The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1913, Page 3

ee ee a RS. GLOVER WL A THRO HSBIND > WHO SLEW EEO Former Wife of Vice-Chan- cellor Lewis of New Jersey Figures in Tragedy. WEDDED THREE TIMES. | \ loped With Boer Veteran, Di- vorced Him and Saw Him Shot Dead. ‘When Mrs. Roy L. Glover entered « reom of her home in Los Angeles, Cal., Monday and saw her husband shoot down a man who had at one time been her husband also, fate was adding an- ether climax to the many which have punctuated her eventful fife. And when the Arial of Glover coours she will tea- tify that her latest husband ehot in self- defense—ané another scene will be add- @4 to the kaleidosecpic drama of her life. - It hae been a life marked with change ‘and its consequem excitement, this of Myre. Glover. At one time fate had it im hand to make ber firet husband Gov- ernor of New Jereey, because she had been the wife of Vice-Chancellor Vivian M. Lewis of Paterson, one of the most Prominent politicians of that State and & contestant for the Governorship against Woodrow Wilson. But Lewis was defeated by Wilson by a plurality f @,°66. Her second iiusband is dead her third husband stands charged with his murder, In the days before the shadows be- gan collecting about her life Mra. Glover was Miss Campbell, daughter of Heary Godwin Campbell, senior mem- ber of the Stock Excha firm of riman & Co., which had ‘The Campbell home was in Paterson, N. J., and Miss’Campbell was noted for her wit and charm and beauty. She was accomplished as few others in the she gathered about her. She was! of the strung, study, “outdoors” typ and pl She rode and drove and was always at the forefront tn sports in which wom- en participate, LEWis\ WON HER FROM MANY OTHER SUITORS. ltors there were many, and they urting with eager hearts, be- avee there were so many. And the * one who did win her was a young man to who: the god# had been good, whore future seemed assured, He was Vivian M. Lewis, a power tn the Republican! politics of the State and a lawyer of | stinction, Although # young man, his career had carried him high. He had been member of the Legislature from Paseaic County and Republican leader of the Assembly. He had succeeded Governor-elect Stokes as clerk of the king and Insurance Commissioner. And now the romance shifts to Mra . Lewis, as she was then. b he Lewis household. There had corn, “upon the scene a handsome, sturdy for- digner, Daniel de Villiers, a soldier of fortune, a Boer who had distinguished hiectt in the Boer war as a commander of @ detachment of scouts operating in ‘West Griqualand and the Orange Free fate. He came of a distinguished fam- tly of Cape Town and he wore romance lightly upon his sleeve. It was in 196 that he came to New York as @ mem- ber ef an organization of Boers and Af- Misanders engaged in giving a Boer war wpectacie. He left the organization end opened @ riding school In Paterson, N. te sent Mre. Lewis to him as @ pupil. This was the beginning of trouble and the rough running Lewises’ affairs, The upshot of tl wes that Mra. Lewis preferred the hand- ome Boer to the New Jersey politician and ao she went away with the foreign- er. Lewis was prompt in suing for di- vorce and he obtained it as promptly, the courts granting him the custody o! their two children. DESERTED BY DE VILLIERS IN SOUTH AMERICA, \fter the marriage De Villiers and his wife went to Kve on @ ranoh in Cotulla, Le Salle County, Texas, and for a tim both were prominent in the life of the colony of English people who had set- | led in the ranch, country. But they | left there one day, and the next heard of them they were in South America, There De Villiers had deserted her. Two children had come into the world a result of the marriage, and with} fem Mrs. De Villiers turned back to ‘nis country and came to New York, ! snaking a home in One Hundred and Jhancery Court, and then become State | j,, tune in minin; THE EVE American Girl Who Wed Rebel General Villa, although figuring now in the news asa patriot and warrior, has deen a bandit all his life. of the bandits of other da: and to the poor, but he is of t! For many years rich ranch own: He fs an contributing to Villa's band, But he has remained a popular idol among the common run of peons because he has distributed