Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-07
M'LEANTS REMOVAL
AS TRUSTEE ASKED.
Wife, in Divorce Suit, Says
Neglect Has Injured Papers
Standing.
Continued From First Page.l
business men who are actual or poten-
tial advertisers in the Post"
Advertising Loss Cited.


tial advertisers in the Post"
Advertising Loss Cited.
In this last connection the bill says:
LAS a consequence of the habits and
practices of the defendant, it has be-
come increasingly difficult as time goes
on to secure advertising from local bust
ness men. Recently the volume OF adj
vertising has decreased tremendously
and is still decreasing as result Of the
practices of the defendant"
More or less continuously for more
than two years the defendant has been
scandously and VIGOROUSLY living In
Washington with a woman not his wife
He has travelled with her both in this
turn late in September, 1881, from his
European journey, he brought the wom-
an with him to Washington.
"Since their arrival she has attended
with him at least two business confer
ences in the Offices of the Post. This
conduct is SO shocking scandalous and
notorious that it creates q demoraliZed
condition among the other officers and
employees of the paper and injuriously
affects the good will and good name of
the paper itself.
Good Will Is Necessary.
at is absolutely essential to the
success of a newspaper enterprise TO
have it, and those prominently identi-
fed and connected with 1t enjoy a
good will and reputation in the COM
munity where the paper is circulated.
In this instance the activities OF Ed
ward B. Mclean have so injuriously
affected his own reputation and the
good will of the newspaper that its
standing as a newspaper publication
and its success as business enterprise
have been, and are being, seriously and
irreparably damaged and injured.
LAS long as the said defendant Is con-
nected with the Post as its editor and
publisher it is impossible for the news
paper to regain the standing 1t for
merly had and position essential to its
ultimate success. The defendant must
and should. therefore, be removed as
trustee of the estate of his father be-
cause 1t is impossible to discharge or
remove him as president and publisher
of the Washington Post Co. as long as
he continues trustee Of the said
estate"
Mclean was appointed as co-trustee
OF the estate by order Of court on Au-
gust 30, 1917.
Holds Cooperation Refused.
He has consistently refused, the bill
states, to cooperate with the American
Security & Trust Co.. the other trustee,
Ito the great detriment OF the Post and
the estate as whole" 1t is said the
trust company on one occasion at least
demanded his resignation as trustee
Mclean is accused of having per-
sonal employees and servants carried on
the pay roll of the Post
During the past several years" the
bill alleges, Mclean has fraudulently
withdrawn cash from the Washington
Post Corporation and appropriated the
same to his own personal use under the
pretext he was TO spend it on corporate
business. He has also, during this same
period. frequently satisfied his personal
indebtedness to merchants and others
by offsetting advertising accounts of
the corporation and in other ways CO.
mingling his personal accounts with
those of the corporation"
All OF these acts, il is said have
been detrimental and damaging to the
trust estate
Hits Mexican Divorce Suit.
The petition also criticizes McLean's
action in seeking a divorce from his
wife in Mexico after she had sued him
in November, 1880. in District Supreme
Court for maintenance.
The action was brought by Mrs Nc
Lean as the next friend of their three
children, John r. Mclean. I'd; Edward
b. Mclean, jr., and Emily B. Mclean.
The suit for divorce asks the court
to give the wife absolute custody of the
three children during their minority
and to compel Mclean. personally, to
pay $4,000 a month for their care.
He is described as being very wealthy,
with an income sometimes averaging
81 900 900 year"
The petition sets forth that the
plaintiff and defendant were married
July %, 1908. in Denver, Colo.
Shortly after September 8, 1890. Mrs.
Mclean says, her husband told her per-
sonally that he would pay no more
money for the maintenance of her
children and herself. and would con-
test every effort on her part to compel
him to do so. Despite this refusal.
she says, he continued to expend large
sums of money in a lavish and reckless
manner on himself and his friends
She alleges specifically that early this
year he paid from $4,000 to S85 900
for a large sapphire, which he gave to
"a woman other than his wife,
1t is believed Mrs. Mclean, in her
divorce suit, refers to the same "other
woman" mentioned in the petition for
McLean's removal as trustee.
Mrs. Mclean reciteS details of her
suit here for maintenance and of her
husbands attempt to secure a divorce
from her in Cuernavaca, Mexico The
District Supreme Court, on July 90
1881, issued permanent injunction
restraining Mclean from further prose-
cutting his Mexican divorce suit.
Says He Struck Her.
In October, 1929, she says. Mclean
was confined in Baltimore hospital
because of excessive drinking. Because
of the gravity of his condition, the bill
says, Mrs. Mclean was called to his
bedside and that he struck her fire.
quently, threatened her, cursed her and
knocked her down. She alleges he
finally escaped from the institution by
bribing an attendant and resumed his
habit of gross intoxication. She and
her husband separated, she says, in
June, 1929.
The suit charges that in May, 1928.
Mclean went to the Kentucky DERBY in
his private railroad car, ''unlawf,,llv
transporting with him, for immoral
purposes, a woman not his wife and
with whom he was having and had for
some time prior thereto been having
adultercus relations" The plaintiff
says she learned of this incident. but
forgave her husband upon his promise
to mend his ways.
Notwithstanding this promise. she
says, Mclean early in the Summer of
1929, went to Southern California
where he met and Immediately assumed
adulterous relations with another
woman not his wife. She charges that
in February, 1881, he brought this
woman to Friendship, his home ! in
Washington, for immoral purposes, and
that he has Travelled extensively from
enc State to another with her for adult
ferrous purposes. She also alleges he
took this woman with him to Mexico
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