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Show MKS. I.KK WANTS TO QLIT. A Chinaman's Wife Hues Him For a Divorce. Di-vorce. New Haven, Conn., May 10. Yan l'hou Lee, an educated Chinaman, has beon mado defendant in a suit for divorce di-vorce by his American wife. The papers pa-pers were filed in the supreme court today to-day by Mrs. Lee's attorney. The defendant de-fendant is charged with infidelity. Mrs. Leo was prior to her marriage Miss Elizabeth Maude Jerome, (laughter (laugh-ter of Mrs. E. Gilbert Jciome of this city, and heiress to $05,000. Sho married mar-ried Lett July 6, 1887, about a week after he had graduated from Yale university. uni-versity. The wedding was a great affair, and the Rev.Dr.Twitcholl of the Asylum street Congregational chui'eh, Hartford, performed the ceremony. Tho honeymoon honey-moon Mas spent at Na'rragauset Pier, and, on returning to this city, Mr. and Mrs. Leo began living at the home of tho bride's mother. Lee wrote for newspapers and magazines, and also brought out the book called "Child-lifo in Cliiua" and "Why I Becunio a Christian." Leo left New Haven early in the summer of 1881) aud went to San-Francisco, San-Francisco, where ho was employed iu a bauk. He returned east several mouths ago and is now in New York, whero ho is engagod in tho publication of an English-Chiueso Sunday school Journal. , Loo has been a conspicuous figure in New Haven society since 1878, when he entered the Hopkius grammar school to prepare himself for Yale. Ho entered the university with the class of 1884 and soon gained distinction by high scholarship scholar-ship and his ability as a writer. When tho Chinese students were ordered back to China ho returned. He had been a favorite among tho peoplo of several churches, aud through the promise ot prominent women members to assist him incompleting hie educa. tion, lie ran away from China and worked his way around Cape Horn back to this country in a sailing vessel. When ordored "back to China, Leo was engaged to Miss Lenuie Foster, but when ho returned ho found her about to become tho wifo of Ex-Representative Hammer of Branford. The engagement en-gagement to Miss Jerome was announced, an-nounced, and about the same time Lee declared himself a Christian, cut off his queue and became a member of the college church. Siuco graduating he has frequently addressed the Yale Y. M. C. A. an.falso lectured in churches throughout New England. Mrs. Lee, in her complaint, asks for the custody of two children, one a girl .3 years old und tho other a boy 5 months old. Mrs. Lee's mother, Mrs. Serome, told a reporter last eveuing that Lee admitted admit-ted that he has led a double life ever since coming to New Haven and that he had kept two households ever since ho was married. |