The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-09
AMERICAN GIRLS SOLD
MARQUIsE DE FONTENOY EXPOSES
INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES.
Sad Outcome of Mary wheeIer's Pur-
chase of Count Pappenheim-Oth-
er COnnubial Misfits.
Marquise De Fontenoy. in New York Jour-

Bavaria married Mary Wheeler, a Philadel-
phia heiress.
June, 1so0-The Bavarian court forced
Count Pappenheim TO relinquish all his
rights and titles to his younger brother.
May, 1s92-"Count" Pappenheim demanded
larger allowance than So, Oc0 a year, which
his wife was paying him. claiming that it
would not pay his gambling debts.
December, 1S96-"Countess' Pappenheim
was obliged to obtain a divorce for divers
reasons and returned to Philadelphia, where
she opened millinery establishment.
June IS 1S99-"Count' Pappenheim was ar
rested in Bavaria as common swindler.
When it is borne in mind that up to the
time Of his marriage TO Miss Wheeler. of
Philadelphia, Count Macmillan Pappen-
helm enjoyed social and official precedence
of even so grand a parsonage as the late
Prince Bismarck, 1t must be confessed that
his arrest as a common swindler and en-
bezzler at Innsbruck, in Bavaria, consti-
tutes terrible fall. However, on wedding
Miss Wheeler he was forced by his family
and by the Bavarian crown to surrender
to his younger brother, Louis, all his rights
and prerogatives as a scion of one of the
mediatized or formerly reigning houses of
Germany, which still enjoy sovereign rank,
" ueSCSHu 10 position OF an OrQl-
nary nobleman. He was likewise COM
PEELED at the time TO waive all his claims
on the family estates of the Pappenheims
That is why. after being turned adrift by
his American wife. he has been without
resources, and that also is the reason why
he can now be arrested as a common
swindler, since he has forfeited by his mar
riage all his legal immunities as a member
or a mediatized family.
L knew all about the count years before
ne married Miss Wheeler, and at the time
OF the announcement of his engagement to
her ventured in these letters to indicate as
dellcately as possible that his antecedents
were not such as to render him a suitable
husband for a high-spirited American girl.
l drew attention TO the fact that while his
family and rank in the aristocracy were of
the nlgneSt character, yet that he had been
mixed up in quite a large number of scan
dals, some of which had been aired i'm the
Bavarlan press, and which redounded so
nuch 10 ms disgrace as to cause people to
ngnt shy or him. There were not merely
Dig debts of honor unsettled and the fact
tnat MS name was posted in number of
continental clubs for nonpayment of bets
and card table liabilities, but there was like
wise an affair which led to his being de-
prived of the more or less honorary office
which he held at the Bavarian court.
DETERMINED TO WE'D HIM.
L believe that / am right in stating that
IL was In consequence of my remarks about
the count that Mr.. Elliott of Philadelphia.
brother-in-law of the Miss Wheeler who
was engaged to Count Pappenheim pro-
ceeded to Germany for the purpose of in
curing into the history of the count There
ne found that everything that had been
stated here was true; that the counts
record was most Unenviable one, and that
moreover. on account of misconduct, he had
peeil placed under what is known in Ger
ihdny as curatel that is to say, judicial
~ declared unfit to manage his own affairs
or TO exercise his civic rights.
IN Splte OF this, and OF the very deter
Inlned opposition on the part of Mr. Elliott
the marriage took place at Philadelphia un,
oer the auspices of that indiscreet German
envoy, Inc late Count Arco, who i'm spite
actually introduced into New York soceity
an ex-lnmate of German penitentiary in
Ine person OF the Russian Prince Eristoff
disappeared from New York on the eve az
MS marriage to a wealthy widow, after
as SUCH being confirmed by an English de-
tectlve inspector who happened to be pass
ing through New York.
american Countess Pappenheim was cruel
~ disappointed to find that through her
n no;,Dn action in surrendering to. his
as Well as his position as the head of a
medlatlzed family, he had lost all the So
ciaI Importance and prestige to which his
name and ancestry entitled him. and her
mortihcation was further increased at see
ing the manner in. which \people of every
class fought shy of him on account of HIS
antecedents. Then he commenced spend
ing her money in the most extravagant
manner, and matters finally eliminated
In his being turned out of doors by his wife
and mother-in-law.
1 wonder if anybody has ever taken the
trouble TO enumerate all the so-called inter-
national marriages, that is to saw the union
between American heireSses and European
mobiles that have turned out unhappily like
that OF Miss Wheeler and Count Pappen-
hniV IDrfr, IL
Mrs. Bonanza" Mackay, is separated from
her Italian spouse after most sensational
episodes, including the flight of the princess
to America with her children in order to
escape an order for her arrest obtained by
the prince at Paris, owing to her refusal TO
obey the direction of the French courts to
surrender to him the care of her children.
ALL GOLD BRICKS"
The Marquise de Talleyrand Perigord, who
was a Miss Curtis. of Boston. is divorced
from her French husband. who now bears
the title of Duke of Dino and is married to
another American woman. who was Miss
Sampson, of New York. Lady Edmund
Fitzmaurice, who was Miss Fitzgerald, of
Ltchfield. Conn, is judicially separated
from her husband, younger brother of the
Marquis of Lansdowne. now secretary of
state OF war. while at the present moment
Mrs Burke-Roche daughter of Frank
Work. of New York is engaged in legal pro-
ceedings relating to the possession of her
children with her husband, who is younger
brother and heir of Lord Fermoy.
Nine. De Stuers, daughter of j. Carey, of
New York, and niece of Mrs William As
tor, is divorced from the Chevalier De
Stuers. the Dutch envoy at Paris. who
tains possession of her children, while Miss
Winnaretta Singer, daughter of the late
Isaac Singer, of Boston. and of sewing ma
chine fame. was compelled to secure a legal
divorce and an ecclesiastical annulment of
her marriage TO Prince Louis de Scey Mont
belliard before becoming the wife of Prince
Edmond Polignac.
The Marquise De San Marsano. daughter
of the late millionaire tobacconist. Eccles
Gillender, OF New York, is separated from
her Italian husband. while Lady Aylmer,
the daughter of Douglas Reid, of New York
and divorced wife of George STEELE, of Chi
cago is now divorced from her Irish hus-
band. Sir Arthur Aylmer.
The now widowed Marchioness of Angle
sey, daughter of j. p King of Sand Hills,
Ga, had been judcially separated from
her disreputable English husband for num-
Der of years at the time of his unmourned
death. while the domestic unhappiness of
Baron and Baroness Won Bildt, the latter
daughter of the late Mrs. Bloomfield
Moore, of Philadelphia. was for time a
subject of public comment. The baron is
now the chief representative of Sweden and
of Norway at the peace conference at The