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- Humphrey's Deed of Trust
Filed to Secure Loan of $5,700 From Leesburg Bank.
Dr. Frank M. Humphrey and his wife, Mrs. Lillian Talbott Humphrey, this morning filed for record at the Clerk's Office a deed of trust given to Nathaniel T. Wachter, of near Hansonville, for the benefit of the Loudoun National Bank, of Leesburg, Va. The trust includes the personal property of Dr. and Mrs. Humphrey, of all descriptions, and also Mrs. Humphrey's life estate in the farm, or its converted proceeds.
The deed of trust is made to secure a loan of $5.700 made by the Loudoun National Bank, in order that Dr. and Mrs. Humphrey could make settlement with their creditors, by an agreement and secure their discharge from bankruptcy.
Dr. Humphrey, it will be remembered, some time ago filed a bill asking for a divorce from his wife. The following day he withdrew the bill. It was intimated at that time that his wife would probably file a bill for divorce, but to date she has refrained from doing so. Friends are trying to effect a reconciliation.
The News, Frederick, Maryland. Saturday, 12 September 1914.
LKH note:
They divorced on 2 Jan 1922.
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- Dr. Humphrey Asks Divorce From Wife
Suit Is Culmination of Stormy Married Life.
He Wants Custody of Son
In Bill Husband Charge Cruelty, Harshness and Brutality – Treated as Pensioner, He Claims, and Forced to Prepare Own Meals.
Dr. Frank M. Humphrey, a native of near Berryville, Va., who located in Frederick county some years ago, upon a fine farm near Hansonville, where he proposed to breed find coach horses, today filed a bill in court, asking for a divorce from his wife, and the custody of their 27-month-old son.
Mrs. Humphrey was Miss Lillian R. Talbott, of Charles Town, W.Va., granddaughter of a well known banker of that place, and she is also related to a number of well known Frederick county families.
Following their marriage Dr. Humphrey and wife came to Frederick county and located upon a fine large farm, which had been left to Mrs. Humphrey, in trust. Many improvements were made to the farm, and it became one of the finest of the country estates in Frederick county, and is valued at about $30,000. For a time all went well, and then financial difficulties beset the couple. Finally conditions became such both applied for the benefit of bankruptcy law, and later by an agreement with their creditors a partial settlement was made and their applications on bankruptcy withdrawn.
For some weeks past, rumors have been afloat that the two had almost reached the breaking point, and that divorce proceedings were imminent, but the filing of the bill for divorce by Dr. Humphrey came as a great surprise here today.
Beginning Of The End.
Several days ago, Mrs. Humphrey decided to go tot eh Berryville Horse Show, and left her child with a friend in this city. Dr. Humphrey learning the child was here, came to Frederick, and demanded it and took it to his father’s home in Virginia. Mrs. Humphrey was telephoned and with a lawyer went to the Humphrey home, and Mrs. Humphrey claims, that once there a most stormy scene arose and the result was that her father-in-law shook her and pushed her against the porch. The lawyer then threatened the elder Humphrey with arrest for assault if the child were not produced, according to Mrs. Humphrey, and the child was returned.
Both Want Child
Yesterday Mrs. Humphrey was brought to Frederick in an automobile by Dr. Humphrey and left at the home of a distant relative in this city. Mrs. Humphrey has announced her intention of staying there, and it was following this affair that Dr. Humphrey determined to apply for a divorce. It is understood that prior to this time Dr. Humphrey was willing that his wife make the application for divorce, although the custody of the child was a point on which the young couple could not agree.
Dr. Humphrey in his bill for divorce alleges: “That he and Lillian R. Talbot were married in Washington July 15, 1811 by Rev. Alfriend, an Episcopal minister. That shortly after their marriage they came to Frederick county to reside and have resided here until Monday, August 21, 1914.” Other allegations are:
“Ever since your orator married Lillian R. Humphrey she has treated the plaintiff with great cruelty, harshness and brutality, both in word and deed. Strange as it may seem that a little woman, such as she is in physical stature, it is nevertheless true, that the entire conduct of said defendant toward the plaintiff, nearly the whole of their married life, has been such as to make the daily life and routine of your orator wretched and miserable in the extreme.
Treated as Pensioner.
“Almost from the very beginning, your orator has been reminded of the fact by the defendant, that he was a mere mendicant, a pensioner as it were, upon the bounty of her inheritance and that the food he put into his mouth came from her people, and these reminders have been so frequently made and in such a manner and way that these unkind, bitter and unwifely words have humiliated your orator almost beyond endurance.”
He also alleges that his wife has cursed him and that she has done this in presence of others and he repeats in his bill some of the epithets she has burled at him.
He also alleges that on July 17 his wife attempted his life, by grabbing a knife off the dining room table and would have stabbed him, had a person not interfered and he alleges that the person who interfered was cut.
Mr. Humphrey also recites that for some moths he has been compelled to prepare his own meals, makes his own bed and does the mending of his own clothes.
During all their married life, and notwithstanding the abuse and bickerings of his wife, Dr. Humphrey alleges that he has never given his wife an unkind word but that he “has taken her daily abuse of cursings without a murmur.”
He states that the only reason he can ascribe for his wife’s conduct is that he could not, at all times, give to her many and various demands for money, the response she desired. He also alleges that on August 31 his wife compelled him to drive her in an automobile to Frederick, and leave her at the home of a friend on West Third street, in Frederick, and that there she informed him that she had left him, and that she would live with him no longer.
Dr. Humphrey states one son was born of the marriage, Frank Talbott Humphrey, and he asks the custody of this child. He alleges that the mother has neglected the child and had not treated him as a mother should, and that she is not the proper person to read the child.
H. Dorsey Etchison represents Dr. Humphrey.
The News, Frederick, Maryland. Tuesday, 1 September 1914, page 5.
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