Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-26
RUES HIS BARGAIN.
Jack Everhardt Wants a Divorce
from His Wife,
AND SHE Is ALSO TIRED OF HIM

He Says Their Marriage Was Illegal and
She Says He Lacks Some Qualities Ncces.
sary in . Good Observation-Disclosures
That q Financial Question Has Some
thing tn On with the Troubic-what She
Lost by Her Marriage.
New York. Sept. 26.-Jack Evcrhardt
the lightweight pugilist. has brought
q suit through Lawyers Friend, House
q Grossman. of the Pulitzer building.
FOR an annulment OF his marriage with
Dorothy Sadee Hardick. whom he
married in this city four months ago
Everhardt alleges that at the time he
married the pretty young woman he
did not know she had been divorced
from Charles f. Howell. of Brooklyn.
some years ago. The decree of divorce
granted by Justice O'Rrien forbade
Mrs. Howell from remarrying as long
as her husband was living. Mr. Howell
| Is still alive. When the pugilist mar
ried his wife every body congratulated
him on his good fortune. 1t was known
that the young woman was wealthy
| in her OWN right and would inherit a
large fortune upon the death OF her
mother. Everhardt is considerably
younger than his wife.
Her Marriage Dispieased Her Mother.
Mrs. Everhardt is a till, fine-looking
woman. with large blue eyes and yellow
hair. She is a finished musician and
fine linguist. and is noted for her
beauty, her accomplishments. her fas-
cinating manners. and her magnificent
| costumes. She is the daughter OF the
late Charles b. Hardick, of Brooklyn,
who made n fortune as a manufacturer
! of steam pumps. The Hardicks were
of the best society in Brooklyn. Mrs
Hardick was shocked when she learned
that her daughter had married a prize
| fighter. Mrs. Hardick was in England
at the time and refused to have any
thing more to do with her daughter
Mrs. Hardick died about eight weeks
ago on board a Cunard steamship on
her way to this city. Her body was
brought here and buried in the family
plot in Greenwood cemetery. Mrs.
Everhardt did not attend the funeral.
neither was she permitted to see the
| body.
Forfeited q Fortune for Jack.
Mrs. Hardick left nearly $1,000 900 in
| money and about as much more in real
When the will was opened II was found
that Mrs. Everhardt had practically
been disinherited by her mother be-
cause she had married a pugilist The
amount left her daughter was s.. Mrs
Everhardt says she is contrasting the
| will. Mrs. Everhardt, when seen by q
reporter. said she had a better right to
bring suit than her husband had. She
said she had found among his effects
! letters and tell-tale photographs which
, he received since his marriage. Il have
done so much for Jack" she said. My
! mother disinherited me because I mar
ried pugilist. When Jack found this
, out he was disappointed. He does not
| know, however, that I am going to re-
ceive a share of my fathers estate. He,
| too, was a millionaire"
Mrs. Everhardt acknowledged that
/ her marriage to the prize fighter was
her third matrimonial venture when
i was only II years DID, she said, land
had just graduated from Vassar. I ran
| away and married my dancing master.
! and this marriage was annulled. Three
years ago I was divorced from William
c. Cowper, an English poet in Lon
don." Mrs. Everhardt said she turned
her pugilist husband out of her house
| last week and that he has brought suit
| because of that.