The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 3

THREE STATES NOW ‘NQURE INTO LANE “MARRAGE MP Former Jersey Chancellor and Others Diréctly Concerned Appear Unconcerned. JURIST STILL. Connecticut Prosecutor, Pastor and New York Lawyer Meet at Carmel Home. SILENT. Carmel, N. Y., whoro a World re- perter discovered Mrs. Grace Heroht Bathgate Lane, was the meeting place thie afternan of four persons who have figured prominently in the cur- reat story of the matrimonial troubles of Joneph Merritt Lane, former Vice Chancellor of Now Jersoy. Prosecuting Attorney Kenealy of Stamford, Conn., who first heard Mrs. Hercht Lane's complaint against the formor Vico Chancollor, arrived at 8 o'clock this afternoon in an au- tomobile. The Rev. Clarence Hill Frank, who performed the marriage ceremony at Stamford, arrived earlier in the day and seemed disappointed at not finding Mrs. Lane at home. Her own counsel, Charles H. Kelley of New York, was reported to be on the way to Carmel. And It was said that & copference would be held this eve- ing. It is impossible to predict what may happen when tho two lawyers, Store Closes 5 P. M. the clergymen and the woman meet. Meanwhtle the former View Chan- cellor tt apparently indifferent to the course of events, while officials of three States investigate his domestic affairs, The States are interested, put there jIs No indication that any of the sev- Jeral persons directly connected Is at pregent taking any interest whatever in the stzange cage, Lane announces calmly that pe has “dropped the af- fais Lane quietly supervises the prepara. tion of her husband's dinner when she might be inquiring, along with the three States, whose husband he really is. And Mrs, Grace Hercht Rathgate Lane ts just as peacefully keeping house for herself and her son at Carmel, N. ¥., where she was dis- covered yesterday by a reporter for The World. Meanwhile officials of the States of New York, New Jorsey and Connee- ticut aro asking three Interwoven questions as follows: 1—Did Lane marry Grace Hercht Bathgate at Niagura Falls in 1912 while he was still the legal husband of his first wife, Clara I Witthebert Lane? 2—Did he marry Geraldine Gar- rison Curr at Newark last Janu- ary while he was the husband of Mrs. Hercht? 3—Did he marry Mrs. Hercht again at Stamford, Conn. on April 4 of this vear while “he was married to Mra. Geraldine Grr son Curr? ‘The first question ts of interest to the New York State authorities. The second interests New Jersey. And the third is being investigated by the Conneeticut authorities. POSSIBILITY OF CHARGE CON- SIDERED IN THREE STATES. ‘Thus the possibility of a bigamy charge has been considered in all three States. In Connecticut " Mrs, Geraldine Garrison ih the; may wish prosecuting attorney said the charge! friends makes It hard, Nevertheless, THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919 denev indicated that white Lana may have married Mrs. Grace Hereht Lane there (which Lane refuses to deny or confirm), the marriage was not con- summated in that State afd therefore, under the Connecticut law there was no bigamy, A still mre surprising situation was encountered in New Jersey when J. Henry Harrison, County Prosecu- tor at Newark, looked into the case “It appears,” ho said this morning, ‘that Lane married Mrs, Geraldine ‘urr immediately after his divorce from his first wife, The remainins question is whether he was Mrs. Graco Hereht Lane's husband when he mar- ried Mrs, Geraldine Gurrison Curr That would depénd on the aljoxed Niagara Falls marriage, But the Niagara Falls marriage, if it took place at ail, must have been bigamous under tho NeW York Iaw and there fore void under tho New Jorsey law Lane did not recognize Mrs, Hercht Lane as his wife in the two days be- tween his divorce from his first wife and his marriage to Mrs. Curr. So it appears that he was iegally free in New Jersey to marry Mrs, Curr when he did, There is nothing on which to base a bigamy prosecution in New Jersey.” The only remaining possibility, then. would have been a New York prose cution for bigamy sald to have taken place at Niagara Falls in 1912. The Evening World's correspondent at Niagara Falls telegraphed to-day that there 48 no record in the City Clerk's office there of the marriage of Lane to Mrs. Hercht. The only statement Mr. Lane made to-day was through his stenographer when he said: “The hardest task I have ever as- sumed ts to keep silence now, The apparent injustice to members of my family and tose who have been and to continue to be my could not be mado because the evi- I have elected my course and shall persist in it unless and until judgment otherwise dictates.” The moet perplexing feature of the affair is the apparent indifference of those dircetly involved. It 1s natural enough that the first wife should be indiff-rent, because she stepped out of Lane's life nearly a year ago by way of a Reno divorce. Mra, Hercht Lane and Mrs. Curr Lane are both apparently content, as Lane himself is, to let people say what they please and to pay no attention. LIVING FOR MY BOY, SAYS MRS. HERCHT LANE. Mrs. Grace Hereht Bathgate Lane was astonished when « World re- porter found her last night at Carmel. “How did you find me?” she cried. Then she sobbed and asked: “Why did you come here? But I knew this day would