his ill-gotten wealth with a lavish hand—from a Mexican the rights of property or persons he has been shrewd enough to curry to the support of the masses, His method of taking a wife was characteristic. store, looked her over and decided that she belonged to him. outside he summoned a number of soldiers and ordered them to surround the store. cashier. The woman, protesting, was led forth. him forthwith. A priest performed simplest of formulas, and Villa carried his Incident oreated little comment here where Villa is well known. When he left Torreon to follow his campaign his wife rode beside him in the finest carriage Villa had been able to appropriate. uniform sat on the box beside the coachman. Thirty-ninth street, near Eighth ave- f more she journeyed Weat- ime Roy L. Glov. rich fand agente appeared in her life. | He and Mrs, De Villiers fell in love and @2 goon as Hie obtained @ divorce they were marrieu. De Villiers, returning to this country, wt the woman who had been hi wife He traced her to Los Angeles and there sought communtcation with her. She, however, had finished with him, and when he learned it he became in- sistent that he be received in the Glover home. Hie last day on earth he did get into the Gloves, home, and Glover met him there and shot him to death, Mra, Gtover entered the room in time to see the tragedy. There has been a romance too in the life of Mra. Glover's brother, Henry G, Campbell jr. It was he, the Ajax or Hercules of the Stock Exchange— @ youth of juggling with 300- pound weights—who married « pretty manicure girl, Lucile Stevens Purdy, who kept an establishment in West ‘Thirty-third atr She too had had an eventful career. Her father, Dr. ‘W. D, Thompson, at CaMfornia pb; for ale. came to New York in 1896 and married Henry Spencer Purdy, @ stock broker. After of married life they separated @ obtained a divorce, In 19029 nd young Campbell met and after an announcement of their engagement, which stirred New York for some time, they were married. FAMILY DECLINES TO TALK ABOUT SHOOTING. As dispatches from Los Angeles have failed to make clear the date upon which Mra de Villiers and Glover were married, and as neither 1s willing to EX This Here's good news for sick folks— sefferers from constipation. Ex-Lax is w never-failing remedy and a pos ve delight to take. 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Reports from Villa's camp eay! his forcibly acquired wife js accompany- ing him in his campaign and appears to be ie am American woman who has Uved for 4 considerable time in in other countries who stole from the rich Then he commanded the proprietor to bring forth the Gringo is policy of taking what- who is isfled with er position. GEN-VILLAS uneducated man and knows nothing A 150-POUND ANTHONY FAILED TO BAR OUT HIS 250 POUND CLEDPATA She Came Through the Door | and Shied Stove Lid at Him— | Both in Court Now. | Robin Hood type, nevertheless. miners and merchants have been point of view. Utterly regardless of He saw her tn the Stepping Villa told her she must marry the ceremony on the spot, using the rife away in tilumph, The A soldier in a sive the date, Henry G. Campbell Jr. was asked to-day if he would give the information. At hts office, No, 11 Wall street, he said to an Evening World) Her husband, who lives at Twentieth Fevorvart |etreet and Mermaid avenue, and owns to ‘@ have no information of any kind | to give out about my wister as to her |the fFont name of Anthony, manages to marriage to Glover or the date of tts | t!P the beam at 1% when at top weigh: occurrence,” [And this Anthony fj having troxbi He was then asked if the family in- | with his Cleopatra, They were both in tended to side with her or leave her | the Coney Island Police Court thix Rnirlended, and his answer was as morning, and the recrimination was ali e ace, net ne, atatgnents would be | that would not be desired, Vivian M. Lewis, Mra, Glover's fret |, nud Anthony: “Mra, Fox lea abed husband, sald to-day to an Evening |i Roura 'n the morning while T and an EB | World reporter at his home, 576 Park |™Y seventeen-year-old daughter, Rose. avenue, Paterson: |@o out and work Uke mules for her |Look at her. She's a fat as a pix She got all her flesh since I've h ; jher, because he sleeps all morning and