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Show SUES TO ANNUL I HIS MARRIAGE NEW YORK, ct. 20 Wealth I does not always bring happiness That : is about the only point of agreement bStween Nelson J. Peabody, publisher, j with offices In New York, Boston and : Chicago, and his wife Eola. Mr- Peabody has instituted suit for annulment of his marrlnge on the ground. like Rodolph Valentino, movie star, his wife v.as married to him before her California divorce became be-came final. Thursday Supreme Court Justli e Vigner granted Mrs Peabody $100 a week alimony and $750 counsel fees pending settlement of tho ease. This Is Mrs Peabody's side of the story, contained In an affidavit: "When he was a poor man I struggled togeth-r with him; I washed, cooked, and scrubbed In order to assist him When he became wealthy l shared in his prosperity Now that he Is in receipt of a fabulous Income ho Institutes an action to annul our marriage, claiming that it Is void by reason of a technicality. Then ho" seeks to starve me Into submission." BXJSB LND'S RE ISON8 Mr. Peabody denies he ever sought to avoid his dutlea as a husband and charges that while he was absent from home, suites occupied by him and his wife at various hotels served! as "a place of rendezvous." for various va-rious men whom he names Mr. Peabody says that he at first contemplated a d:orce suit, but upon reading newspaper accounts of the! Valt ntino case, decided that a suit to annul Would he his proper recourse.! lie bssed his action on the eontentlon that when the defendant became his Wife on October 6. 1910. ..he was still' the wife of James Sargent, formerly, of Chicago, because u dec ree of di-v.r.-e Kr"nted I', .lf..rn,.i that h-tember h-tember was ntll! "In tho inter-j locutory stnge." FIRST ROM N I PAULS. Mrs Peabody said she had married Sargent In Chicago In 1'.'02 when she was less than 19; thai they separated while living in Wfitttler, Cel., that she went to Chicago to get a divorce; i that Sargent suggested Instead, that he bring suit In California on the ground of desertion, and that she had agreed to avoid the eost of litigation. While the ".nllforn:a suit was pending, pend-ing, she sfl'd Peabodv bagged her to marry him. Therefore, she said, less than S monlh after the Intcrlocutorv decree, was granted, they were weil ' in BOUth Bend. Mrs Peabody asserts and her hus-l band denies that he expressed to her his love for another woman. |