Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-23
GARLAND ANDG|R[
|N0DD LOVE PACT
Wife Refused Other Woman's
Offer. to Share in His
Affections -.
ACCEPTS SPURNED MILLION

special Dispatch TO Evening Public Ledger
Boston, Jan. 23.-Philip Wrcnn'
boston broker. declared today that his
daughter, Mrs. Mary w. Garland, now
at Dedham, would never return to her
husband, Charles Garland, who recently
decided to accept, his share OF ms
fathers $6,000,00O fortune after stead.
last refusal for more than year.
The reason given Is Garland's al
legged infatuation for Lillian Conrad,
former secretary Of Garland's mother,
:, AT present Charles Garland and lii
llan Conrad are reported living IN.
dilnpidated old farmhouse in North
Carver, where formerly Joe April lived
with so many children that some OF
them had to sleep In the hen -coops. =,
Garland declares that great men and
women have many loves, and thinks he
could share his affection with eighteen
or twenty women. lie contcsses that
his wife does not share his ex raordinary
ldeas, and refused to go with him and
Miss Conrad to live in North Carver.
Mrs. Garland at Parents Home
Mrs. Garland returned TO her par
ents' home on Westtield street, Dodham.
more than a month ago, She had been
living With her husband aud her dnugh-
ter Margaret, who wns born year ni'"r
their marriage, on September l3, 10l
at Bay End, the estate of Garland :
mother at Buzzards Bay.
The mother Of Charles Garland, who
was Marie Louise Tudor before her
marriage in 1893 to James A. Gar
land, New York millionaire clubmanl
and yachtsman, is now, the wife OF
Captain Swinburne Hale. When the
trouble arose between Charles and his
wife, Mrs. Hale and her husband went
to Bermuda.
Garland Is related to some Of BOs-
ton s most prominent families. lii'
mother is the sister Of Frederic Tudor,
of Needham; Mrs. Frederick s. Con-
verse, OF Westwood; Mrs. Edward w.
Slade and Mrs. W. Startling Burgess,
the latter being the first wife Of Alex
Ander Henry IIigginson. His brothers
are James A. Garland, who married
Olive Jenkin, Of East Boston, show
model, and Hamilton Garland, who
married Irene Mann, his mothers fos
ter daughter.
Decides TO Accept Million
When the breach came between
Charles Garland and his wife he went
to the trustee of his fathers estate,
Henry ID. Tudor. and asked to be al
lowed the 81 600. 600 bcquenthcd to him
In November, 1920, he had startled the
country by announcing that he would
not accept any of his fathers money
because he did not earn 1t, and wante,
to follow the founder of Christianity
Mr.. Tudor followed the new wishes
nf tla n,,I Il
600 or more to Il representative of Gar.
| lands wife. Mrs. Garland accepted
this final settlement from Garland
heritage for the benefit of her children
The peculiar ideas toward life o
Charles Garland are attributed by hi
relatives TO his constant reading of tn,
works of Count TOlstoy. lie lived sev,
cral months in Greenwich Village, New
! York, and was an admirer of Johi
Reed the radical writer, who affiliate,
himself with the rulers of Soviet Rus
sia where he died.
lie was n pupil at Eton. England
for two years and st. paul's School
! Concord, for three years. lie was al
oarSman during his one year a
! Harvard.
His share in the estate of his fathc
and his grandfather, the first James a
Garland and founder of the fortune
| amounted to 81 900, 900,
Lillian Conrad makes a declaration
that she had belonged to Garland, bod
and soul. for more than n year, tha
she is willing that he should share hi
love with other women and would hav
been glad to live with Garland and hi
wife. had not Mrs. Garland refused.
She insists that money means nOthin
70 her and that she does not want
penny of his fortune She Is twenty
five and met Garland after she cntrrc
the employ Of his mother at Buzzard
/ BAY,