The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-30
DIVORCES IN DAKOTA.
Mecca of Disconnected Wives Who
Would Break the Bands
That Bind.
Story Of the Marital Infelicity -
One of the Descendants
of Aston.
Mime. do steura the Wife Of q Baron, IL
in Love with Another
Man.

New YORK, July 29.--Information from
Sioux Falls, S. D., states that Mime. de
Steurs, niece of William Aston, and wife of
Baron dc Steurs, now, and for many years,
Belgian minister to Paris, leased q cot
tsoe in that town Of divorces just six
weeks ago.
Mime. de Steurs does not keep a full es-
Establishment. She takes her meals in the
principal hotel, being constantly accom-
panied by her agent, William Elliott, who
is described as a young gentleman of very
athletic build, a splendid horseman, of
dark complexion and very English in dress
and manners.
The story of the married life of Nine. de
Steurs up to it's dramatic climax may be
very briefly indicated. Before her marriage
she was a Miss Carey. Her mother was
Aida Astor. who was the youngest sister OF
the late John Jacob Aston and the present
William Aston. She married an English
man named John Carey, who won the hand
of Aida Astor. Notwithstanding that he
was a man without fortune.
On the death of William B. Astor he be-
same one of the executors of his father-in-
laws will. John Carey and his wife lived
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three children.
Two of hem are now young men, both
members of the knickerbocker club, and
one of them recently distinguished himself
by going to Africa on a lion hunting e1pe-
dition.
The daughter, Miss Carey, married eight
or ten years ago the Baron de Steurs, who is
a Belgian by birth. 1t was a common I'M
derstanding in New York before Nine. de
Steur's marriage that Elliott Iabroskie,
whose father left him a millionaire. was
deeply enamored of the handsome heiress,
and this wa at the time believed to be SO
reciprocated that her marriage with the
Belgian created profound surprise in New
York society.
Young Mr.. Zabroskie was also a firm
friend to Nine. de Steurs in her subsequent
matrimonial troubles. He ia a we'll known
member of the Rockaway hunt, and unless
it is Foxhall Keene, is accredited as the
best horseman in or about New York. He
was last definitely heard from here as hay
ing been in India, where Mime. dc Steurs is
also understood to have passed last winter.
Nine. de Steurs is an exceedingly eccen-
trio and interesting personality. Her do
mestic history has furnished n series of very
romantic chapters during the past two or
LUTS0 years, duu 6OCloty HAS Ueeu pTOparcu
for an additional chapter more romantic
and fascinating than any of his predeces-
sors-very possibly. in case she obtains a
divorce. her marriage to the devoted lover
of her girlhood days.
According to the generally accepted story
Mime. dc Steurs appeared at Romburg, the
famous German watering place, last Au-
gust, and astonished her American friends,
including Miss Marion Langdon, by declar-
ing that her husband had threatened in
Paris to have her confined in a lunatic
asylum, and that she had run ava from
him to escape certain imprisonment, the
duration of which she had no means of pre-
dioting. but, knowing the French laws, she
had anticipated it with the utmost terror.
There are two or three children, and
these are now understood to be with their
father in Paris.
first came to the surface in tho spring of
1889. At that time Nine. de Steurs came
over to this county with the avowed intsn-
ton of securing a divorce.
She secured a residence at Newport and
this she still holds. She made no secret OF
CONNER in society during the winter of
1S59-9O.
Mrs. William Aston is said to have been
very much disturbed over what she re-
garded as a scandal, and the story is that
her trip to Europe a year ago last March
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q reconciliation between her niece and her
husband. AS a result of her mediation,
Nine. de Steurs returned to Europe in April
or May, and it was then commonly under
stood that her domestic differences had all
been arranged.
Nothing was heard to the contrary until
Nine. de Stcurs made her appearance at
Homburg. as alrendy related. Nine. de
Steur asserted that she had offered her hus-
pan any reasonable amount of money if
he would give her control of the children
and secure a divorce from her.
She had offered to pay his gambling
debts, which WAS considerable, and to settle
a handsome fortune on him or a yearly in
come. To these propositions he turned a
deaf ear, and she declared that she didn't
now quite what to do.
If she is now acquiring a residence with a
view to a divorce application, she doubtless
believes her present action warranted by
the circumstances. She has $4,000 a year,
it is stated, all of it derived from American
property. Unless he accedes to her terms.
1t is believed, the baron cannot reach any
portion of it.
The purpose of Nine. de Steurs in this
decidedly unconventional proceeding, &C
cording to friends who profess to have
knowledge of the situation, was to force
Baron de Steurs into procuring u divorce