The Washington times., 1922-02-17

QUEEN To
Be. JAILED
Warrant for Perjury Issued
Against Boarding House
Landlady at Alexandria.
BY HARVEY L. COBB.


CCopyrighe 1874. by The Washington
Times Cempany.t
Mary L. -Raggett, Little Reno's
Uivorce Queen" in whose house
divorce seekers could "live" q year
in a night, is today being sought
by police authorities armed with
a criminal warrant for her arrest,
sworn to late yesterday afternoon,
by Thomas J. Wright, q victim Of
the Alexandria divorce ring.
Made Many Dispositions.
Hundreds Of dispositions have been
made by the Little Reno's famous
divorce queen, swearing under oath
that she knew each person, and that
they had lived under her house for
more than one year prec eding the
date of the false deposition.
Her nine-room house, in which she
swears that she has harbored one
hundred people at one time, Is ad-
jacent to the home OF Judge Robin
son Moncure, whose home Is the
office of Budwesky & Davis. the
avowed divorce kings. and who are
referred to by the Divorce Queen as
my boys next door"
Queen" Baggett. according to the
criminal warrant sworn to by Mr..
Wright, il charged with willful and
felonious perjury, in that she swore
that Mr.. Wright's wife, Isabel Reed
Wright, had lived at her home for
a year, while the victimized husband
OF the ring asserts that she never
spent a night in Alexandria In her
life.
THE fact that my wife never lived
in Alexandria can be easily proven,
despite her testimony to the con-
trary," Wright asserts.
Perjury Charged.
Mrs. Wright made q sworn state
ment in the Circuit Court In habeas
corpus suit filed in the District that
Washington was her home. I'm
mediately afterward she went to
Alexandria, and Mrs. Baggett made
a sworn statement that Alexandria
was her home and that she had
lived with her.
COPIES OF the papers in the
habeas corpus hearing in the Dis
trict contain the sworn statement
that my wife lived in Washington,
and II will. I believe, take an expert
lawyer to prove that my wife could
be both a resident of Washington
and Alexandria at the same time"
the husband declares.
Other aerious charges are prefer
red by Wright against Budwesky
and Davis and other members Of the
ring in sworn affidavits. making
statement under oath that he had
been framed" by the Divorce
Kings and that his name had been
forged to certain papers in answer
to his wife's suit.
According to an oath made by
Wright, the answer to his wife's
charges are forgeries, and that fol-
lowing The Times expose, when he
confronted Budwesky and Davis,
charging them with framing him"
and citing the forged papers, that
the papers have since been removed.
The forged papers, Wright says,
were taken out of his court papers
more than three weeks ago and are
still missing. Copies OF the messing
papers, however, were made prior to
their disappearance and are now In
possession OF Judge j. X. M. Norton,
a member of the investigating COM
mittee.
In signed affidavit to The
Times, Wright characterizes as a
'Iie" his wife's declaration that
she had lived a year at the home
of Queen" Baggett, who signed
the deposition, on which Budwesky
a Davis secured Mrs. Wright's
divorce.
wright's wife secured a divorce
In Alexandria In thirty.three days.
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