WEDS STEP-SON’S EX-WIFE.
Sued For Alienation Of Affections By Bride’s First Husband, And By Own Wife For Divorce.
Boston, Mass., July 15.- Society along the North Shore was given a surprise today when it was learned that Eben B. Phillips, member of the millionaire Phillips family, of Swampcott and Gertrude Mace Phillips, divorced wife of the bridegroom’s step-son, Harry F. Phillips, were secretly married in Peabody on June 21 by the Rev. George W. Penniman, and are now spending a three months’ honeymoon in the middle west. Mr. Phillips is 40 and his bride is 25.
Mr. Phillips has a string of valuable horses listed in the grand circuit races.
Eben Phillips was sued by the husband of the woman he has married for $25,000 for alienation of her affections. He also brought suit against his wife for divorce, naming his stepfather. Gertrude filed a counter suit naming Miss Inez Field, a pretty clerk in a Lynn department store, whom she claimed Harry took out automobiling.
Eben B. Phillips was in turn sued for divorce by his wife, Harry’s mother, who named her son’s wife, Gertrude, in her suit.
Source: Weekly-Times Recorder, Americus, Georgia, Thursday Morning, July 16, 1914; Pg. 12
