Show A SENSATIONAL DIVORCE CASE Interest Reawakened in it by the Husband itealhi his Two Children ST Louis Jan 1Interest in the sensational sensa-tional divorce suit of Coats vs Coats was renewed today when Mrs E H Coats received re-ceived a letter from Dr Coates her former husband announcing that he had left for I parts unknown taking with him their two children Emma aged seven and Mamie aged five years When Mrs Coats was granted a divorce it was stipulated that the father should have the children with him at certain intervals Dr Coats came to St Louis from Montgomery Mo shortly before Christmas and sent for his two children This morning the mother received re-ceived a letter from Coats stating that he and his children were hundreds of miles away and that she would not see them again for four and a halt years Mrs Coats is prostrated with grief Dr Coats shot and killed Dr Keith on Thirteenth and Pine street a couple of years ago He claimed that the shooting was provoked by Keiths attention to his I wife Keith was a man nearly seventy years of age and Coats assertions were not credited by the friends and acquaintances acquaint-ances of the old doctor and Mrs Coats Coats was put in jai on the charge of mur devin the first degree Wnen the trial cameup the defense was insanity The plea w < s sustained by the jury snd Coats was acquitted but sent to the insane asy in the lum three lum After remaining asylum I months he was set free on the ground that he was thoroughly restored |