pee ent sb aakiiee ver. | makes my younger daughter wait on y only source |y, the 0 5 [of information concerning her affairs, |", The other night she came home |1 had hoped that nothing would ever|&* 1 o'clock in the morning and Jake up my divorce from Mrs, Glover, | Wouldn't tet her 4m, so she put her especialy nothing so spectacular an a #houlder to the door and broke it in murder. I have our two boys in my | She shied a atove iid at me. custody; they are fourteen and nine| Said Mrs, Anthony: “Hie main hobby old. Of my former wife's life|is to make a fool of me before com- Mrs. Catherine Fox of No, 216 Surf avenue, Coney Island, ts forty-two, and welghs °50 pounds. “I have never heard from Mrs. de Villiers wince our divorce seven yeare ano. I did not even know that »#! year and affairs | know nothing since sh@|pany He threw @ can of hot grease went out of my If! at me. It wasn't 1 o'clock when I got . hom it w , and I'd been to gee DR. MONTESSORI, SAILING, |i cots kotecs SEES GREAT FUTURE HER The ¢ would app ten days In jall. Mixing of People of the Earth a Benetit—Praise for the Amer- ican Mother. She was unhesitant in her approval, “You can send her over if you want | to. Judge.” anid the husband, “but 1 care for any myself." " rt put the cass over until . $1 and instructed Mra, Hughes the probationary officer, to see if sir Dr. Maria Montessor!, inventor of the could not bring the fat and the lean unrepressive system of teaching chil- together in amity. dren, sailed for home on the Lusitania ee atl A. M, to day. “Your wonderful country i# one of the hopes of the clvilised world," she said, “The feel of youth 1s in the air and the You will rear here the greatest @ that the world has ever known, It $2,000 FOR GAYNOR FUND. Surplus Lett by Adamson Banquet Goes to Memorial, The executive committee whith had charge of the recent banquet given in honor of Ruvert Adamson held a meet- ing yesterday and, to the surprive of the members, it Was found there was an unexpended balance. The members The mixing of the people of the earth Produce a great posterity, “IL must bow with humility to the American mother. e is one of the ur growing race.” Who brought Madame, of the committee wno attended the among other members) meeting, Luther B. Little, Thomas O of the Montessorl Educational Associa: | MoGii, John W. MoDonald, Stuard tion committee, bade the educator | jjirsciman, Charles Steckler and David going to 0 | 4, ng on the natue ching children, BI Kaye '@ method will revolution. | 4 on, Were puzzled for some time what disposition to ma: of the rplue onal syxtem of the worid,| Mr. MoGill nally guamented that the the future will find the Mun-|‘noney be sent to the Gaynor Memorial method in every primary grade| Committee, which proposes to erect an + stung monument in memory of the or at the Brooklyn ridge entrance, This suggestion was | adopted, and Mr. Hirschman, the treas- urer of the committee, forthwith sent a check for $2,000 to James Speyer, the treasurer of the Gaynor Memoria) Com- KANSAS CITi, M falling over most of Kai NING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 191 ‘FOUR HELD IN BAIL FOR WHITE SLAVE: | FILMAT THE BUOU Employees Caught in Last Night's Raid Give $1,000 Bonds for Trial. | THREATS BY LAWYERS.| Magistrate Murphy Says He Will Issue Warrants When Application Is Made. The four persone arrested at the Bijou Theatre test might on warrante charging them with exhibiting indecent | moving pletures purporting to portray the “Inside” of the so-called white elave traffic were arraigned to-day in Chief, (Magistrate MoAdoo's office. The: waived examination and Magietrat Murphy held them for trial in| Special Geeatons under hall of $1,000 each. | The defendants are Juiia Tenney, 6) ticket seller; John J. Heagenny, a man- ager; Harry Jewell, the ticket taker, and Wittam Foley. While the police court proceeding was in progress Justice Gavegan, in the Su- | Preme Court, heard a motion made by Robert L. Turk, counsel for Samuel H. London and othera responsible for the filma, to adjourn until Dec. 30, mente on an injunction obtained last Saturday night restraining the police from interfering with the exhibition of the films in the Park Theatre, Columbus Circle, Justice Gavegan adjourned the hearing until Dec. 3% . The