come, I have been expect- ing it. You want to know if 1 am Mrs. Joseph Merritt Lane. Yeas, I am, but please do not ask me to say any~ thing (urther about my trouble. You can never realize the pain and suffer- ing it has caused me. [ am trying to forget it all and tive only for the little boy. Me ls my son, the joy of my life.” The boy camo downstairs then, looking for his mother. He is a bright-eyed, sturdy youngster, with red cheeks and dark hair, M This morning when the reporters called again at the Carmel home Mrs. Lane had gone away in an automobile “to get away from roporters,” somo one at the house said. my This morning Charles E. Keney,! No. 30 Pine Strdet, who was the law- yer for Mrs, Heroht Lane when her interest in the matter was much more lively, doclared that as far as he and his client were concerned the caso was a closed incident, and this at a time whon District Attorneys, Con- necticut Prosecutors, and high ofm- cials of New Jersey were intimating that they considered it an incident Just beginning to open. T Inid all our carda « tho table For Convenience We Suggest Early Shopping James MecCreery & Co. ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th _ §th: Avenue Purchases will appear on bills rendered November Ist 34th Street This Sale Should Not Pass The Notice of a Single Miss! 1250 Misses’ Gowns of Exclusive Designs and Rich Materials 28 .00 regularly 39.50 to 55.00 | Ie ; INS A \ | BEAUTIFUL. PEERESS OF GREAT BRITAIN WHO | IS ENGAGED T0 MARRY | RONE RNA 1 D INTER MATIONAL | LONDON, Sept. 26.—Tho ongage- mont bas just been announced of Baroness Furnivall, daughter of the late Lord Petre, to Mr. E. R. Brough- ton-Addersey, who in 1914 was the hero of a famous Eton episode, being expelled for “breaking ground.” Lady Furnivall, who ts regarded as the most beautiful British peeress, ie tho daughter of tho Ith Lord Potre, Sho is only nineteen years old, and at her dobut at the opening of the season created a sensation by her beauty. The Furnivall barony ts one of Britain's oldest. For years It lay dormant, but six yoars ago was called | out of abeyance in her favor, when I visited District Attorney Swann yesterday,” suid Mr. Kelley, “Tle went over the caso thoroughly and assured mo that there was no hint of wrong-domg on our part. tle complimented mo on the way 1 had handled the cast for my client, “I have not seen nor communicated | with Mrs, Grace Hereht Lano for a week or #0, the former Vice Chancellor and the mother of his child, Respecting ber wishes I am bound by Iegul ethics to give po further details of the case, Perhaps she will tell the whole story, but I doubt It. The present expo: was not of her making, and tent to let the whole case drop. Uf any legul act) ts taken it will be by some of the ther parties comvernod or by the public authorith , The statement of Mr. Kelley that whe is con- | Mis client iv content to drop a cus \in which only @ fow months ago she “was demanding legal action, even « Prosceution on @ bigamy charge, is taken as tending to confirm infor: tion obtained by District Attorney Swann that a financial settlement has been made with Mrs. Hercht Lane. The amount ix aid to have bews $10,000 down in cash and a monthly ailowance for ber support avd the support of her child, whuin she calls Joseph Lane jr. Mr, Swann was Interested in the ro ported financial arrangement because | of the possibility that it might show 4 use of money for the purpose of checking a prosecution, But he says) he is now assured that the money was! | not for such « purpose but merely for | the support of the woman and the child, In @ talk with an Evening World reporter Mr. Lane was uskod whether Nis parents still lived. “They do,” he suid “qnd it breaks my heart to think of their this matter, Personally I am cas hardened and I don't care.” He wag asked the point blink ques- tion: “Why did you resign Chancellor?’ “Because I cannot live on $10,000 a year,” he said. sa ERS Known Miller, Dies. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. John $, Washburn, President of the Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills Com- pany, of this city, died suddenly last night at Livermore Falls, Me., accord- ing to word received here to-day. He was sixty-one years old ——s— as Vice) 26,— Lawson Alrp’ Damaged. 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If he hasn't them, wend 25c for trial tube, together with trial box of exquisite Marjaneh Face Powder, to Usit Manufacturing Co. of America, Inc, 8-10 West 45th Street, New York City. Lx ie of ail Unlead Sates cai nit products ore patented land Canada” » She ts the legul wife of |. jtaxes have be RIEDL BUS PERMIT REVOKED: WHALEN TO RUN THE LINES — ooo City to Work Out Permanent Plan For East Side Jitney The Board of Estimate to-day re- voked the permit of Louis Ried! to operate buses on the east side cross- town lines abanddned by the Now WEST VIRGINIA GOYERKOR WARNS AGAINST INVASION OF STRIKERS FROM O10 Wires Cox He Will Regard {i as an “Attack Upon Sovereignty of State.” COLUMBUS, ©, Sept. 24.