VICTIMS OF FALSE GOSSIP.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 55, 21 February 1913, Page 2

VICTIMS OF FALSE GOSSIP.

Mr Henry C._ Edey, a retired liroktf and banker ol New who u;is <r«|. ited a' few months ago with a p!;in«{ exchanging wives with his best, iriend. shot his wife at his country estate a! Bellport, Long Island, on .Jaimnrv i and immediately afterwards sent a'bl let through his own brain. The shot awoke the 12-year-old daughter <i| tin couple, who rushed into her parents' bedroom to liml them both dead This is the last chapter in a traged;! ol gossip which appeared in tin' <lailj newspapers throughout the autumn, hot which was repeatedly and streniimisb denied by ail the parties coiici-iiml' Briefly, it was to the effect that t!« broker paid bis friend, with whose wife lie was infatuated, to eluM with his own wife in order that !» might marry his friend's wife. The story gained currency tlirough statements made by his friend, tin- proprietor of a liverv stable, who disajpea red from Bellport siinultaneiiuJv with the departure of .Mrs Edey for Texas, hut returned home a few'daji later and squandered money right and leit. According to the gossips, the ho men arranged to effect the exchanged wives through the medium of a doublt divorce, followed by a double marriajto.. Both Mr and Mrs Edey at once denied! this. Mrs Edey was the. daughter of t fisherman and was an unusually beautiful woman. Her marriage with a wealthy hanker after his divorce from a woman of his own station in life providtxl societv with a much-discussed .sensation. She returned not long a|j» with her husband to Heliport, where tl# couple lived in apparent amity.