Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-08
ker and daughter
MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT.
Fulton II. Gordon and Miss Cora Hart
ElODe.

ElOpe.
Fulton R. Cord IN, who was recently
party in a sensational civoroe case in this
city, which gave him a good deal of I'M
pleasant notoriety, has sgain called atten-
ton to himself by unconventional per-
Torrance. Although rot long released by
the law from the bords of matrimony, he
has a second time taken to himself a wife.
This time his marriage was an elopement.
The present Mrs. Gordon was, up TO last
Saturday night Miss Cora A Hart, living
with her parents at 9i2 street. She is
but twenty years of age, and is said to be
a pretty and particularly attractive girl.
Gordon has known Miss Hart for about
two years, and even before his divorce, it
is said. was attentive to her. and tried to
get permission to call upon her at her
home. This her father rigidly forbade.
Mrs. Hart told a Star reporter today that
Gordon had ne-er been admitted TO the
house, and she could not Understand when
he had had chance to see her daughter,
the latter was rarely permitted to go
cut without some member of the family
with her. Miss Hart has always been most
domestic in her habits and tastes, and the
1ondness and sympathy existing between
mother and daughter have often been re-
marked upon by the neighbors. Mr.. Chas.
S. Hart has been a clerk in the War De-
partment for the past fifteen years, and is
held in high esteem.
His Divorce Suit.
III is little over year ago that Gordon
attracted attention to himself here. He
came to Washington from Maryland, where
he is the owner of considerable real estate
about North Laurel. For a while he and
his brother owned the Hotel Lincoln, but
the venture did not prove great success.
and the house soon reverted to its original
owner. About sixteen months ago Gordon
sued his wife for divorce, alleging cruelty.
She filed a cross-suit, charging him with
IaI
bis suit so as to make it conform in the
matter of charges to hers At the same
time he brought suit for damages against
his wifeS lawyer for the alienation of his
wifes affections. Both his suits We're dis
missed. and his wife was granted a divorce
with alimony. Gordon was handled with
out gloves by Judge Bradley in his suit for
damages, the judge sharply criticising his
action in bringing the suit and the methods
he had pursued in obtaining testimony.
The Marriage.
Saturday afternoon Miss Hart went to
the Marine Band concert with a young
lady friend. Her failure to return occa-
stoned her family great alarm. 1t is pre-
sumed she met Gordon at the concert, and
was then induced to go off with him. He
had recently made several unsuccessful at
tempts to see her or to communicate with
her. The first her parents knew of her
whereabouts was yesterday, when they re-
oeived a telegram from her from Camden
Station, announcing her marriage. The
young couple were married at Elicott City
at midnight Saturday by a Baltimore min
lister, who happened to be staying over
night at the hotel there. Yesterday thew
left for North Laurel, where Gordon has
a summer home. The girls parents are
completely broken up over the affair Mr..
Hart threatens personal injury when he
sees his new son-in-law, but Mrs Hart
takes it rather more kindly, and hopes for
a reconciliation on the ground that it is
wise to make the best of thing that can
not be helped.