Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1909 — SEPARATION SUIT BY ASTOR’S WIFE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEPARATION SUIT BY ASTOR’S WIFE

New York Paper Says Colonel Das Sailed For Cuba. CASE IN HANDS OF REFEREE Statement Made That Proceedings Were Btarted Some Time Ago and That the Action Was Kept Secret. She Went to the Home of Friends In New York on Her Arrival From Europe—Basis For Complaint Known Only'to Principals and Attorneys. New York, Oct. 26. —Hearst s American this morning prints a story that Mrs. John Jacob Astor has brought suit for a legal separation from her husband. According to the American, the case, which has been conducted quietly, is

now in the hands of the referee C. H. Young. The basis of the action has not been learned. Mrs. Astor returned from Europe on Oct. 15, Colonel Astor sailing on Oct. 12, three days before his wife’s arrival home, for Cuba on his yacht. Upon her arrival In New York, Mrs. Astor went to the home of her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Guineas, in Washington square west.

MRB. JOHN JACOB ASTOR.