The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1904, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1904 JACK LONDON IS SUED FOR DIVORCE. WIFE SAYS HE LOVES ANNA Author’s Domestic Troubles Will Be Aired. Woman in Case Makes Heated Denial. OAKLAND, June 28—Jack London, author and newspaper correspondent, has been sued for divorce by Eliza- beth London, his accomplished wife and mother. of .their two pretty children, Joan and Bess. The complaint flled here to-day under seal, but it is understood that the cause alleged is desertion. Just a year, the statutory time, has elapsed since the couple separated. With the complaint was filed an or- der obtained from Superior Judge W. E. Greene restraining London from drawing eny funds, either for news- paper services, from his deposit In bank or from his account with Houghton, Miffin & Co., his Boston publishers, pending the settlement of the divorce proceedings. It is not the story of an ordinary do- mes upheaval that has led the young wife to the divorce court with her Behind it all is the shadow other woman, a gifted writer, has won the place in London’s hat the unhappy wife tried so hold. Anna Strunsky, stu- hor and follower of the so- | is the woman. Her name | closely linked with that | don that the wife has | the friendship and unhappiness re- | which the other | is nce of ory ¢ AFFINITY FOR MISS STRUNSKY. Not wrongdoing s | ©f Sacramento, who has charge of the | Anna Strunsky in her | €ase, said his client was under a phy- \ London: but Mrs. |Sician’s care. It is said, indeed, that| s she has ample reason | Mrs. London has for many -months 4 band. She declares | Peen in delicate health as a result of her husband’s neglect. Whether there | est his love for than one oc- shall be a bitter contest cannot be de- | termined until some word shall have | asserted, indeed, that 2 2 s found epistolary evi- | been received from London, who is in lon’s affection is re- | Manchuria. London came into prominence in the literary world after his return from the Klondike, where he wrote “The Son of the Wolf.” Following that excursion into a new 1 came “Children of the Frost,” *“Daughter of the Snc The Kempton-Wace Letters,” he Call of the Wild” and “Children of the Abyss,” besides many short stories: In his turbulent ‘career London has been | newsboy. sailor, longshoreman, fisher- man, seal hunter, novelist and war | correspondent | bright Young woman [ London is not yet serious accu- general her hus- oman whom he < ago has been trunsky. For ac- orce Mrs. London has | statutory of- ould be - entitled aration of one = ss Strunsky’s name was first pub- | The Londons married on April iated with that of London a |1900. Mrs. London was Elizabeth Mad- | 3 ' Kempton Wace Let- | dern, the daughter of Mrs. Melissa | £ were from the press as the | Maddern of this city, and a cousin of work of the pair. This collabora- | Minnie Maddern Fiske, the actress. c as 2 discu of love in a ph Mrs. London has a reputation as a| ed to indi- |teacher in English. It was a mutual| entiments of a |interest in literature that originally a series of epistles, | Prought her and London together. 1 d some attention. | 9 | { when the announcement | MISS STRUNSKY ASTONISHED. : at London and his wife Fair Young Author Protests Against Mention of Her Name in Case. SEPARATION OF THE LONDONS That separation occurred after the| M Anna Py was. ;;re.m; Londons returned last summer from a | Surprised last night when informe | that Mrs. London had commenced | slen lien. While there proceedings for divorce from her hus- ndon gained the be- hushand no longer Joved | Pand. She was aghast when further | Strunsky was the | @dvised that her name was mentioned | iis heart. So thoroughly | In the case. | Miss Strunsky & was the wife that she 1 er >n and departed ould 10 And their common brought . concile them was Lo Rom up his residence . ned here until r. London and I vere er war corre. | collaborators in n-Wa :vu.:’xlfir\h' dent ent to South- : ricr to’ his | while, but return- < 1 been living for a | s, and wonid Henry T. Mad- street brought me home from £ at the time aid that ostrated and could | R. T. McKisick