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Show President Toljacco Trust Seeks Divorce, Naming Club Man Go-Respondent. TROUBLE STARTS WHEN HUSBAND IS ABROAD Millionaire Heard Ugly Rumors and Cabled Officers to Learn Truth. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Another member mem-ber of tho well-known Duke family is having his sharo of matrimonial troubles. Only a fow months ago Brodlo L. Duko and his wife wero in the limelight. This tlmo It is James Buchanan Duke, tho millionaire mil-lionaire president of the tobacco trust, and worth between JoO.OOO.OOO andTO.OCO.WO. His dreams of marital happiness havo been rudely shattered in less than a jcar. Led Divorcee to Altnr. It was last November that he led to the altar Mrs. McCrcedy. a handsome blonde with large blue eyes. She was tho divorced di-vorced wife of William E. McCrcedy. a welf-known clubman and a wealthy coffee broker? The proceedings abounded in much spicy testimony, and the , case tno fair defendant must now fight promises prom-ises to bo equally as sensational. Names Co-Respondent. Mr. Duko alleges that his wife has been unfaithful to her nnarrlUKO vows and names as co-respondent Capt. Frank 1. Huntoon, a bachelor about o0 cars 01 ace who Is well known from one- end of Broadway to the other as a good fellow, anrst-nighter" at the theaters and a member of tho famous Old Guard rtgi mcnt- . , , Wifo Will Figlit Case. ' Huntoon Is preserving silence. Mrs nuke nd her f lends declare the charges ?" her "husband are u"fou"hiC'?(lencason,ro Dukob,has taken himself to his coun try Kcof WaS?. is reV "i Pllcants for Information to the complaint nTho0,UflpersnbehglnCK- reciting that tho plSitlff was married to the defendant nt kSns eWne nat S D a" been unfaithful to her marriage ?ows with one Frank T. Huntoon. Gives Specific Dates. Qnorino dates amounting to six or more, ainsetVui the complaint, which alleges that the acts complained of wero com- .?o?nnatloned specially In tho com-P,ThouULconflng com-P,ThouULconflng so nulckly on the heels nf tho suduen and romantic marriage of Tiiike and 1 h is wife is a great surprise. When the couple were married there were nnt h-ilf a dozen friends of Mr. Duke that knew he was about to end his long years of bachelorhood. Marriage Was Homantic. Secretly almost Mr. Duko and his scc-rcmrv scc-rcmrv left Somervlllo. N. J., on tho day nrlor to the marriage, and went to the Hotel Walton. In Philadelphia. Mrs Mc-fflv Mc-fflv is alio was then, went to tho gcllevuVstratford. in Philadelphia t and 11 v rinv wont to tho homo of her fv 1 dozen of their friends attending the Ram N Fletcher! Her mother still lives ,nAfte?dlhc wedding Mr. and Mm. Duke ii m Furono on tho Bn tic and wero 3f nli nntllTcbnmrv of this year. Then S?3 -ottkS clSm To ilve at 11 West Sixty-eighth Sixty-eighth street Duke Went to Europe. Then Mr. Duke wont to Europo on busl-neis busl-neis affair. While he was abroad. It Is Pieced? certain Information reached him by cable Involving tho names of Jluntoon nmi ir Duko It was snld that the counlo wero seen at the races together, fhnt they went automoblllng and were mciUcr at fashionablo restaurants. Private Pri-vate detectives wero called In by Duko M?rouKh his lnwycrs In this city. Tho cv -Gathered covers tho alleged meet-Sin meet-Sin the Duko house, which a servant describes and mooting at a country place on Long Island. Both Deny Charges. -Friends of Mrs. Duke deny that she has wn milltv of any acts such as her husband hus-band co inplhliu Tof. and say that within the ten lays allowed after the sen; ng of a summons and complaint In a divorce Suit she will appear by an attorney and flRFrttofMr. Huntoon a0o assert that he denies the charges of Intimacy wl h Mrs Duke. ll,at ho wU1 atd hor fighting her husband's action. Same Charges Before. In her llrst dlvorco aisp Mrs. Duke, then Mrs. McCrcedy. was also accused of unfaithfulness. It Is alleged thn there werp letters found by McCrcedy addressed ad-dressed bv a prominent produco exchange, man to Mrs. McCrcedy. calling her "My lear wife." and asking "for another meeting'' meet-ing'' There was also a story of meetings by signals through blinds, and charts that tho husband was unfaithful. Tho matter ended by the withdrawal of the case, from tho courts on behalf of Mrs. McCrcedy and the signing of a decree of Tudcc ! Daly In Hie old Court of Common Pleas In favor of tho husband, who brought counter charges. Wife Has a Fortune. Mrs. McCrcedy, by tho general settlement settle-ment In tho case, got the home on West Sixty-eighth street. Before his marriago to her Mr. Duke used to stop at tho Hoffman Hoff-man House, but after his marriage ho changed his Now York directory address to tho McCrcedy house. This Is a beautiful beau-tiful flve-atory graystono mansion, worth $7,ooa Tho fortuno of Mrs. Duke, however, Is nothing compared to that of her husband. His country home at Somervlllc, N. J- Is one of tho finest ln tho United States. Upon few places has so much caro and money been spent as on the Duke estate, which Is about two miles from Somcrville. Tho estate has 2000 acres of land in It, and villages and ancient landmarks havo been removed to make It ono of tho finest estates In America. Of all this land a great park has been mado by tho finest landscape gardeners of the world. An ar-tlllclal ar-tlllclal lako that cost 51,000.000 was built ln ono corner of the great property. Duke Estate Is Grand. Threo hundred men, with sixty teams, worked for three years to Improve tho estate. Tho mansion on the property cost $1,500,000. Two millions more went into tho tlttlngs The palntlngo ln the liouso are worth $1,000,000. Walks and drives that lead ono through a wealth of landscape rivaling tho tropics wero laid out, and thoro was for years such a lavish outpouring out-pouring of wealth on tho property thnt It Is now a great show place, and worthy to bo tho homo of any American millionaire. million-aire. It Is ln this homo mostly that James B. Duko has lived of lato years. Mr. Duko Is about 60 years old His wlfo Is about 35. |