Evening star., 1944-05-10
Cromwell BIames
Politics, Another Man
For Marital Troubles
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELIZABETH, N. J., MAY 10
James H. r. Cromwell. seeking to
invadidate the Reno divorce OBJ
tanned by Doris Duke Cromwell, told
Chancery Court he has been very
friendly" With President Roosevelt.
but that the wifes trustee and the
Duke interests are good old-faSh-
ioned reactionary Republicans.
| Mr.. Cromwell former Minister to
Canada, testified yesterday he had
lost his wife's affections for two
reasonS-"first, she had become in
fatuated with another man, and in
the second place her trustee =
always hated me and did everything
he could to poison her mind against
me"
/ Mr.. Cromwell's counsel identified
the trustee as Thomas l.. Perkins,
New York lawyer.
The husband told Dougal Herr,
advisory master in chancery, that
after he persuaded" his wife to
contribute $4,000 to the Roosevelt
campaign fund in 1886 her trustee
and counsel poisoned her mind
against me"
Calls "Other Man Dead Issue"
Mr.. Cromwell told the court he
would consider it a favor" If identi-
fication of the man he said was the
object of his wife's infatuation could
be avoided, because to me it is
dead issue"
Previously, Mr.. CromWells counsel
had charged in court proceedings
that Mrs. Cromwell had turned her
husband out of the Duke mansion
near Somerville, N. j., and that Mr..
Cromwell's bedroom was then occu-
pied by his successor in his wife's
affections, truant member of the
British Parliament"
Mr.. Cromwell, reiterating denial
of his wife's charge in her Reno
New divorce action that he had
demanded settlement from her to-
falling 100000, testified yesterday
that the allegation was "a deliberate
and malicious lie"
He said the $1,000, 900 was to be
used as a trust fund for charity ito
save income tax-oh, but strictly
within the law"
Mr.. Cromwell said he has been
called a New Dealer, and has "al-
ways been in favor OF public own
ership of utilities"
Mrs. Stotesbury Deposes.
A deposition taken in Florida
from Mr.. Cromwell's 79-year-old |
mother, Mrs. Eva r. Stotesbury,
and read into the court record,
stated that Mrs. Cromwell told her
she would never be happy any,
where else" but at the Duke estate
in New Jersey.
"It seems" the deposition related,
that it was January 9, 1910, at my
home in Washington, that Mrs.
Cromwell first told of her inten-
tions to divorce Jim, just three days
after his appointment. as Minister
to Canada had been confirmed by
the United States Senate.
"a great change had come over
Doris" the socially prominent Mrs.
Stotesbury said, and she treated
Mr.. Cromwell with great indif-
ference and rudeneSs."
Six witnesses in addition to Mr.
Cromwell were called to support his
plea for invalidation of the Reno
decree on the ground his wife was
legal resident of New Jersey and not
of Nevada.
Also pending in Chancery Court
here is Mr.. Cromwells petition for
a limited decree of divorce in New
Jersey, under whose terms neither
party would be allowed to remarry
and under which the husband would
have curtesy rights in the wife's
estate.
The wife, although served in Ne
vada with copy of the complaint,
has taken no legal cognizance of Mr..
Cromwell's suit here
Advisory Master Herr continued
the hearing until TODAY