RICH BUT WRETCHED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 7

RICH BUT WRETCHED.

WIFE ASKS FOR SEPARATION-

HUSBAND HAS 1 TOO MUCH

MONEY

The complaint ,of Mrs Louis: A. Bryan, wife of a well-known American millionaire, is that lie lias too much money. Slie applied the other day for a separation from her husband, and gave several instances of her unhappiness in having wealth lavished upon her. Mrs Bryan, aged twenty-seven, declared that money was the cause of their domestic troubles. “If Mr Bryan had been a poor man I believe w© eouldi have lived together. I had been a poor bookkeeper before I became liis first wife’s companion, and he had always known the power of wealth. After he married me he became overbearing. I was his doll. He wanted to choose my clothes for me and parade me before his friends. I could not endure it, so I left him.”

Mrs Bryan says that once she lost £SOO worth of gems in a train. Instead of being angry, Mr Bryan stopped at the nearest town and purchased £2,000 worth of fresh jewellery to- replace, the lost gems, and continued the journey as though nothing had happened. Mr Bryan, who is fifty-seven years of age, does not oppose the application, though he professes undying devotion to the young wife who lias deserted him.

“I can only say,’’ he testified, “that I did the utmost to hold the love of Mrs Bryan. When I married her nearly a year ago I gave her £BOOO a year to spend as she chose. Sixteen motorcars were at her disposal. I intend to indulge in no recriminations, and shall always provide for her.”