Percy J. Ford Sr., who is 60 years old, yesterday was made the defendant in a suit for separate maintenance filed in the Circuit court by Mrs. Mathilda A. Ford. He is a member of the Chicago Athletic association, the Traffic club, is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a buyer for Crerar, Adams & Co.

Mrs. Myrtle Sydney Lunham, "alias Searle, King, and Hoffmeier," is named as correspondent in the declaration of the plaintiff.

A few hours before her lawyers filed her petition, Mrs. Ford was made defendant in a $25,000 damage suit filed by Mrs. Myrtle Sydney Lunham. Counsel for Mrs. Lunham refused to divulge the contents of the declaration in the damage suit which will be filed when Circuit court again convenes.

They state, however, it was for slander, and added that the case "would be sensational." The address of Mrs. Lunham was withheld from the court, and her lawyers said they did not know where she lived.

In the Ford vs. Ford case Mrs. Lunham's address is given as 3702 Sheffield avenue. According to Mrs. Ford her husband and Mrs. Lunham are living at the address under the name of Searle.

Mrs. Ford in her bill sets forth that she was married on Dec. 29, 1884, and lived with her husband until Dec. 9, 1912, when he deserted her. They have four children, Percy J., Jr., Harry, Robert, and Ethel. Percy Jr. is 26 years old.

Mrs. Ford alleges her husband came home at 4 a.m. on Nov. 25 last, and that when she asked where he had been that he struck her. On Dec. 16, the bill states, Mrs. Ford with two of her sons saw her husband enter the flat of Mrs. Lunham in Sheffield avenue and an hour later they gained entrance and found Ford sitting with his coat off in the dining room, near Mrs. Lunham.

Mrs. Ford alleges that her husband is the owner of real estate valued at $10,000 and has an income of $500 a month from his position with Crerar, Adams & Co.

"The slander suit against my mother," said Percy J. Ford Jr. last night," is just the last stand the two are making. We have the goods on them and they know it. I believe my father urged Mrs. Lunham to file the suit. My father has not been at our residence, 1928 Sunnyside avenue, for more than a month. Detectives hired by my mother have seen him go to the Lunham flat in the evening and not leave there until from 2 to 5 o'clock in the morning. He told us he was only taking his meals there.

"This Mrs. Lunham, as we understand from detectives, is the wife of an actor. She has one child, who is seriously ill. She has been living under the names of King, Searle, Hoffmeier, and Lunham. I believe King was her name before she married. She is only about 24 years old and my father is over 60. That is the ridiculous thing about it. My father has a daughter older than this Lunham woman. It is just a case of an old codger wanting a taste of high life."

Matilda A Ford