Anc Good Morning! I call you up to tell you that you miss the chance of a life- time for bar- gains if you do not attend the sale of TAILORED SUITS, SKIRTS, JACKETS and SHIRT WAISTS : Now going on at CURTIN'S, 9l1- 913 Market Street. You know he’s got to vacate his store on July 15, and the goods must be sold. | | Good-by. | enti | arguments to be héard. | as he did to arouse his wife | Wells-Fargo Bauk, whom Hislop | wife about being careful of her repu- STRUNSKY Hanford’s Spouse Revolts at His Alienation. His “Grand Pas- sion” for Rival Causes Suit. ’ The agony of seeing her husband {Il in his own home, with the arms of an- other woman around his neck and her face pressed close to hfs, is the climax of the story told by Murguerl: Han- ford yesterday in a complaint Hiled for divorce, against her husband, Robert Gilmer Hanford. Her attorneys are Garber, Creswell & Garber. In addi- tion to the divorce the plaintiff de- mands an injunction against the hus- band and his brother, Albert Hanford, to prevent them from disposing of large property interests. She alleges that much of her husband's property was transferred to Albert without consider- ation and asks the court to invalidate this reputed sale until the division of community property is settled. She be- | lieves that $400 a month will do for alimony pending the litigation. Hanford is a mining man of wealth and position. He owns shares in the United Railroads, the Folsom Devel- opment Coinpany, the Syndicate Dredg- | ing Company, the Ashburton Dredging | | Company and the Folsom Machinery Company, besides other securities un- known. WOMAN IN THE CASE. Mrs. Hanford's complaint is novel in the manner in which it gives a se- quence of dates and events, and hints delicately at matters which are ordi- narily told in bolder language. The | woman named in the case is Mrs. Ga- | | briel Cavalsky, who, it is said, has left | | her husband and gone to live with her | mother The complaint avers that the Han- fords were married here on May 19, 1896, and that there are no children. The hus- band’s cruelty is alleged to have begun | on May 4 last. On that day they were | visiting the Hotel Del Monte and Han- | ford introduced his wife te Gabriel Ca- | valsky as “a girl she could play golf g with.” - - -+ | That was the beginning. On May FAMOUS AUTHOR WHO HAS | | 15, she says, they were upstairs in their | ED FOR DIVORCE BY | | home at 2207 Clay street, when the hus- i | band became “greatly agitated and o =5 | wept.” He said that he had lost his| e A e and Mr. London could | nerve. His wife's frequent persuasion | und s Mr. | failed to win a confession as to what | d somethirg ociar 4 in cumpuing the | his trouble was. His distress continued o et 113005 Ghegreat | for two days. He said it was not money | that a y «d wenan | trouble, as he “had more money than e T rary work she | he knew what to do with.” -On the 17th | he admitted that it was a woman and coutry when 1 was a Mo ohili, ro 1 dcem | that she was Gabriel Cavalsky, whom myself an American. I . in fact, almost | he had met at Del Monte and who was native tongne. 1 am in the home cf ly forgotten my resi, here with my ‘amfiy r.y brother, Dr. Max v As Miss Strunsky spoke her great, luminous, dark eyes flashed out ai thing but sentiments of love. She | was self-possessed, however, and | spoke deliberately and with great em- phasls. married and was then living with her husband. The wife then reminded the husband that hc was suffering from an incurable | disease from which he might be para- Iyzed and asked if Mrs. Cavalsky knew of it. He said no and asked if Mrs. Cavalsky might not visit him at the home in order that she might be told. | Thinking that this information might serve to separate them the wife con- sent>d, and accordi.g to the complaint, | herself called Mrs. Cavalsky up by phone at her home, the Hart House, on R BRI HISLOP EVIDENCE IS IN. Wife Denies Husband's Testimony in Reference to Paying Teller Brown. George W. Hislop and his wife| pyjis street. At that time Mr. Han- Louisa disagreed yesterday upon some | ford was ill in bed. After Mrs. Han- very material points in the trial of | ford got her