Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-21
SENSATIONAL ELEMENTS.
Mixed Marital Affairs Of Prima Donna
Nordica.

New York. April CA new and
starting chapter was added. yesterday.
TO the Nordlca- Doeme divorce proceed
inSs. in which Herr Zoltan Doeme, the
Hungarian tenor and former Austrian
cavalry officer, is seeking in the su-
preme court to set aside the interlocu-
tory decree OF absolute divorce secured
by Nine. Lillian Nordica. SAYS the
American. This came in the form Of
a report that singer, first husband,
FREDERICK "A. Cover. the wealthy in
ventor. who was said to have lost his
life in 1887 while attempting to cross
the English channel in il balloon, had
been located in Paris.
This. on the authority of n LAWYER
VINO was retained in disbursing the
Cover $3oG,a00 estate. is said to have
been Il primary reason fer the great
rriina DONNA wishing divorce from
Herr Docmc.
Nine. NordlCa WAS said at her apart-
lncntS at 18th street ana Madison ave
nue. to be out Of the city, Yesterday.
Attorney james Russell Solcy. her
counsel, declined TO affirm or deny that
the possibility of +. A. Cover helms.
alive prompted the recent divorce nro
ccedings.
Mr.. Solely said, however that , bi,.
surprise would be in store for the other
side in case Herr Doeme through At
torlIcy George Gordon Hastings. made
any such accusations as have been
threatened when the case is heard by
Justice Mclean. next Thursday.
This reported discovery of Frederick
Cover furnishes Il remarkable parallel
between this AMI the mysterious Garth
case in which Banker. Granville w
Garth disappeared from q steamer last
Christmas in mid-Occan as wen rs ,ho
Dodge Morse divorce case.
Cover WAS Il business aSsoriatc IF
Alexander Graham Rell, ana his accu-
mulate1 fortune since his Reported
death amounts To several million dol
lars. Scores of his relatives and
friends have maintained that Cover
survived the balloon expedition.
AS late as July. 1891. he WAS reported
I" have been seen in London. and about
the same time the same report came from
Paris. According to the author of the
present report. Cover made himself
known to AN old friend in Paris about
plated an carly visit to this country
lie married Nine. Nordict in Paris in
lHS2 and three years later she began pro-
tccdlnGS for Il legal separation. Before
a decision was reached his death was re-
ported and Nine. Nordica received so 00
from his estate
New York April 2o-..Thcrc will bo no
sensational disclosures in the Nordic:,-
Deem" divorce suit when the application
of Herr Docmc to set aside his wife's in
t"rlocutorY decree comes up for argument
before Justice Mclean in the supreme
court on Thursday"
This unqualified statement was made to
a World reporter, last night, BY George
Gordon Hastings of No. 10 West 23rd
street. counsel for Herr Zoltan Docmc
The application is made on two
GROUNDS" continued Mr., Hastings: mon
residence and collision. Thee are tn.
only two questions that Justice Mclean
Will have To pass upon. As to the first
point. Herr Doemc is prepared to show to
the satisfaction of the court that neither
himself nor Nine. NOrdica is resident of
this country. Their acknowledged home
IS Munich in the Kingdom of Bavaria. If
this be so, then no American court had
the right to sever their marital rrla-
tons
will be even more easily proved When
Herr Docmc was served with the ori1;i-
nal papers in his wifc's divorce suit he
was very i'll man. In fact. he was 50 i'll
'i"'' "''7 ''ii iiihio,' VI IL piiNhtt H'iHI-
tarum in this city. At the same time he
learned that his hank accounts. amount
ing to S6.@D, had been attached. lie had
not another cent. He had no way to turn
for help.
Give me s2o,ooO and allow me to get a
divorce and ] will release the ether SIG.
600 to YOU to do with rs YOU like" was the
of Nine NOrdica.
Under this pressure Herr Docmc did
not defend his wifc's suit. and she Sc
cured Il divorce. Since that time he has
recovered his health; has come into his
normal senses and naturally wishes to
have the intcrlOcutory decree set aside.
in doing so he acknowledges that Their"
was COLLISION in the first place. and his
affidavit shows that he was party to II"
Mr. Hastings said that the mention Of
name will he disclosed hv tho hcarinG,"
is Il silly report as no such person figures
in any Of the papers filed in tho case.