—Cpon receipt to-day of a telegram trom Gov. Cornwell of West Virgil, saying 5,000 men from Steuben villo and other Ohio towns nearby are reported to be planning tw cross the Ohio tine into Hancock County, W. Va, for the purpose ot compelling Workers to qu't, Gov. Cox to-day wired W. G Baker, Sheriff of Jefferson Coun- ty, to use hia best offices to pro- York Railways Company, and gave to Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, a ten-day por- mit to supervise the buses whose owners volunteered their acrvices after Ried! is alleged to have failed to make good, ‘The city in the next ten days will work out a comprehen- sive, permanent plan of conducting the buses on the old storage battory routes, Commissioner Whalen, in a report to the bourd on the operation of the | buses, aatd: “So far the experiment has been successful, The buses ure well pat- ronized und meet with the approval of their patron, The people of the east aide he aken advantage of this service in spite of the fact that Job B, ' Hedges, receiver of the New York Railways Company, appointed by (he Hon, Julius M. Mayer, Judge of the United States District Court, stated that they would have to walk when these crosstown lines ceased opera. tom, The routes selocted for tho opsra- tion of the buses were glmost | tical with those of the atreet railway lines which have been abandoned, Wor the first time the p lo of the luwer east side have real rapid tran- ait through the medium of the bus service Which Is now being render without an incroase of fare, tine between terminals he s running about half tho usual me formerly required by tho sircet surface ratte way cars.” Iteldl to-day told Public Service Commissioner Nixon that be had been “double crossed" by Mayor Hylan and Whalen, He said be bad been prevailed upon, against his better judginent, to operate the lines and then the city olfictals, by subterfuge, had deprived him of bis rights by iwaintaining b@ bad failed to put up any mouey or furnish adequate services He declared Whalen was operating the system for the sake of shedding justre on bis own name or that yome influential person or persons were backing the Mayyr und the Commis Honor. eines caitectae GITY SELLS $2,833,752 WORTH OF CAR LINE LENS Amount Represents Unpaid Spe Franchises and Real Estate ‘Taxes. The city this afternoon sold at public $2,833,752 worth of liens, re- unpaid special franchises taxes levied principally lines now controlled by autelon, presenting and real estate on xtreet ear the Th rd Avenue Railways aytem. The pn accumulating for nin then years, Special franchise taxes cover the in right granted to tho railway ms in their use of the streets, as well us the use of tracks and poles. If the corporations tn arrears buy the liens the purchases will be tantamount to a payment of the taxes. If the ety decides to be the buyer the liens in its | possession will take the form of mort- gages which may be foreclosed If puy> ments are not made. Among the lines indebwdad and the amount are: Dry Dock, Bast River and Battery, $45, Kingbridge Ratlway Company, $21,016; Metropolitan Street Ra lway, $435,000; New York and Har- lem, $54,000; Second Avenue and Thir- |ty-eight Street, 00; Union Rail~ way Company, $4,000, "and Thurty- | $7,000. fourth Btreet line, "20 YEARS ARMY SERGEANT ENDS LIFE WHEN DEMOTED News of Suicide Reaches Fort Slocum Just as Squad Pre- pares to Prevent It | commanding officer at | ‘The the ree | celving station of the Army Reerulting Hervice at Mort Slocum had just. ore | dered a rergeant and « equad to tuke | the first boat today to go to the home: of Private John Smith No (4 Uaxie! Avenue, the Bronx, and prevent from harming himaecif when the yp | {notified him by telephone that John | Smith was of gas | The soldier's wif children re: | turned from @ visit out of town to find | and him lifeless in his bedroom which was | filled with gas from an open jet. A etter to the the kitehen tabl beon & sergeant for nearly twenty years and | had been redui ago without and A air ft > the ranks five days to the co locum was cnnen. now In business | ort ronx Count William nly Ll permitting them t Excise Com rmaine said to the New York Railways Company and |¢ vent any possibility of confict be- tween citizens of Ohio and West Virginia, In his telegram Gov. Cornwell said such an invasion of West Virginia by Ohio strikers “wilt be regarded us on attack upon the doveroignty of Wost Virginia.” STUBBEN VILLE, O., Sept. 26.— Local stecl strikers will hold a mass mecting at the court house hero to-night at which workmen from the Weirton Steel Co, mills at Weirton, Va, near here, have been Invited to attend. Union. leaders have umnounced that if We this on men do not turn out at movting, local strikers will parade to Weirton the frst of the weok to hold a meeting, Employees of the Weirton steot Co, aro not organized and the plant {#8 reported by company of- flointe to be operating 100 per cent, WOMEN ASK SUSPENSION OF PORTER AND HOGUE Charge Irregularities in Orlice of State Division of Foods and Markets. suspension of head of the Apniteation for Dr Kugeno oF State Division of vole and Marketa, and George Mogue, head of the State Dairy Division, wan made to-day by Mra. Loule Ro Welamiller, who says she réprexents 300,000 women in New York State as chairman of the Plenty Food League and the Torminal Markets League, The application wa Diet with George Gordon. Nattio, whe Ie cons ducing an Investigation of thy State Council of Farms ant Markets at the tion of Gov, Bmith Mra. 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