The Washington times., 1924-01-08
LOVE TALE
IS DENIED
BY HER
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i. l., her husbands home. The
court then set the decree aside pend
ing investigation Of illegal collusiOr
and fraud.
Indignant at Charges.
Upon the arrival at the Hotel
Netherland from West Palm Beach,
Fla, Bassett remaining at Delroy
with Mr.. and Mrs. Montgomery
Schuyler, Mrs. Putnam was shocked
and indignant on hearing the charges
made by Mrs. Bassett that she
sought Bassett for herself.
She characterized the whole story
Of her midnight interview with the
two Bassetts, during which she IL
said to have demanded the freedom
of Bassett, then her chauffeur, as
malicious calumny" and gave q
strange and arreSting story Of In
trigue in the past to substantiate the
phrase. She said:
about two years ago / had q
serious illness, for which my doctor
prescribed certain treatment to be
administered by a male nurse.
OOSA6uASCO WALL AAAy WOIuCIA AIA0A4OSs
] consulted with Gertrude, whose
marriage with the well-favored lad
whom we had all seen clam-digging
and lobster trapping along the water.
front with the other town boys had
delighted US. She Immediately sug-
gested her husband. She was eager
about it. I suppose the little new
family needed money.
Her Illness Passes.
II engaged young Bassest. He
proved remarkably adaptable. The
doctor dubbed him a find.
my illness passed.
II have befriended Gertrude
Petri because l pitied her. We are
rather nice people in Madisoa. We
all pitied Gertrude Petri. We all
helped and we all were glad for
her when she married young Ellis
worth Bassett, one of the incest of
the town boys.
Remained Bassett, fixture and
q problem. He pleaded that he
was cut out for better things than
clam digging. Wouldn't 1 give him
Q chance? I did, and I can prove
by my bank account that I have
never had reason to regret it.
He graduated from one employ
in my service to another, until
finally. gave him a chance to con
due. some of my literary affairs-
that is, the marketing of my
literary wares. He has been a
marvel.
"how am characterized in this
thing? Remember have not seer
a Northern paper for weeks. lay in
my berth in the train, sick all the
way from Delray to New York, and
the porter wouldn't get me papers
And here, in the few hours since my
arrival, I have had no strength Ia
face the reading Of them"
An Enemy of Divorce.
She was told that there had been
the natural comment on the woman
as delineared IN her published v'urks
and utterances, many Of which deal
with divorce and domesticity.
She protested:
But I am an enemy Of divorce
! think divorce is criminal. Divorce
in my mind, is the last resort. And
], personally, have recoiled from
divorce for many months after the
time when 1t was obviously a neces.
0ity in my own case.
IT want easier divorce as the
remedy for divorce. See how that
would work out in my own case.
had good and suffic ent reasons
for divorcing r. ]. Sanderson, my
second husband.
Long ago, I know that they ex.
listed. But, held only by my in
Stinctive horror of divorce, I de-
layed. Then, when 1 knew the
marital relation was untenable, /
laid my plans. I wanted to do the
thing decently. 1 applied for 1t on
the most decent grounds I could
find. My lawyers approved. ]
thought them competent. All ]
wanted was divorce and divorce
without cruelty to either party.
'Now look what happened-my
divorce rescinded, myself almost
openly accused of some illegal trick
which is beyond my nonlegal un'
derstanding."
"News" to Bassett.
In a long-distance telephone in.
tervtew given to the Hearst news.
papers by Ellsworth Bassett, he
maintained that no discord exists
between himself and his wife and
said that the affair was "all news
to him."
He said, however, that Mrs. Put
nam.Sanderson, his employer. had
started Saturday night from Delray
Fla, Ito straighten things OUT
Informed that his wife had re
tanned counsel to sue his employer
on charge of alienation Of affec
lions, Bassett said:
"That is all news to me. Their,
has been no suggestion Of anything
like that from my wife. Our rela
lions, as far AZ I am concerned
are as friendly as ever, and-yes-
you can say they are as marital q.
ever, as far as am concerned"
"Now. I suppose I'll have to come