Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20
HER THIRD WEDDING.
Lively: Experience of Young and
Pretty Gertrude Potter.
FELL IN LOVE WITH A NEWSBOY.
Then She was Married Secretly to One Man
and Then to Another.
NOW SHE TIES UP TO NO. 1 AGAIN

CHICAGO, Sept. 19.-Another social SEN
sation to which Miss Gertrude Whiting
Potter, daughter of o. w. Potter, the mil
lionaire President of the Illinois Steel
Company, is a party, was developed this
afternoon: AT the residence of her parents
in the Virginia apartment house shortly
after noon she was married to Julius Clarke
Daniels, of New York. The groom is %
years of age and is son of George H.
Daniels, general passenger and ticket agent
of the New York Central Railroad. The
bride was 20 years of age. The ceremony
was private, only the members of interested
families being present. The bride and
groom left for the East this afternoon.
Miss Potter, it will be remembered, is
the young woman whose clandestine
marriage with young F. Lee Rust, son of
William Rust, the millionaire lumberman,
of Eau Claire, Wis, contracted at Geneva
Lake, Wis, June 6, last, was privately
annulled in the Circuit Court in this city
one day this week. The grounds on which
the annulment was decreed were that young
Rust was a minor, that the ceremony was
performed without the consent of his
parents and that the contracting parties had
never lived together as husband and wife.
The lady gave her consent to the entering
of the decree.
Welded NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO.
An authorized statement made for the
family this afternoon adds heretofore un-
known feature to the affair. The statement
says:
December 81, 1889. Julius Clarke Daniels Sc
cured from the County Clerk of Cook county
n license to himself under the name Of Julius
Clarke and to Gertrude Whiting Potter, un-
der the name of Gertrude White, to marry.
Acting under that license, Julius Clarke
Daniels andfGertrude Whiting Potter were
on the 1st of January, $780, united in mar
rage by the Rev. R. A. John, pastor of st.
Paul's Church, in the city of Chicago. The
parties continued thereafter to live at their
respective homes. Subsequently Miss Potter
submitted to legal counsel the question of
the validity of her marriage with Mr.
Daniels and was advised and believed that
such marriage was invalid. She then in
formed Mr.. F. Lee Rust of the ceremony per-
formed on the first day of January between
herself and Mr.. Daniels and of the advice
which she had received: Thereupon both
parties believing they had right to do so, q
ceremony of marriage was performed at
Lake Geneva, Wis, on the sixth day OF June,
1891, by the Rev. NJ. j. Ward. Both of the
unknown to the parents of any OF the par
ties concerned. The ceremony of June G,
1891, Was first made known to the parents by
its publication about Il week ago. AT that
previous ceremony of marriage.
THE LAST KNOT WILL HOLD.
The statement then goes on to give the
details of the suit for and decree of annul-
ment of the marriage with young Rust, sub
stantially as already recited in these dis
patches, and continues as follows:
"No actual necessity existed for any de-
cree of court annulling the marriage, which
was In fact void but the same was secured
for the reason that the interests of all con-
cerned made it proper under the circum-
stances stated. September 10, 1891, Mr.. Julius
Clarke Daniels and Miss Gertrude White
Porter were again united in marriage at
ceremony performed by the Rev. DIR.
Stryker, of the city of Chicago, at the home
of Miss Potter's parents in the Virginia
Hotel, in the presence of the PARENTS and
family of both of the parties"
The bride is also the heroine of Chicago's
famous newsboy romance. A newsboy,
fell in love with her, and it is
alleged the girls father had him thrown
into prison to keep his daughter from marry
ing him.