rival oy the wire Hanford | her suit for divorce before Judge | 80t up and talked to her and asked her Sloss. The taking of evidence was | ! come to his house. | finished, and it only remains for the THE RIVALS MEET AGAIN. | She came at o'clock and Mrs. Han- ford immediately told her that her hus- band had confessed “‘all of the horrible | affair.”” Then Mrs.' Hanford left| the room. She returned to her bedroom an hour later and fn going to her dresser | Hislop was on the stand in the morning and during part of the af- terncon. He denied all of her charges of infidelity and claimed that his wife had deserted him. He admitted that he¢'had met Violette Griswold in the | passed the open door of her husband's north and had met her mother, but | room. Looking in she saw Mrs. Caval- | declared that nothing improper had | sky leaning over him, with her arms occurred. Explaining the incident | around his neck and her face against of tzking her to the Raleigh Hotel, | his. Emphasizing the agony of this | he said that he had been asked to | sight, Mrs. Hanford says that she im- recommend a place by Griswold and | mediately left the house and did not| had gone there with M Griswold | return until 10:30, after she had learned | and engaged rooms, while wold | by telephone that Mrs. Cavalsky had | looked after the baggage wold | left | came a few minutes later and Hislop | Mrs. Hanford says she asked her| left. He was questioned upon various points of the letter he had written his wife regarding the Griswold woman and said that he had written Jjeal- ousy in order to make her “get rid of Brown.” This reference was to Henry A. Brown, paving teller of is suing for-$50,000 damages for alien- ating Mrs. Hislop’s affections. Questioned further on this point Hislop said that he had spoken to his husband what he had talked about to| the woman and he replied, “what peo- | ple talk about who love each other.” | Then it ig alleged that Hanford told | the plaintiff that “the grand passion only comes to a man once and that it ! had come to him, making it necessary | he should stay with Mrs. Cavalsky."i He asked his wife, she says, to get a| divorce so that he could marry the| woman. This she refused to do. Then | he said he would go down town and live alone and send Mrs. Cavalsky away for four months and pey her expenses. If at the end of that time he thought as much of her as she did of him he would get a divorce and marry her. On June 14 he announced that his af- fections were unchanged. And now the | wife sues for the divorce. —_— & interlocutory decree of divorce prayed for by-M. A. C. Christesen from his wife. Annie E. Christesen, on the ground of cruelty. Christesen is the tation with Brown, and had teld her that the banker was notorious for his pursuit of the fair sex and had re- ceived a charge of buckshot from an rate husband in Nava. ‘When Mrs. Hislop was called in re- buttal she denied that her husband had ever spoken to her about being careful of her reputation with Brown or had mentioned the startling inci- dent referred to. On the contrary, she said that Hislop invited Brown to f;:;’;e.,m;hfl’ih Yo “f,rfe"‘:;”‘i““ee v 9 ', V] S a the house when she had exnressed a money-making institution, and he preference to be alone with her hus- band. Mrs. Hislon declared that her hus- band sent a friend named Lang to her. with a proposition for reconcilia- ion and she had told him that it was useless—that her husband had been untrue too often. - When she cited circumstances to Lang the latter is alleged to 'have said that he would never ask her to go back to Hislop and that no decent man on the road had any respect for him. She said that Hislop admitted having given Violette $50 and she reproached him for it, saying it was needed at home. PR G CHRISTESEN WINS DIVORCE. Must Pay Wife $19,800—Custody of Child Reserved by Court. Snperiur_.