Word: ex-husband
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...wish of his old leader, Colonel Pillenger, by marrying Lucy Pillenger, his daughter. Lusy upsets this arrangement by a runaway marriage with a young curate, and the captain hurries off to find Lady Huntworth, who was forced to leave this vicarage when her identity was revealed by her worthless ex-husband...
...estimating her testimony it must be taken into account that she is one of several legatees under her ex-husband's will?the Daughertys are among the others?and she is at present contesting for a larger share in the division of the estate. Her lawyer for a time was one of the arch-political-enemies of Attorney General Daugherty. It was reported that she attempted indirectly to sell her story to the press? but without success...
...witness stand her principal testimony was in regard to things that her ex-husband had told her. Mr. Howland, attorney for Mr. Daugherty, objected that this was hearsay testimony and not admissable. Senator Wheeler said that he thought quotations from a dead man should be allowed as evidence...
Thereupon Miss Stinson went on to relate that her ex-husband had told her of having received with the Attorney General gifts of stock and cash for permitting interstate transportation of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films, etc. She said, when he went to Washington, his property was worth $150,000 to $175,000 and that he denied his estate was worth $250,000. He had had no business in the meantime, but she insisted that he had steadily improved his fortune, although he was an unsuccessful stock speculator, after going to Washington...