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...sometime Russian naval officer; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: incompatibility. Sued. William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and his wife Laura; by Rev. Ulysses Grant Warren, of Corning, N. Y., for $200,000. Charge: alienation of the affections of Mr. Warren's wife, Edith, Mrs. Storey's cousin. Mrs. Warren filed suit for divorce in Minden, Nev. Declared Mr. Warren's attorneys: "No scandal is connected with the case." Resigned. James Truslow Adams, U. S. historian, author of The Adams Family, The Epic of America; from the Pulitzer Prize History Committee. Reasons: 1) residence...
...sometimes turning hundreds away. Daniel Frohman came to see us in the Westchester County Recreation centre. You know his brother Charles, the chap who went down on the Titanic got me to first come to this country way back in 1906." Then suddenly, "See that girl there. . . She's Edith Mayor, neice of Miss Edythe Wynne Mathison. We starred her in "Everyman." He also pointed out Frederic Sargent, Russell Thorndike and Miss Llewellyn...
...investigate. The marshals went to the Riley home on Rhode Island Avenue, descended to the basement. They opened the door of a windowless closet and there found something that whimpered and blinked and ate food scraps from a pan. It was the Riley's 12-year-old child. Edith, scarred and filthy. Her case, broached to horrified Washington. D. C. two months ago, was settled insofar as the law could settle it last week...
Before the District of Columbia Supreme Court Edith's father, Henry Newman Riley, a paperhanger, and his wife Elsie, the little girl's stepmother, were put on trial for "feloniously torturing, cruelly beating, abusing and otherwise maltreating" the child. Francis Riley, 15. testified that for four years his sister had been a prisoner in the black and bedless basement closet. She was beaten with sticks and shoes. After one beating, Francis told how he found some of Edith's teeth on the basement floor. So secret had the Riley's kept their closet child that their...
Rescued from the dark and taken to Gallinger Hospital, Edith was found to weigh 38 Ib. Her legs were too spindly to support her shrunken body. She stared at nurses with lifeless eyes. In six weeks, however, she learned to play with dolls and children, gained 20 Ib. In court the child heard but did not pay much attention to her parents' defense: that Edith "was given to certain vicious practices," that she had to be kept away from neighborhood children, that her stepmother was not "mentally responsible...