The San Francisco call., 1904-07-22
CUILELESS GIRL
FORCED TO We'd
Blanche Gore Says She Mar
ried William I'll. Meyer to
Protect Her Good Name
WANTS UNION ANNULLED
Nurses Divorced Man at Lick
House and Declares He I'M
posed on Her Innocence

An unophisticated maiden acting as
nurse for a friend, who was the father
of a family but divorced from his wife,
was made the victim of a cruel play
upon honor, according to the complaint
filed yesterday in the Superior Court
by Blanche Gore Meyer for an annul-
ment of her marriage with William H.
Meyer
Her story is a tale of the wiles of
constituencies man. The Lick House
was the scene of the affair although
it is not mentioned in the complaint.
Inquiry made of her attorney, G. Gun
zendorfer, discloses that the parties are
not of prominence outside OF their own
circles. The lawyer says the girl is all
that she represents herself to be in the
way of maidenly innocence, and that
the man in the case is without prop
erty means or employment and his
reputation is nil. He is said to be
citizen of New York and to have lived
there on West One Hundred and Twen-
ty-eighth street.
An insDection of the records of the
local courts developed the fact that on
April 10 Meyer was divorced by his
wife. Grace A. Meyer, and that she OBJ
tanned the custody of their two chill
dren.
In her suit for annulment Blanche
Gore Meyer tells a story stranger than
fiction. She says that on July Meyer
was temporarily domiciled at hotel in
San Francisco. He pretended to be i'll
and sent for her to come and nurse
him. Believing him to be in need Of
her attention, she went to the hotel
and remained with him for several
hours. doing the good offices seemingly
demanded by his condition. Finally,
believing that her presence was no
longer needed, she prepared to leave the
apartments, but Meyer insisted that she
remain with him. Under his compulsion
she did remain throughout the night.
DISGRACED HERSELF.
On the following day the man is said
to have represented to her that as she
had spent the night in his apartments
she was disgraced in the eyes of the
world, and although nothing improper
had happened it would not De oeneYed
that she was innocent
Being only q years old and unused
to the ways of the world" she says
that she believed his statements and
was overwhelmed with grief and an
guish He insisted that she should
marry him to save her reputation. She
declares that he made the representa-
tions for the purpose of notifying her
spirit and SnaulnS neI, anu pinOCO
her in a false position in order to COM
pel her to marry him. He declared she
could only remove the stigma by be-
coming his wife, and believing this she
consented. They were united on July
II. Immediately she discovered the
falsitv and fraud of his conduct, and
now. ten days after the ceremony, she
seeks legal separation, averring that
they have never sustained the relation
of husband and wife.
Ada r. Duncan. who sued Benjamin
2. Duncan Of w. B. Cluff & Co. for di-
vorce on sensational grounds, and
whose case has since appeared in the
Police Court by reason of the violent
actions of her brother-in-law, yester-
day began suit in the Superior Court
TO recover from w. c. Duncan, her
husbands brother, the value of $1,000
worth of furniture alleged to have been
removed from the family home on
June s, 1903. Mrs. Duncan also filed
supplementary complaint TO her suit
for divorce, alleging the brother-in-iaw
and Duncan's sister, Eva, were in pos
session of $4,000 cash belonging to Dun
can and $4,000 worth of community
property.