FOUND "MIS AFFINITY"

Evening Star, Issue 15342, 17 November 1913, Page 7

FOUND "MIS AFFINITY"

DIVORCE SOUOTTT f)F j'liKTiT rom-:i<;Ni-;ii. Whilst Imvolling with his wife and. children in Europe, Aubrev Lawlon, an Ainc rican author. fell in W,' wiih ;i, prettv j:irl. and trouble followed. On the votnvi, of the family to America nit net ion for divorce, was hcaiin in the Supreme, Couit '•if the Dintrict. ~.)f Oilunibia. Washington, by Mrs Ktboi V. Lnnfitcm ~11 tin- ground that licr husband, while, ?]:,> was- trn.vrjlinj fvom Kurope. her to allow liini to jiiiiko a Tselgi,in jo'rl his "alli'iiily.'' Mrs Lai.t-ton asked the Court t 0 i f -.< up '•,„ rcbtraininjr her husband from leaving America, and joining his "affinity" abroad until lip had provided for her awl the two children. In mippoit, of her .application<di.: produced two leU-re, writi.cn by her bus-' band, one of which read : Little. One,—Your previous letter in in my wiles possession. 1 inlinitdv re-ret not to be able to invito, you to Paris, darling. You tdl me you'have not linn like my wife, but remember I never eaw you in any other drew, but the cue you are \voaiive_', yet I alwsivs ioimd you clinrmin<r. About' the first 'week of October I will deposit a sum to vour credit in one of the large Brussels stores. After that you will receive -from-1110 every week a.i.other remittance. "VVlieii yo'l.l write, to me do .not simi vour leitci "Margot la 8e11e.." It. i R tt'uc vou are pretty, but it isn't sn nice to pee it said by you about yourself In the second letter Lanslon taid : I'm iiot- a iefenncr. darling. Life, is too short, is it not? But I do hope that in a, gentle life, freed, from rvants and angry thoughts, you will fortrct nil ugly thing? and trink but of niec"oncK. According to the 'Daily Mail' Mi* Lftiv fiton state.-, that her husband is the ownci of a trust estate of £20,000, in odidtic* to an income of £l2O.