lawyers who are acting for the producers of the films threaten to take action against the police oMcers who raided the ghows at the Park and the Bijou, but they confine themselves to threats, Aesistant Corporation Counee! George Nicholeon, who ta looking after the interests of the potice, declared in court to-day thet every action taken dy Third Deputy Commissioner New- burger and his assistants has been in strict compliance with the law, It wag rumored that Mr. Newburger intended to take steps through the Corporation Counsel's office to have the Mcenses of the Bijou and Park Theatres revoked. | Acting Chief Magtstrate Murphy an- nounces that he will lssue warrants for the arrest of the persons concerned in showing the filma whenever applica- ton is made, an he considers each e: hibition a separate offense. The raid at the Bijou last night oc- curred after five hundred persons had bought tickets, ‘The manager of the production, Lester Smith, announced that money paid for tickets would be refunded, but when the patrons got to box office somebody had eloped with the money. A crowd chased Smith through the theatre and he escaped through @ rear entrance, At the conclusion of the hearing be- fore Justice Gavegan to-day Attorney Samuel 8. Rubenstein, who in behalf of Solomon Heol tere Oriental Restaurant against the owners of the “Inside of the White Slave Traffic’ for $200,000 damages for Mbel, announced that he was drawing up papers for five more libela suits, each for $100,000, in behalf of Hechter. Two of the five new suits, Rubenstein fata, would be filed against Fra: Mc+ Kee and William Harrie, thes trical managers, and one against Leo C. Tel- ler, aleo a theatrical manager, Ir the suits already on file Hechter and his wife alleged that some of the acenea shown in the film were taken in front of Heohter'e restaurant, which ts described on the film as @ depot for | Hechter ts seated in the window of th restaurant, ——__- 20,000 MORE ADDED - TO UNEMPLOYED ARMY DOPDAOODOGIDSOOSH.HS SG 3 Erie Road Admits It Has Discharged a. 6,000.‘enin Thirty He Days. ° =F The army of the unemployed ta greater in New York City to-day than hae ever been in the Christm son in the history of the city. proof of this can be found in the ords of charitable organizations whose | duty it 1s to feed and house those with no means of support, and in the statements by railroads to the effect, that more men have recently been jaid| off than ever before at this time or at any other time in the year. | An offict tement given out to-day | by the Erle Railroad explaine that in| the course of the last thirty daya it has had to lay off 6,000 employees in its shops, maintenance of way and other| departments, on account of the closing | town of certain mitle and factories Various points and t consequent d& in the tonnage to be carried. “The rehabilitation of these fore xaid an oMcial of the railroad to-day, will depend upon the resumption of anufacturing. I have never known such depresning conditions in the hie- tory of the railroed,” Other railroads, although no oficial statement has been made public, admit that there has been @ noticeable reduc- tion In the force of employees. Twenty | thousand is not an excessive estimate cf the number of unemployed men which th roads ited. upon the city, b thene men, as soon aa they lose their Jobs come to ‘ew York. Thies number has been fur- ther swollen by the refusal of other ‘businesses to take on their usual otaft of employees during the Christmas e88.80m. j 4 + Wife of Rich Amateur Violinist | Here Who Seeks Nevada Divorce, CODCOD THD PCTCCCSODSOGOSDTSSEDO being daughter of Dr. Frank N. Pa temmon of that city. Karly tn I#it the | couple separated and Mrs, Dale eued | for separation, alleging cruelty, It was testified defore Referee J, M. Mayer jthat Dale put toads in his wife's hed; | |that he tied under the bed tin cana, | | which he rattled by means of a string; | | that he had the family cat served firat jat meals, and that when she was auffor- | ing from ptomaine poleoning he brought an orchestra home and kept gt playing HERE, SEEKS DIVORCE INTHE REND COURTS = In Former Action She Told of |* Republican tn 1912. He wan defeated. } Ss Toads in Bed and Rattling {COACH COMPANY RAISES PAY. Cans Under It. “awe MRS. DALE, “TORTURED” | ‘The Fifth Avenue Coach Company, | | through President Richard W. Monde, lannounced to-day that a Christinas pres- | RENO, Nev,, Dec. %—Mre. Alitan|ent of increased wages would be given Patterson Dale has begun a euit for|to the drivers and conductors of the Givorce from Francis Colgate Dale, an|Onibuses, The new achedules will be amateur violinist of New York, who in.