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Show IS. LAFE PENCE GRANTED DIVORCE May Sue Mrs. Lillian B. Duke for Alienation of Husband's Affections. By International News Service. NEW YORK, April 8. Uifuyetto r. Pence, former congressman from Colorado, Colo-rado, and Mrs. Kathryn Sopor Pence were divorced here today. Mrs. Jlll!an K. Duke was named In tho suit. Mrs. Duke was divorced In 1S93 by William 15. Mc-Crcedy, Mc-Crcedy, a Harlem coffee broker, and in 1D0G by James B. Dulco, head of the tobacco to-bacco trust. She lived with Duko less than a year, and ho Is roportod to have given her 5500,000 when they separated. Mrs. Pence will begin suit for $150,000 against Mrs. Duke, charging alienation of Pence's affections, us soon as her decree de-cree is made final. Mrs. Pence was Kathryn Soper of Georgetown. Ky.. one of the two beautiful daughters of Colonel Robert Soper. She Inherited a fortune from hor father. In 1888 she married Pence, then a member of tho Colorado legislature, Tie later became be-came district attorney df Denver, and was elected to congress on tho Populist ticket. He Is secretary of the National League of Democratic clubs. |