[!:d:e Troutt * yesterday placed the stamp of the courtyon the also owns property on Mission street, near Fifth. His complaint for di- | vorce alleges that his wife had hu- | miliated him by calling him a slob, hobo and worse names, and that on a trip to Honolulu she would have nothing to do with him. Finally she packed the household furniture and went to Berkeley. She filed an answer to his suit, denying all of his allega- tions and asking for a divorce herself. Under the decree granted vesterday it is stipulated that Christesen shall pay her $10,500 and $500 attorney’s fees, $100 a month for twelve months and $8800 in July of next year. She is to give him a quitclaim for her share in the Mission-street property. Their 14-year-old daughter, Ruth, has not made up her mind as to which parent she will go with, but it is agreed that whichever one she elects shall pay for her support and |and his {7 C. Dr. ‘DR. CHARLES CO., 1 GAY SHARPER CHARMS GIRLS Mont Rio Society Shocked at a Scandal That May End in the State Prison POPULAR IDOL CAUGHT After Breaking Scores of Hearts Gay C. H. Carleton Is Arrested by Sleuths Fashionable people at Mont Rio! | camping grounds on the Sonoma coast | were shocked and grieved when Post- | office Inspector James O'Connell and | Deputy United States Marshal R. defl‘ Lancie arrived last Monday night a.nd; took into their rude hands the idol Ol]: the camp, handsome C. H. Carleton, allas C. C. Lawrence, alias Elmer R. Chase, allas Joseph B. Kaufman. The gilded youth with many allases Is| wanted by the Federal authorities in Cleveland, Ohio, for using the mails for the purpose of defrauding the gullible portion of the public with a| fradulent banking and brokerags‘ scheme. i Carleton was a great favorite with | impressionable and unsophisticated | young women wherever he went. At Mont Rio, it is said, he mowed down the girls by the cCozen. The prisoner declined to speak of the charges| against him and threatened to fight | the removal proceedings, which will be | begun ih the Federal courts within a few days.. His bail was fixed by United States Commissioner Manley at $2000, in default of which Carleton was lodged in the City Prison. He sald he had $1500 with him, but that $2000 was beyong his reach. The name under which the prisoner | confederates operated was C. Lawrence & Co., bankers and | brokers, Schofied building, Cleveland, Ohio.” Connected with him were! Charles Carrao, alias C. A. Flanders, and George Harris, alias G. G. Ed- wards. These two fled, but were ar-| rested by postoffice inspectors in Balti- more, Md., and placed in jail at Cleve- {land, Ohio. The complaint charges the | prisoners with having secured from five or six victims $7500 through false and fraudulent representations made | through the mails. | Two weeks ago Inspector O'Connell trailed Carleton from Kansas City to Los Angeles. Before O'Connell reached that city Carleton had come to San Francisco and roomed on Post street. Then he. went to Duncan Mills and later to Mont Rio, where there are hearts that bleed with chagrin and dis- appointment. ———— Burnett's Extract of Vanilla s the best, perfectly pure, highly concentrated. * Picnic to Shell Mound Park. The Retail Coal Dealers’ Association will hold its first annual picnic to- morrow at Shell Mound Park. There | will be races and games for prizes and many gate prizes will be awarded, among the latter a $40 set of single harness will be a prize worth winning. | 5 <3 education. For this reason the Judge | reserves decision as to custody of the | child. | . WORKING CLOTHES DON'T GO. Judge Graham Orders Payment of Alimony—Other Divorces. His appearance in Judge Graham's court in a rough and ready shirt and working clothes, and his plea of earn- | ing only $50 a month did not serve Wil- liam H. Schmidt his purpose of fooling the court into denying the claim of his wife, Carrie, for maintenance. The Judge. who had seen the man sporting diamonds, ordered him to pay her $40 a month and $75 attorney's fees. The wife testified that she had never seen William in such clothes and she be- lieved he owned a half interest in the saloon business of Holtum & Schmidt. Schmidt said he only owned one $50| share in the house and held that in or- | der to keep his job. On the grounds of insufficient evi dence Judge Seawell yesterday denied | the application of Reger Walton for divorce from his wife, Phoebe, for de- sertion. 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