenger" Bradford
answered.
LIEUTENANT sKEPTICAL.
You don't look much like q mes
senker." said Fry "but give mo tho
message"
THs iisSts.s.t s..psa when. instead
|ef recsivi~g tke familiar envelspe. he
was srsetsd sy BIS lawfui wife and
her yeung woman frisnA.
Seinang HIS wife roughly ~ the
wrist. witness testified. he s,srieS At
her. .se, s-a yss. this IL what II
ends inSs
A he spoke he save His wss.'s arm
q violent jers, espsing her to fan for
ward onts the bed. o. which lay Der
rival. r.
Mrs. Fry No. 2 began crying out,
even are not lis wife, ysu are net
his wife, I am his wtfsw
She repeated these declarations
many times, according to Bradford.
Lieutenant Fry. so his wife said.
10 now stationed at the United States
Naval Air Depot. San Diego. and lives