The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-09
ERRNlG WIFE IS.
FORGIVEN BY
MOTHER
anily Opens Home 10 Mrs.
alI-O Quest. Who pc
fled Convention

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 3
Unashamed Of the year she has
spent outside the pale Of the con-
ventions, living as the wife q
Fred W. Hart. Mrs. Shirley Iva
Knox Hall-Quest today found
sympathy and understanding Of
her perfect love- in that all
understanding person mother.
Stand Back 81 Her
Az the home Of son, here, the
little gray-haired matronly widow,
Mrs M. w. Knox, who gave her
daughter Ia marriage to Professor Al
fred Lawrence Hall-Quests at Red
wod Falls, Mimi, sixteen years ago,
today received that daughter back
into the family fold and there was
nothing Of reproach for her trans
gressiOns.
eve stand back Of her now =
Mrs. Knox told newspaper men here
] today.
And with the Eve" she looked
shout her with assurance that she
was speaking for the entire family
the businessman son, the two
younger sons, students at the Uni
versity Of Minnesota and the other
daughter. teacher in the public
schools at BeInidji, Mimi, where the
Knox family has lived since they
i left Redwood Falls shortly after
Shirley's marriage.
We could ten from Shirley's let
tiers that she was not happy. the
mother continued. In fact, she
had told uk that In her letters, but
Mr.. Hall-Qdest would not let her go.
when he went to New York to
take up his duties at Columbia
University, he left her at Cinctn-
natl and it was then that she found
that she really loved Mr.. Hart that
! she did not miss her husband, did
not care for him.
I Stand Back of Her.
MY daughter has written me
about the divorce, but did not exy
poet all this publicity to result Mr..
Hart had written me that he was
going to do everything he could to
protect her name. They are going
TO be married just as soon as Mr..
Harris wife secures a divorce.
Z Shirley was young when she
married Mr.. HallQuest, Rest as.
sured we stand back Of her now z
Backed by this staunch support
OF her family. Mrs. Hall Quest to.
day declared her determination to
make all her old friends and the
rest Of the world see her affair with
the former British army major as
she finally made her husband see It.
How long she win remain here
and whether or not she and Mr..
Hart viii go 10 Redwood FAILS or
Bernidii could mot EEfs
forts to learn whether the marriage
ceremony would be performed at
Bemidji also were unsuccessful. Z,
Three Cities ID Love Drama
Three, different cities were the
focal points In the complex love
! drama of Prof. Albert Lawrence
Hall.Quest, his divorced wife. Mrs
Shirley Iva Knox Hall.Quest, and
Fred w. Hart, the perfect love-
Cor whom Mrs. Hall-Quest deserted
her husband and Haunted the social
laws.
Accompanied by Hart. with whom
she fled from an exclusive Evans
ton, I'LL, hotel where they have
been living. Mrs. Halle Quest today
l was taken back to the family fold
at the Knox home at Minneapolis
where the couple was awaiting the
granting Of a divorce to Hart's wife
30 that legal sanction could be
placed on their union.
The professor had returned to his
duties at the University Of Pitts
burgh and was non-committal on
the developments in his marital af.
Ghirs.
At Cincinnati, the ''other woman, -
Mrs. Hart, was preparing to go into
q divorce court Monday to remove
the last barrier to the marriage of
her husband to Mrs. Hall-Quest.