The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-30
$4,000 A MONTH
PEGGY'S DEMAND
That's What Wife Of Mil
lionaire Joyce Asks
for Support
HER DIVORCE Is 0. \.
Lawyers Say They Can Prove
Marriage with Joyce Was
Entirely Regular

CuUCAGo. April 2o J STANLEY
Joyce. lumber prince VIII hc
asked Go pay between $4,000 and
100000 for tho Severance Of the
marital knot that ties him To- pretty
Peggy Upton -hrchcr.Itopldns-J
former roHics beauty and darling
~ society iu Paris. London. Vienna
Sew YORK aud Chicago,
This became known today when
Peggy joyce. Guiding private drier-
tivcs IN New York and nlouR the
way, came 90 Chicago e. dght th"
Joyce suit for nnnulment of tho MAJ
rlaEc
According 10 statements pf 'er.va
lawyers, between $4,000 aud t'5.huO
month win be asked for 'lmuuy.
The law they did not u'situo -"
point out. entities them 90 nsH ai
least ono fifth " the milliuu1Ir"
lumbcrman's Income.
They will proceed ON the basic of
report that Joyce paid To- t'" gov
crumcnt for 1890 u flat 1000 600
income tax
The solicitors fees. t vut ,s,l-
mated. would be- srt nt between
$4,000 and tio0 200
Attorney Weymouth krlIprd ~
tho firm of Kirkland McCormi 'k.
Patterson s. Fleming win direct 'hc
defense of tho Mrs, Jo,cc sido of
the Wit
II was declared TINT Peggy Joycs's
reply to her husgand'. charges VIII
include counter accusations ~
drunkenness. cruelty Insane jcnl-
ousy and persecution. Al of JoyccH
chnrCcs. which arc said To include
collusiou iu connection with the di-
vorcc action Itself. viii he flatly de
MED.
The defense claimed TODAY ihot n
has I'm its possession certified copies
OF Fort Worth TEXAS records 90
show that PcEgy's divorce from Shor-
burnc Hopkins. ir was obtained
there two days prior 10 The Joyce
wedding, January "a 1919, and other
Rffidavits 10 show that the parents
and relatives OF Sherburne HOpkiny,
ir,. made their home In the Texas
city. Joyce has charged In his suit
that Hopkins was not legal rcsi-
dent of Fort Worth and that his al.
vorcc from Peggy did not take place
untl after his own (Joyce's) mar
riage 10 Peggy.
Moiawhlle. Peggy Upton Archer.
tIopk ins Joyce awaits In seclusion
word from her New York lawyer,
she arrived It was reported. carry
! ing sT50,000 worth Of rare jewels,
which her husband seeks TO regain
IN addition to annulmcnt of his mar.
rlagc.
she consented 60 see an inter.
viewer 10 whom she told OF her
longing for simple lifc."
Dressed in Il black velvet toagpwn,
trimmed In greon, the former stage
beauty declared she "did not want to
be tho dressod-up darling Of a man,
showered with gifts, pampered ana
spoiled"
II want to live my lifc, TO have
my career unhampered," she said,
Il loved my work on the stage and
i wanted To continue u.
Men always sought To develop IN
nae a taste for richer and more lux
urious things After the follies there
came a show that failed Then !
met Joyce when | received word OF
my divorce from HOPKINS. wanted
TO wait4siN months but hc insisted on
marrying at once,
After the marriage there came a
change. Tie didn't want ne to 20
out or Acc anyone. lie wanted me al.
ways to he alonc with him. Wealth,
beauty youth. luxury cXtravagant
tastes, AT these he wanted TO have
for himself I had everything
could wish tor except happiness.
~ am sick OF II an I await only
the day when can go back once
more 10 my career and begin again"