|DUt into effect as soon after Jan, 1 as herited from his father, Chalmers Dale, [PU |, now recetve 22 conte @ Stock Exchange broker, « trust estate! gn hour will receive A cente through yielding $%,000 @ year. Non-support t9| their eecond year of service and % Alleged in the complaint. Dale, who af-|thoreafter, while drivers now getting rived here two days ago, accepted per-| 27 1-2 cents an hour will receive 30 centa sonal service in the sult and left to-|an hour in their third year, % in thelr |in the windows of re. Fiorence Bat- ninth street, Flatbush, but behind the | strugels. fit in hie quarters and died, When hie MOTHER STRICKEN BY THIRD SUDDEN. © DEATH MAYER Husband Falls Dead, Daughter Plunges Down Shaft and Now Son Shoots Self. There are Christmas wreaths hangidg tered; home, No. 1 East Twenty wreaths the curtains are drawn. To the Battersby home Christmas has brought another death, the ¢iird in less thea three years, For Mrs. Battersby fife hae been & First her husband, Charis Rattershy, Aestetant Foreman of the Engine Company which ie now No. 354 nd located in mh Bay, became wife opened the door of thelr hene, then at No, 40 Bast Twenty-eighth street, Flatbush, expecting to admit her hushand for supper, comrades brought in hie body. Irving, Mre, Batterady's eldest 60, now only twenty-three years ald, cou- forted his mother and undertook 110 support of the family. He got a j9> with the B, R. T., but hie wages eearc:i7 avificed to keep the family going, and in February, 1912, Charlotte, then @iai- teen yeara old, declared that ehe weubl go to work. A girl friend recommen tet her to the Lenlle-Judge Company, at Yo. 2% Fifth avenue, and on the morning of Feb, 21 the girl and her mother went ther: ‘They took an wator and at the eleventh floor Mra, Battersby alighted. Bhe thought her daughter was right behind her and turned to apeak. Then ahe waw the girl, who had stepped froin backward through ‘ne girl struck 100 feet below, She wae killed Instantly, Mra, Hattereby hardly survives tne shock, but she had Irving, Clarence and another daughter, to live for, in@ e took up the burden. \\ ttm t work the finances of thy ite tle family were easier, and Inet 1. 21 they were excitedly discussing prev s tions for Christmas, Then Clarence went for a walk. He returned about 0 o'clock, joined in the general conversa- tion wh h the others were having in the dining room, and then, saying good night, to hia bedroom. Presently the family heard the peport of a revolver shot. Irving ren to his brother's roam. ‘The boy had fir-4 a Dullet into his right temple. Hie family aid they knew of no love affair, bit boy friend said Clarence had confied night for San Franciaco. fourth and si thereafter. They now re- ‘The Dales were married Jan. 3, 1900, | ceive 9 in their second year, and thie at the Hotel Astor, New York, the bride | will be continued. iil il | aT i Be ii Travels AVE you heard the Christmas be! telephone bells. And it’s Santa C the bright, cheery messages of C rapidly by telephone. ing “Merry Christmas” would mean m who may have less. for yourself and others — Santa Claus by Telephone All through the holiday season friends widely separated and perhaps almost forgotten will hear “Merry Christmas” ringing out over the telephone. Laughter, kindliness and good cheer will go speed- ing here, there and everywhere, for Santa Claus travels He uses the almost limitless roadway over which the Christmas spirit can travel. Possibly you know someone to whom the greet- you would like to share your happiness with those Then why not pay them a visit by telephone? Make it a happier, brighter Christmas Just Telephone ‘‘Merry Christmas!’ NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO. how he had quarreled with his sweet. heart, girl named Rose, who lives in [the Bronx, That was all the bey knew, lis? They are laus delivering hristmas time. uch, Possibly