The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-01
BALTIMORE
WOMAN IS
NAMED IN
ACTION
Former Mrs. Wendell Phillips
Tells Of Finding Royal Mate
in Apartment.

The Princess Won der Llppe-
Lipslki, better known to Washing
fonians as the former Mrs. Wen
dell Phillips, organizer Of the
Garry On Club, 1000 Rhode Island
avenue, refuses to carry on any
longer with her noble husband.
Her determination was demon
strated yesterday in New York,
when through an attorney, Joseph
A. shay, she filed an affidavit
pleading that she be allowed to
serve her sister, Mrs. Gertrude
Schroeder, Of Baltimore, with
papers by substitution in an action
Tor alienation Of affections.
ssys she Found Them Together.
AIrs. Schroeder, the princess as.
oerts. stole her husbands love. That
became very clear tc her. she AYERS.
on the morning Of October 20. At
that time, her petition recites. she
Ne6srfsaned that the prince was in
the tHo-room apartment Of Mrs.
Nctroedsr IN West 10th street,
New york. She went there with
witnesses. she says. and found her
sister scantily clad. while her hus-
bands habiliments were strewn
about the place.
The Princess Won der Lippe- Lipsld
has encountered numerous difficult
7ftes IN serving Mrs. Schroeder with
papers, It is set forth. An at
fached affidavit Of Bernard Ben
nett. q process server, affairms he
IL IN
forts TO deliver the summons, and
It IS further asserted that Mrs.
Schroeder was to have sailed for
Europe a week ago, and win I'M
doubfedIy sail at the earliest pos
gitle date.
Hence, the request for permission
20 have service by leaving q copy
Of the papers with Mrs. Schroeder's
landIady, and mail another to her.
Stolen Love Cited.
aThe defendant, who is my sister,"
the princess complaint declares,
s'Iaas weaned away the love and at.
lection my husband bore me and for
some time past has endeavored, and
has finally induced him to part with
me.
NY husbands conduct toward me
completely changed shortly alter his
intimacy with the defendant began.
He told me he no longer loved me
and that she was all the world TO
. him.
When the early morning ca1l was
made at Mrs. Schroeder's fiat, says
the princess, she did not see her
husband, but she heard his voice
and beheld his discarded clothing.
The Princess Won der Lippe- Lip.
ski was q party TO a dramatic meet
ing last summer in Washington
Her son, Lieut.. Wendell Phillips, of
the army air service, was killed
while plotting a plane at the Aber-
deem Proving Grounds. He saved
the lives OF five other men by shut.
ting off the gas when he saw q
crash was inevitable, preventing an
explosion of the tank.
Father Was There.
Funeral services were read at
The CarrysOn Club. This organic.
ton. for disabled former service
men. IL Q project to which the
! princess has devoted much time and
| care During the ceremonies over
I the body or the son, middIe-aged
man was seen to turn aside and
/ weep. Asked II Lieutenant Phillips
&t5@% 1SSu ISAdIIVes ne rep1eo
simply:
/ He was my only son."
u developed that the elder Phil
| nps, who had served as a captain
In the world war, had seen the
story OF the young officers death
On the bueetin board of a Balfi
n8Ore newspapers Washington bu
reau. He identified himself as tIls
father, and went ON his sad errand
/ 20 the Garry On GLIB. There he
and the Princess Won der Lippe
/ Ipsn met for the first time In
1hfeen years, having been divorced
fn 1908.
The princess is well known In
/ the society of Washington and New
| York, as Is her titled husband
They were married by a civil. cere
sacny September Is, 1922, and bS
q religious service May ~, 1923.