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Show IT EVEM MILLIONS CM Bfili COIENT Mrs. Phillip Van Volkcnlmrgh Sues Aged Husband for Absolute Divorce. By Leased "Wire to The Trlbuno. NEW -YORK-, July 30. The Initial slop 'n sc-vering the romantic alliance of a $20 000.000 benedict and an $8,000,000 widow, which only a few months ago thrilled fashionable society on two continents, conti-nents, was takon today by Mrs. Phillip van volkenburgh, when she signed a complaint for an absolute divorce against her uged husband the scion or New York's oldest nnrl vrnltMnt f-itnii,- Abandonment, penuriousncss, brutality and humiliation of being pressed by mere hotel clerks for such trivial bills as $Io for a hat, are among the allegations set up by the widow of the Orogon millionaire, mil-lionaire, William Haynes Chapman, against her presont husband, in a long bill. Besides, the names of two women-one women-one of whom figures slightly in society are mentioned as attracting Van Volken-burgh's Volken-burgh's rather divided attentions, beginning begin-ning a few weeks after her marriage, iurs. Van olkenburgh was asked If tho ,Ul,er JmPutuous courtship of General Stlrlnovltch and Prince Sonic might be renewed. No More Wedding Bells. N". no, never! I will never marrv again. 1 miRht get another like. Van Volkenburgh, and have I not had misery cnoirgh? I got a thousand letters congratulating con-gratulating me for marrying an American. Ameri-can. Look how brutally he abused me. How he changed! It pains mo to mention men-tion it. continued the woman. "So many little mean traits developed almost instantly. I saw little of him after the coromony. He lived across from me In the hotel. When my sister came to visit us I could not present my husband. I md to say ho was in Newport. 1 stood his inhuman conduct six months hcrolc-nliy. hcrolc-nliy. My forbearance was exhausted when the unspeakably stingy nature "rebelled at Paying a small bill for a hat at the desk. Oh, such miserly things ho did. He made mo pay for my motor, my hotel bill, for my flowers everything! Now 1 ?,m ,(,oll(nv.ocl y h,-s detectives. Look out! There's a fellow standing in tho rain, watching for me. It is terrible to be hunted by such specters popping out of doorways wherever I move. Hu'll suffer for this. He's been u brute. He can care for other women, but not for me, and then ho shadows me! My II is without blemish he knows that. But' ho will have a great deal moro to absorb his attention when this suit comes m than he Imagines. My case ngalnst him is complete. Ho doesn't realize what I know. I won't give any names, but ni have surprises at least three big ones." |