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    1. [COLEGROVE] LIVED TOGETHER TWO DAYS
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    3. LIVED TOGETHER TWO DAYS ---------Colegrove Then Left His Wife,Who Saw Him No More, Until She Had Him Arrested. Russel Colegrove, a son of James B. Colegrove, President of the Washington, Westminister and Gettysburg Railway, was a prisonerin the Yorkville Police Courtyesterday charged with having abandoned his wife, Ollie T. Cole-grove. Mrs. Colegrove is abouttwenty-three years old and her husband is about thirty.They were married secretly onAug. 15, 1897, by the Rev. Mr. Blewitt of Thirty-second Street,near Ninth Avenue. Colegrove, itis charged, left home a day ortwo after the marriage and the wife did not see him again untilyesterday. Two weeks ago she heard he was in the city, and secured a warrant for his arrest.Colegrove was arrested late Saturday night at the Lehigh ValleyRailroad station as he was about to leave for Cleveland. His father was with him in courtyesterday accompanied by his counsel.George Robinson of 90 Nassau Street.The wife was represented by HermanA. E. Heydt of 27 William Street.Mrs. Colegrove told MagistrateCornell how her husband left her two days after teh marriage."He said he was employed on a Govern-ment vessel," she said "and that the vessel was ordered to Boston. Hesaid he would send for me, byt henever did so, and I heard no more ofhim until I read in the newspapers last September that he was ill in California. I wrote to him but received no answer. His father came to see me and said he was willing that his son should take me home andcare for me. I said I would not go,because he, the father, had said that the son couldn't marry me,and had warned me not to marry him,as he was a pauper. He said if Idid marry he would make my life miserable. Because of his father'sopposition, we were married secretly."In March of this year Mr. Robinsoncalled on me and tried to get me togo home and live with my husband. Iwould not agree to any such course,after being deserted for four years.I wrote Mr. Colegrove several letterslater, but he never replied."Mrs. Colegrove said she was Ollie Wyane before her Marriage. The hisband told the Magistrate that hewas sent to Boston by the Governmentand from there was ordered to Washington, and thence to California,where he was taken ill. He said thatsince then he had been to Honolulu andto the Philippines. He was ill in both places, he said. He asserted thathe was willing to take his wife with him and to provide her with a home. He said he was living with his fatherat Bath Beach.The wife's counsel wanted the husbandput under bonds to provide for the wife but Magistrate Cornell said that he would not do this. He thought thatthe woman would be looked after if shewould go to her husband's home. Colegrove was discharged.New York Times, The | New York | New York 07-16-1901 Source: http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=52164924&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=6 Terry ColegroveMy goal is simple - to help you reach yours!Pampered Chef ConsultantConsultant # 546527410-768-4013(h)443-517-7294(c)www.pamperedchef.biz/tcolegrove

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