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Show CANDLE IN HIS NIGHTIE. Baseball Player Claims Cruel Treatment Treat-ment at Hands of "Wife. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 2. -Percy Held, the Adonis of the baseball diamond, was granted a divorce becauso wlfcy set firo to tho tails of his night robo. By tho light of the burning robe-do-nult sho chased him through tho stroot In the dead of nitrht with n butcher knife, and tho court aareed with him that this was cruel. Held told Judtro Allen that one night he wont home a Jlttlo Into and crawled meekly Into bed, thinking himself safo, but the lady of tho house sat up and called him to ordr. Ho was unablo to cbtnblish a proper defense, and with a blazo of wratli und a candle she touched off hla slumber robo. With a whoop like a Comancho he jumped to the middle of the fioor and down the. stairs to tho stroot four slops at a time. Late comers saw tho astonishing spectacle spec-tacle of a young athleto with firo crawling crawl-ing up his back hitting the high places Willi his bare foot, and close behind him a Hcantily clad woman puffing and brandishing brand-ishing a largo knife. |