Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-24
FIRST WIFE OF SPRECKELS,
RICH CALIFORNIAN, OFFERS
TOBUY ANOTHER'SHUSBAND
Three Parties to triangle"
Agree to Purchase" but
Poor Artists Wife May
Renege on Transaction

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. %
| What seemed to be solution OF
the eternal triangle for Mr.. and
Mrs. Rodney Kendrick and Mrs
Edith Huntington spreckels Wake
field, Of San Francisco and Sausa'
Ito, today did not seem so likely
to work out.
Mrs. Wakefield, who was the nrst
wife Of the late "Jack" Spreckels
son Of John D. Spreckels, ST., Pa
cific coast capitalist, according to
her published admission, made an
offer of 800 a month for the rest
Of her life" to Mrs. Kendrick, If
she would divorce Kendrick, 4
newspaper artist, so that Mrs.
Wakefield could marry him. That Is,
as soon as Mrs. Wakefield herself
secured a divorce.
The offer yesterday. it was un'
derstood, would probably be accept,
ed, but early today the artists
wife intimated she might take some
legal action other than divorce.
According to the versions Of the
unusual case, which all of the per
sons involved give, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kendrick had separated. Mrs. Ken
drick is i'll and has spent much OF
her time in sanitariunls. Mrs. Wake
field and Kendrick fell in love with
each other and finally agreed they
would marry it. they could get their
freedom, and that Mrs. Kendrjck
and her baby could live with them.
Revelations of Women
Mrs. Kendrick, the versions agree
in saying, was brought from a san.
itarium to Mrs. Wakefield's home
in SausaIto. across the pay from
San Francisco, where she remained
for several weeks as a guest, re-
ceiving medical attention.
It was while in Mrs. Wakefield's
home, the three persons aver, that
Mrs. Kendrick revealed she no long
er loved her husband, and the reve-
lation that Mrs. Wakefield did, to-
gether with her offer, followed. 1t
also was admitted that Mrs. Ken
drick gave her wedding ring to
Mrs. Wakefield, saying that under
the conditions she did not want it,
and that she was "sick, weary and
disillusioned."
The husband admitted acquies-
cence in the plan.
Mrs. Rodney Kendrick, Sr., moth
err Of the artist, sided with her son.
Mrs. Wakefield is 80, Kendrick is
80 and his wife is "a. Mrs. Wake
field has three children, the oldest
Of which is 10.
A statement from Mrs. Wakefield
said:
"It was a long time ago I told
Mrs. Kendric!s that I loved her
husband and wanted to marry him.
I promised her she would have a
home with Rodney and myself as
long as she lived. She is a very
sick girl and I took care of her
for weeks. A hundred times she
told me how grateful she was, in
the presence Of her husband and
his mother and sister. When we
left her put 5000 in the bank for
her to draw on"
The wife said:
What Wife Says
Mrs. Wakefield wrote me a let
ter five or six weeks ago when I
was in a sanitarium, asking me to
come to her home in Sausalito. I
mad met her year ago and
thought her motive was one of
kindness and friendship. Soon after
L arrived she told me that she was
in love with my husband and that
he was in love with her. She said
she would give me $100 month for
life and would see that my baby
was well taken care of if I would
divorce Rodney so that she Nigh:
marry him as soon as she secured
a divorce from Mr.. Wakefield. Ten
days ago she and my husband both
told me that 1t was a bargain and
they left in her car for camping
trip in the Lake Tahoe district"
The husband said:
Long before this episode my wife
told me she did not love me any
longer and intended to secure a di-
vorce. She had been i'll with tuber.
culosfs and for some time was q
patient at a Stockton sanitarium.
Several weeks ago Mrs. Wakefield
and I brought her back to Sausa-
Tito and the three of us were liv-
ing happily together. There was no
concealment of how things stood.
Mrs. Wakefield told my wife in the
presence Of my mother that she
loved me and would marry me If
we were free. There was no longer
any love between myself and my
wife and yet We were all friendly
1t was the plan that everything
should be done for my wife's com
fort and happiness, and up to now
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