The Washington times., 1921-05-07
HONEYM0ONED.
ON )|TNEY BUS
Brooklyn Capitalist Sued for
Divorce Treated Bride to
"Rubberneck" Jaunt.


Risk, sixty-seven years old, banker
and knit goods manufacturer, who
was q bachelor until he was mar
ried June / last in Buffalo to Mrs.
Florence l.. Sutlow. was a WITT =,
ness yesterday before Supreme
Court Justice Mullan in his wife's
suit for separation.
DENIED LOVERS NIGHTS.
He admitted that ne wrote his wife
breaking OF their engagement just
before their marriage because she re-
fused to see him on three Sunday
evenings, which he said were "lover's
nights" but he denied that he de-
cided not to mail the letter because
OF his fear of a breach of promise suit.
His wife, whom he met first at So
cciaI gathering, is forty-one years old.
Questioned by George w. Glaze, at
torney for the wife. Risk denied that
he told the lawyer when the latter
was visiting the Risk home after the
marriage that II is cheaper to get rid
of 4 wife than fiancee."
do you remember telling me that
when you knelt before the rector you
knew she did not love your" asked
Mr.. Glaze.
in my mind" said the defendant.
do you remember that told you
you could not expect to awaken any
emotion I'm your wife as long as y'u
withheld the home in Stamford, Conn,
which was to be the wedding gift?'
II fully intended to give her that
house, free and clear. but she never
became my wife"
HONEYMOON ON BUS.
Risk testified that he got $4,000
last year from two corporations he
controls, but said that his total salary
for this year has been cut to $4,000.
He gave his wife an allowance OF
81 900 q month until he left her last
October and took trip to Cuba. Then
he sent her 81 900 and told her their
marital career was at an end. He
has been paying 5000 month ali
mony pending the suit.
Between February "a and Septem-
Der 2 last, he said, he gave his wife
gifts amounting to $21 800. and the
furniture in their home. He admit
ted that his only wedding trip was
ride on a Fifth avenue bus, but said
he had planned to take a honeymoon
trip to Mexico and California. He
said he had decided to adopt the sug-
eestion OF Mr.. Glaze to "use cave man
methods because he had been too
soft and easy
Mrs. Risk in her testimony said that
she "tried very hard to love the de-
fendant." but that his attitude toward
her made II difficult to do so. ''The
third morning after our marriage he
told me we could have 1t annulled,'
said the plaintiff" Mrs. Risk said
she and her husband had Quarreled
over sun parlor in their home At
Stamford and that he shook his bst
at her and said: Florence, you mar
ried me for my money. ] am going to
have the marriage set aside"
CHDED BY COURT.
In answer to a question from Jus
ticc Mullan. the plaintiff said that
Risk proposed to be her husband I'm
name only, and said she would not
have married him IL she had under
stood IL. Risk admitted when he was
recalled to- the witness stand that he
suggested giving the plaintiff s1oo.-
600 before their marriage, but she
told him il would not be necessary.
He denied that he had agreed to be
husband In name only.
ct seems to me that an agreement
to be husband and wife in name only
Is wholly an absurdity. n contradic-
tion in terms" said Justice Mullan.
''The whole trouble was that Flor
encc was a young woman, used to a
life OF gaicty. while liked a quiet
life" said Risk.
Numerous letters written by Risk,
both before and after his marriage,
were introduced. In some of them
Risk said.
Every day will be Sunday bye and
bye. We can enjoy nature in all her
var, ing moods.
WARNS AGAINST BACHELORS.
Beware Of the bachelor men; they
gobtle UP unsophisticated little wia-
ows at every opportunity. I just feel
like gobblinE up one myself now.
(Mrs. Risk was a widow when the
manufacturer married her.)
"If l had met you in the first bloom
of womanhood you would not have
been able to keep me away with .
broom.
II want you to be mistress of your
own home and of me in some respects.
am conscious of my pronounced
power to discern the thoughts OF
others, but what you do not give me
openly I will not seek"
After the wreck OF the romance,
Risk wrote:
II have nothing to remember Of frs
months of married life except a de-
pleted capital, a loveless wife, and
period OF continued bach elorhood."