"I married her out of a sense of
honor." said Newton. "We lived to
gether three days. Afterward she re
turned to Price."
Generosity induced him to claim Miss
Vrgoe as his bride, although he never
really loved her. and they constants
quarrelled. This Is Newton's account of
his reason for marrying wife No. 2. He
denied Miss Argoe's story that they were
married in 1911. The wedding took
place In September, 1918, in Now York
during the war, according to Newton's
a-sertlons. Although Newton had tried
to enlist and had been refused because
of defective vision, he expected to be
drafted. He married Miss Argoe be
cause he wanted her to be his bene
ficiary in the event of his death in the
service, he narrated.
"While Miss Argoe and I wore doing
a vaudeville act in New York we met
Miss Edmondson," Newton said. "We
took her into the act. It failed. Ltiter
I Jumped to Chicago to obtain a booking.
?While there I ran over to Fort Huron,
Mich., and remained three weeks at the
home of Miss Edmondson's parents.'
There war, gossip, related the actor,
and he felt duty bound again to still the
voices that linked lits name with Miss
Edmondson's. Before their marriage,
ho said, he confessed to her his pre
vious matrimonial contracts. Newton
says Miss Edmondson favored a wed
ding first and divorce from the others
afterward. The third, Newton adds, was
his only real love marriage.
read, but Bernard Kelly, formerly su
perintendent of the Stlllman place in
Poeantlco Hills, identified the hand
writing as that of Beauvals. Kelly said
that his wife, Irene, had been Mrs.
