The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-23
Of DIVORCES THREE
Whereby Hangs a Tale Not as
Yet All Told.
MRS. MAUD IS SET FREE
To Wed, If She Will, One of
Two Other Divorces.

/ New York, Jan. 22-The Journal says
The polite world Of Cleveland, Ohio. 4
| engaged in working out a puzzle. 1
Is an old one that has been revised b,
the divorce just granted to Mrs. Walter
de S. Maud.
What will the lady do next? That i:
the puzzle, problem, conundrum. or what
ever one chooses to call It.
The divorce granted on January al
Akron, Ohio, to Mrs Maud has renewed
the old gossip that connected her name
with a Senator and a Senator's son.
The Senator's son is already divorced
The Senator is about to be divorced.
Thereby hang the tales OF the gossips
sonae:
Mrs. Walter de S. Maud was Daisy
Gordon, who was born in Cleveland and
has spent some time in Colorado
The Senator's son is Daniel Rhodes
Hanna, of Cleveland.
The Senator is from Colorado. He has
also spent some years of his life in
Cleveland.
It is enough. Over this knowledge the
gossips nod their heads and whisper,
which,. Senator Edward Wolcott, of
Colorado, or Dan R. Hanna, son of Mark,
the Senator from Ohio? Which?"
But this is the end Of a tale that be-
gan as exquisiteEy as any love story de-
signed TO continue in happiness. It be-
gan on April 10. in the year 1897, to the
sound of wedding bells, IN St Agnes
Chapel, Trinity Parish. They announced
the marriage Of Miss Daisy Gordon. one
of the prettiest of Cleveland's beauties,
TO Mr. Walter de s. Maud, SON of
wealthy London merchant
In the press of that day there were
paragraphs devoted to the wedding
They told Of the brides beauty and the
groouPs prospects. They pictured her in
a gown of white accordion plated pine
apple muslin, with a tull veil caught
with single orchid. They chronicled the
bridegroom's superb gift-a long string
of large matched pearls.
They told how the bride was a daught
er of Charles Gordon and a granddaught
er Of the Carbon who gave to Cleveland
Carbon Park. Walter de S. Maud had
won an Iheiress worth at least a couple
of hundred thousand dollars for his
bride. His prospects were 'even as bril-
liant He was one Of the large land and
cattle owners in Colorado and Texas.
A small reception after the ceremony
gathered about these young people some
notable guests. among them Chauncey
M nd
Senator Calvin S. Brice.
The most brilliant marriage Of the
week held forth the promise of undying
happiness.
This was less than three years ago.
A month ago, in Akron, a little town
thirty-six miles south of Cleveland. Mrs.
Maud petitioned for divorce on the
ground of extreme cruelty and gross
neglect.
The news created a sensation, and in
its wake the old story that Mrs. Maud
would marry either Dan NIanna or
"Silver Ed" Wolcott was again revised.
With it the conjugal mishaps of the
three have been retold.
Place aux dames-the ladies first.
A honeymoon in the West followed the
brilliant match Of Walter de S. Maud
and Daisy Gordon. The match itself
was, by the way, a surprise to every one
in Cleveland, for those who mad seen the
girl grow up had always predicted that
she would marry the son Of a Senator.
If she had, possibly this tale would
never have been written. Fate ordained
that at eighteen years OF age, having
been sent to Colorado for lung trouble.
she should meet Walter de S. Naud.
When she returned to Cleveland it was
remarked that she had become indiffer-
ent to the charms of any Of her whilom
suitors. Her marriage to the young
Englishman explained the reason.
There is nothing TO Indicate that the
honeymoon of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter de
S. Maud was not happy, nothing but that
at the end of It the bride returned to
Cleveland alone. For some time it was
given out that business detained the
young husband in Texas.
This. however, seemed not to trouble |
Mrs. Maud. She lived her life without
him as best she might. Because of her |
beauty and her wealth she was a con-
spicuous figure at horse shows, assem- !
blies, receptions and even balls. Natur-
ally by the same cause, she was not /
neglected at any Of these functions.
Cleveland society predicted a divorce. !
Mrs. Maud took up her residence in Ak |
ron and fulfilled the expectations Of her |
friends when she petitfoned the courts /
to set her free because of neglect and /
cruelty.
The decree was granted TO her-a gift /
Of the new year-on January 8.
The lady is free All society is agog
to see what she Will do next. Mean /
while, during the course Of their gossip /
ing. they tell and retel the tale of the /
difficulties in the house of young Dan |
iel Rhodes Hanna son of Mark Hanna,
the Ohio Senator.
They begin way back in the early SOS, |
when Cornelius II. Harrington, the faith !
er OF Dan Hanna's divorced wife. moved
from Pennsylvania TO Cleveland. The I
reason they begin 80 far back is because |
that was also the period when those who !
knew Daisy Gordon used 70 prophesy
that some day she would perhaps marry
the Senator's son. As ii turned out,
however. this was all idle gossip.
Yet at that tim eNliSs Harrington had
for a very particular chum Daisy Gro
bon. They were always together II !
was therefore, perhaps quite natural that 1
those who thought they were most dis /
corning should De mistaken in picking |
out the girl that young Hanna was to /
love
These girls were both uncommonly |