New-York tribune., 1922-09-28
Still Loves Her,
Dulles Asserts,
Answering Wife
Calls Charges His Treatment
Caused Illness Scandal
ous and Malicious; Blames
Interference of Family
Not Rolling il, Wealth
Says Women Seen With Him
by Raiders Were Perfect
ly Respectable Persons

"Scandalous and malicious" is the
way counsel for L. Harrison Dulles, son
of the late l.. Harrison Dulles, banker
and society man of Philadelphia, char
acterizes some of the charges made by
| Mrs. Grace Dulles in her action for a
divorce. This refers only to the col
lateral issue of the defendants alleged
cruel treatment of his wife. AS to the
evidence turned up by Philadelphia
detective, upon which the decree of di-
vorce is asked, Mr.. Dulles says grave
mistake has been made and a great in
justice has been done to the persons
involved in the case.
Instead of being aroused to fight
ing pitch Mr.. Dulles, through his at
torney, told Justice McCook in the Su-
preme Court yesterday that he has the
greatest love for his wife and they
wvulu get along we'll together if it
was not Tor members of Mrs. Dulless
family, who interfere in their affairs
and also overestlmate his wealth.
Mrs. Dulles, daughter of Mrs. II. T.
Haines Halsey, of 81 West Fi1ty-fifth
Street, is a member of the Colonial
Danes. She is now undergoing treat
ment in an upstate mountain resort,
having contracted t1bercular afflic-
ton, it was stated, through being kept
in S6-a-day room in the Great Nor
compelled to take her meals in rotis-
series and other restaurants.
The affairs of the Dulles couple were
aisad before Justice McCook on a mo-
tion by Mrs. Dulles for $4,000 tempo
rarv =" imony and $4,000 counsel fees.
This charge against my client" said
Clinton T., Taylor, counsel for Mr..
Dulles, "that by cruel treatment and
causing her to live in a S6-a-day room
n ha ~
on tubercular condition in his bride
of few months, is a scandalous and
ma.icleas attack and lle.
Hcrsey Egginton, for Mrs. Dulles,
sold his client had been accustomed to
live in comfort and luxury before her
III RAG the defendant, and that
after she married Mr. Dulles she
N the manner of living that she had
enjoyed. Counsel for Mr.. Dulles ex-
planned that he had not yet come into
his inheritance and was dependent
partly on his mother for his living ex-
penses.
The action of Mrs. Dulles for a di-
vorce is based on the alleged miscon-
duct of her husband in an apartment in
East Fifty third Street. Mr.. Dulles de-
mes there was anything improper in
his visits to the apartment, which was
hSPI ny d DdCHelOT IIleHu. hey HdQ "
musical evening there, at which were
present two young women. One of
these, described as "young woman of
unblemished character" was hospital
nurse, whose duties did not begin until
midnight, fer which reason she was
taken to the hospital in the motor car
of Mr.. Dulles's friend. The stepfather
of Mrs. Dulles was one OF raidine
party, and he said the young woman he I
saw in the apartment wore what ap-
peared to be nightgown, over which
was black lace kimono." The jan
itress of the house, who let the raid
crs in and accompanied them to the
apartment, made affidavit that the !
woman was fully dressed and that she
observed nothing wrong.