The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-06

Chicago. Aug. 6.-Mrs. Grace Snell-Coc-
I'm n-Coffin- w alker- CO ofrfn- -Layman has be-
gun her NTH divorce suit. She wants
TO marry Frank Nixon Coffin for The
fourth time. but Coffin is growing a 1T
tie base about marrying Grace so often.
Anyway. he thinks he will not marry her
again just yet. but will let her have few
husbands more before he ties UP to her for
the fourth time
At least these are the sentiments he Is
alleged by his friends to entertain, and
they consider Mrs. Snell-CofYin-Coffin
Walker LAyrnan and so forth. et cetera.
etc. &C. as lacking In delicacy" for
urging her suit for a fourth time upon
Mr.. Coffin. especially as her divorce from
Laymsn cannot be granted for at least a
year. according to the new stringent di-
vorce law that has just gone into effect.
Mrs. SHETLAND On was married to
Perkins A. Layman less than nine months
ago. They soon parted. He told her he
had no money. He is said to have told
her he thought she had. She received a
burning telegram today from LaymsnA
saying that he had obtained a position
In a New York hotel as clerk at a salary
OF $50 a month and implortns her TO re-
join him. He said he was ''awfully
sorry he had left her and begged to be
taken back" She telegraphed back an
ice-coid mo-" II was so decisive IL
froze the wire.
ASKS FRIENDS TO HELP HER.
She has called on mutual friends and
besought them TO use their influence TO
bring about her marriage for the fourth
time to CONN According to these
friends. she sent this telegram to Conn
this afternoon:
Please marry me just once more
Then. according also to these same
kind friends. Frank is said to have sent
this reply:
mo more at present. think I've
married you for positively the last time.
I'll make II three times and out for mine.
Best wishes, Frank"
Now. isn't that a shame?" oueried
Mrs. Smell Coffin Three Times and So
Forth. Of her friends. AT least they
say so.
i've been married only three times to
Frank. you know. II isn't four times, as
some spiteful people have said. / just
lothe my last husband.
Isn't II a pity about the law7 They
are getting so strict about divorces now.
The law has been changed go that can't
get a divorce for a whole year. Just
think Of Il. Isn't II dreadful?"
Mrs SHETLAND So Forth is handsome.
and thirty seven years old. She is the
most eccentric OF an eccentric family.
Her father Amos Smell. one OF Chicago's
noted milltonaires, was mysteriously
murdered In his home several years ago.
Burglar william Tascott was accused as
his slayer. Several times he was re-
ported captured. but they were all false.
Her sister Alice eloped with Douglas
Greene OF New York. She died four
years ago.
MONEY ALL GONE.
When Mrs. Smell died she left a large
estate to Grace and other daughters.
but IN some mysterious manner the
money took wings. Last summer the
fine country house of the family at An
tioch. Wis. was taken by creditors.
Besides having the penchant for Coffin,
as will be noticed by her record Grace
Smell also has a leaning toward hotel
clerks. Between her second and third
marriages to Coffin she became the wife
OF Walker. Grace Is an author. a writer
OF romance. IN which the lovers spout
volcanoes OF love and the heroines pro-
test unending affection. Mr.. Walker was
not sentimental. and one day threw all
his wife's romances into the hre. She
cried for a week and then got the di-
vorce.
After she got divorce from Coffin
the last time she became infa ted with
Iayman. Mrs. Smell. etc. was once
wealthy Walker Jared rather better
than Conn and Laymsn. on the day she
married him she gave him $4,000.