The New York herald., 1921-03-27
TOBACCO DEALER
MUST PAY WIFE
HEAVY ALIMONY
$500 a Week Is Assessment
Made Against Edwin G.
Mccullough in Suit.
ONLY CHILD KILLED
Abandoned After Both Her
Legs Were Broken in Ac-
cident, She Charges.
JUSTICE IS IMPRESSED
Romance Of Poor Printer Who
Gained Wealth in Philip
pines Is Revealed.

Charging abandonment by her hus-
band ten days after an automobile
accident in which their only child was
killed and both her legs were broken,
Mrs. Louise Mccullough of 40 River
side Drive, began yesterday an action
for separation from Edwin Clifford
Mccullough importer and exporter
Supreme Court Justice Erlanger was
so impressed by tho charges in the
affidavits filed with the County Clerk
that he directed Mr.. Mccullough to
pay his wife $500 week alimony and
$4,000 counsel fees pending outcome
Of the suit. The award is one of the
largest made in recent years in the
local courts.
Mr.. Mccullough is 80 years old, the
head Of e. c. Mccullough & Co. Of lie
West Seventy third street. The company
imports cigars and tobacco from the
Philippines and sends there paper and
printing stock. Mrs. Mccullough al
leges he is worth at least s2,000.006.
She is AZ.
Just as startling as the alleged ahan-
donment is Mrs. McCuilough's charge
that her husband sought to use her to
compromise man with whom he had
business dealings when the McCulloughs
lived in the Philippines
According to Mrs McCulloaghs affi-
davits she was injured and her daugh-
ter was killed in an automobile ncci-
dent In the Bronx on June 27 last The
girl, who was Is years old, was at the
wheel of the automobile when her
mother directed her to surrender it to
the chauffeur. While they were chang
ing places the big machine swerved and
struck tree. A piece of glass pune
tured the daughters lung and she died
almost instantly. Mrs. Mccullough has
been an invalid ever since. with two
nurses in attendance and frequent visits
from specialists.
in outlining the history of their mari
Inl life, Mrs. Mccullough describes
herself as a musician of ability and
linguist, speaking German. French and
Spanish, as well as English. She lis the
daughter of a musician and was living
at Bunker Hill. Cal. suburb of Los
Angeles. when Mr. McCulough met her
at a dancing school. She was then 10
years old. Mr.. Mccullough was VERY
much attracted" to her. and on April
20, 1898. they eloped and were married
at San Bernardino, Cal In 1898 the:.
went to the Philippines to live and
until 1915, when they returned to the
United States, Mrs. Mccullough recites
that she was prominent in the social
life OF the American colony there"
An estrangement, Mrs. Mccullough
continues, was due to the fact that her
husband, "in order to gain business
advantage over another man, attempted
to use me in a situation TO compromise
this man and thereby cause him to be
run out OF town" Mrs. Mccullough al
leges that because she refused to par
ticipate in the scheme her husband beat
her. knocked her down and kicked her
while she lay PROSTATE and then car
ried false tales TO their son.
Their married life was happy, the
plaintiffs afildavits continue, until Mr..
Mccullough began to tell her of his
affairs with other women. wives of his
social and business friends, and she was
compelled to break off her own friend
ships with these women. She says he
justified his absence from home until
early morning three or four nights a
week by telling her he was entitled to
live his life in his own way. These in
trigues with other women in Manila were
carried on shamelesly. she continues, so
that to calm her own feelings she took
a long trip to Paris in 1906.
when the novelty OF his escapades
wore off or his affairs seemed fraught
with danger" she continued. he always
came to me with disgraceful confes-
sions--humiliated himself 10 me to
degree that was pitiful, and in seeming
earnest pleaded with me to forgive him
and let him use his past to correct his
future. We started anew. but the start
was soon the finish.'
When she married Mr.. mccullough
he was printer in san Francisco. Mrs.
Mccullough recites. After the American
occupation of the Philippines Govern
ment printing contract he held was ex-
tended to cover considerable work on
the islands, so they moved 10 Manila
They camo to New York In 1915. taking
an apartment at Breton Hall until they
established their own home In 40 Riv-
erside Drive. corner OF 113th street. But
hor husband left her In January. 1920.
she says, when he moved his effects
~and his liquor" to the New York Ath-
1etic Club. III
He returned TO her after the death OF
their daughter and her own injuries IN
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