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Show DECLARED MSS. THEODORE P. SHOWS HAS EROUCHT SUIT FOR SEPARATE MAINTENANCE - PAR18. Jury Announcement was made Sunday thai Mrs. Theodora P. Shonte. wife of the oresldsnt of the In-terborough In-terborough Rapid Transit company of New Tork. has begun an action for separation sep-aration from her husband. Ke details are (riven, but It Is stated that the proceeding Is not a petftion for shaolute divorce, but merely for separate maintenance and freedom from marital obligations. - w Blnce arriving in Parts Mrs flhonte has remained In slrlet seclusion at th- home of her daoshter. No. JS Avenue Herche, AH callers have been Informed that I he wife of the Nw York tract Inn mama la was "U1 and can see no one." GOTHAM LAWYER REFUSES TO AFFIRM OB DENT NEW TORK. Jolv J f. O. Archibald., the lawyer who made the ennnunc.ment in Paris that he has been retained hv Mrs Theodore P. Bhonta In her suit for seoaretlen from her huhand. haa for eev-eral eev-eral years represented In the French raoltai many firms of New York lawyers, among them Lev.ntrlt. Cook Nathan, who are Mrs. Shontee eitorneys In thla city "1 shall neither affirm or denv the report re-port from Pane that Mrs. Bhonta haa had served on her hueband papers In a separation suit " Mr. Took said. It Is a standing rule nvr to give snv Information concerning litigation planned or pending In thla office." Ever since Mrs. Bhonta reached Paris shout six weeks ago reports of her Intended In-tended suit agaln.t her husband hava been thinly veiled In rhl dlaoatchea sent to this country With her two daushtera. In the home of the rnicheae De Chaulnea. she has refund to see vls-!. vls-!. Friends at the duclieoa - see sua surprised at Mr. Archibald s annuunca-ruent. annuunca-ruent. Ambition Not Bealixad. One report that earned wide credit to-nlsht to-nlsht Is that Mra. Hhonte la worried no onic b..-a,i.. "f hr d'-m- .rrlr. tfut bctwi In one direction her ambition ambi-tion for herself and hr daughter haa not shown any Huns of bains realised. It haa Ion bn knon amona her friends that Mrs. fihonte la moat de-siroua de-siroua of enterlnir that intareatln but rather atranaa aotiaty In Paris known aa tha American oolonv. 8ha and her dauah-tera dauah-tera have been entertained tor Amerii-ana tn Paris, but never bv tha Inner French rirclea. It haa been an ooep ae. ret In the Frnch t-apttal that Mra" hhonia credtta heraelf with havlna mad-v the match between her eldat dauahtef 01 tha Due Te t'hatilnea and that her present pres-ent svinl annlratlona for both her dauah-trs dauah-trs hava lmaLbceu opooaed by har husband hus-band . . Americans In ' Paris who have been rloaear to .Mrs Bhrns and her dauahtera have lone known that aerious differ-encea differ-encea exleted between the parenla It la known that borti the ducheaa n1 her vounaer aiater have done all In their power to dlaanade their mother from carrying car-rying out her ortalnal ourn'-ae. It ta he-Hevad he-Hevad now that prlvacr will mark whatever what-ever proceed in that are begun. Shonta Is Willing. That Mr Khonts la not averae to auch an arranment la known to hla Intimate frlenda. Hia dlnauat at all thlnaa European. Eu-ropean. Intenalfled hv his eldr dauah-ter dauah-ter a marrlaae and hta dla nverv that th rHicheaa t t.aulnaa waa raptdlv he-f-nmlna mre French than even French women, eipreaead Itaelf, ao h'a frlenda dee-1 are. In a faahlon tnat left Mra. flhonta a-fth a leaa aenerotta allomanc of monav than ahe wished. Th fact that Mra Bhonta haa spent atmoat thirty months out of th laat threa Taara on the continent and tn that ttme has had with her not onlv tha ducheaa. but alao her jyinirgi laugh tjr. tween ber and Mr. Hhonta Th n rat hint the public had that Theodnra'a marriage had cmieed a hreach between Mr. and Mra. Hhonta cam In two paragrapha In a aorietv paper pub-llahed pub-llahed on auceaalva dava. Tha first asserted as-serted that Mr. and Mrs Phonts. with their daughter Marguerite, would atari for Paiia to spend tha summer with the Ducheaa He Chaulnea The second paragraph para-graph made a similar statement with Mr .Shonts'a name omitted This aacond announcement appeared Aortl 2S, a month after the wadding. That night the Due Da Thaulnea died of heart disease dis-ease In the arms of hla bride In their l Paris bouse. Two dava later It waa an-i an-i pounced that Mr and- Mra. fthonta and I Marguerite would aafl for Parla next I day. A BappnaW Bait. Mr. Hhonta returned to New York .Tun 1 1, bringing Marguerite with htm. Mra Bhonta waa at ill abroad whan tha cables carried an aatoundlng atorv of a suit for $? "0,000 damages which Frederick HI pen. New Yorlt manager of Kentucltr dia-tllletV dia-tllletV had brought against Mr Shonts for ailegad alienation of hla wife a affections af-fections Mr. ShoHta scoffed at the ehanra and -Instated It waa a caaa of mistaken Identity. Iden-tity. In hie answering affidavit ha did not refer to hla double, ht an tared only a general denial. Although th case waa aet for November It never waa beard af again... . Mr. Bhonta . married Mia Harriet Amelia Drake. daughter nf Vvernr Drake of Iowa, la lal Hi father. Dr Henry D. Bhonta. la a paweUel na phvaJ-claa. phvaJ-claa. Children 1V, motordrosna raee t novow. |