New-York tribune., 1921-07-22
Wife Accuses
Butterfly Girl
I'm Divorce Suit
enne LA Barre, including costly gifts
clothing, spending money, auto rides,
trims and amtlsaments
CONTINUED from page one,

enne LA Barre, including costly gifts,
clothing, spending money, auto rides,
trips and amusements.
Besides maintaining Butterfly" and
her mother at the Hotel Woodward,
the expenses for the upkeep Of home
for them at as Msaon Street, Sommer-
Vile, Mass. Mrs. Shaw says that the
only employment Miss La Barre has
had since she has known the defendant
was short engagement at the Ziegfeld
Follies. She includes the following
letter to her husband, with her sup
porting affidavit, in addition to list
of weekly bills alleged to have been
paid by Mr.. Shaw:
MY darling sweetheart: 1t seems
that at these times when my greatest
trials and tribulations come you are
never near me to comfort, cheer. or
help me. Just to think to have
sweetheart and to be engaged to bs
married and at time like this not
to even be able to reach him by tele-
phone or wire. Mamma and | just re-
ceived word that Aunt Jessie is to un-
oergo serious operation on Tuesday
morning. It's just sort of chance and
we want to be near her while we can
give her every encouragement 1t would
be so sweet of you if you would write
her some sort of CHEEKY note and
mamma will call at the house and bring
1T to her at the hospital. She has
grown so fond of you and always
writes so sweetly of you for she, too,
sure how happy we will be. Please
from your loving little sweetheart,
Madrienne Butterfly. You went be able
to reach me, but III wire or phone
you"
Perjury Charge Made
Mr.. Shaw is charged with deliberate
perjury by his wife by alleging that
she ever condoned or forgave the mis-
conduct she charges. Mrs. Shaw also
submits copy of certificate issued
April 3, 1901, stating that her decree
nisi, won against William M Jordan
in Middlesex County, Mass, is "to be-
come absolute after the expiration of
six months from the entry thereof
unless the court has for sufficient cause
otherwise ordered"
Mrs. Shaw says that she is destitute
and that she has not dollar in the
world, and declares that she has not
received any money from her husband
since March 10, 1921, and she has been
lUICeu 10 move from neT apartment at
255 West 1OSth Street.
Mr.. Shaw, she states, has refused to
permit her to occupy "The Farm" in
North Salem, Westchester County,
which they occupied for four years
when not living in town. She has
debts amounting to $4,000 and is in need
of medical care, which, she says, she
cannot obtain because of her financial
condition. Mr.. Shaw, according to the
affidavit, occupies an expensive apart
ment at West Sixty-seventh Street.
Mary Harrigan, chambermaid at
the Woodward, also made an affidavit
which accompanied that of Mrs. Shaw's.
She submitted another affidavit, which
was filed yesterday, in which she saws
that the first affidavit was so drawn as
to cast reflections ueon Philip M. Shaw
and Madrienne La Barre. Her affi-
davit yesterday declares that Mr.. Shaw
was frequent caller at the apartment
of Madrienne La Barre and her mother
in the hotel, but at no time were Mr..
Shaw and Miss La Barre alone She
admits that she heard Mr.. Shaw call
Miss La Barre Sweetheart" but says
that Mrs. La Barre also called her
sweetheart" which seemed to be pet
lame Miss Harrigan says she saw the
defendant Kiss Miss La Barre, but that
he also kissed her mother.
Robert A. Fowler, an assistant r,or-
ter in the hotel, in an affidavit accom-
panying Mrs. Shaw's papers, says that