Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — AN ARMY SCANDAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AN ARMY SCANDAL.

Captain Strong and Lady Hope Fignra in a Seasatioa. May Yohe, the American actress, has at last got rid of her husband, though, paradoxically, the latter has by no means been relieved of her. As the companion of Putnam Bradlee Strong, son of the late ex-Mayor of New York, she has sailed to join the lotus eaters in Japan, there to live a life of pleasure, free from the censure and the social ostracism which such a life would invite here. One life she has already ruined, that of her legal husband, Lord Hope. Another life she seems to be leading along the same pathway, that of Putnam Bradlee Strong. His infatuation for her was such that he resigned from the army in order to be in her society and only consideration for him on account of his honorable father prevented his being epurtmartialed. While under orders to sail for the Philippines he telegraphed from San Francisco his resignation as captain to the Secretary of War. Mr. Root would have refused to accept it and would have ordered a court-martial were it not that the President interposed and for the sake of the father saved the son from the consequence of his rashness and fatuity. The couple were ostracised in San Francisco. The leading hotels and res-

taurants closed their doors in their faces and they were constrained to patronize the cheaper restaurants, and even these were not overpleased with the attention. Finally the pair under assumed names left for Japan. While the wife of Lord Hope by thus accompanying Strong has abandoned her legal husband the latter, strangely, can take no action to divorce her. The head of the family is his brother, the Duke of Newcastle. He holds the family purse strings and on him Is dependent Lord Hope. But the duke is opposed to divorce in any form. And thus May Yohe legally bears the title of Lady Hope and one day, despite her disgrace, may become a duchess of Newcastle, for her abandoned husband' is the legal successor of the present childless duke. In case Lord Hope should succeed to the dukedom within the next few years it is doubtful .if the courts would issue him a decree of divorce. According to numerous precedents they would hold that he had waited too long.

CAPT. STRONG AND LADY HOPE.