The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-06-06
VILE SHORTLY ESSAY
SIXTH MATRIMONIAL
VENTURE
TO WRITE MODERN NOVEL
Bride Has Ample Fund of
Love Ideas.

Chicago, June e.-The penchant for
yariegated matrimony that has given
Mrs. Grace Coffin Walker -Conn-
Layman's record Of FIVE marriages and
five divorces is likely to lead her to the
altar for another mymeneal experiment
/ Chicago friends of the veteran divorcee
/ have received word from Los Angeles,
Cal. that she IS wearing her sixth dia-
mond solitaire, and viii soon lead her
sixth blushng husband to the altar.
Mack Love is the significant name OF
the young Californian woh expects to
add me next INK TO the already elongat-
ed name Of Mrs. Grace, etc. The we'd
ding it is sdd. win be solemnized in a
quiet way, and the honeymoon win be
spent in writing modern historical
novel I'm which an American love story
will be the leading feature. The bride
and groom it is rumored, viii collabor-
ate she furnishing the ideas and ex-
periences and he does the writing
Loves Labor Lost Many Times" has
been suggested as title.
According to a Los Angeles woman
who retailed the news Of the engage
ment 20 bosom friend Of the matrimon-
! iai expert. Mr. Love is handsome
boy, about q years old, with little
money and who tries to write, but no
one finds it out except when told about
." Friends Of the prospective bride
profess to hnd in his name a hopeful
augury
1t was only six months ago that the
daNNlrco specialist obtained the decree
liberating her from Perkins A. Layman
"a former hotel clerk, who was her ffth
husband. on this occosion. December
3. 1903, sne broke an former records by
getting the divorce in one minute and
twenty seconds on the ground that Lay
man packed his trung like an Arab and
silently stole away.
shortly after the divorce is said 10
have found solace in the love Of Love.
He proposed a few weeks ago, much
married woman took a few friends into
her confidence and asked for advice
Results Caras are looked for.
Although she is barely &c years OF
age. Mrs. SMELL Coffin Coffin Walker
Cofin-Layman. with her total Of ten
matrimonial transactions. has establish
ed record that probably never has
been poraneled AS a unique feature
Of her career she has been married fve
times TO three men, and has been di-
vorced five times on as many different
causes.
She was married 20 Frank Nixon Cof-
hn the ranking ex-husband, 1854 when
Ian. a. r.r,lsaesftr tr
of the mgubrious name was a versatile
young man AS dancing master he
was regarded as combination Of Beau
Brummel and the Apollo Belyidere by
his girl pupils on the West Side, where
as a coachman he was a model Of dig
nifty and grace The marriage was
against the wishes OF the girls father
Amos J. Smell the millionaire banker.
whose name become famous after he
was murdered Ga February, 1855, The
murder is still one OF Chlcago's unsolved
mysteries
For ten years the Smell family kept
in the umelghts through the publicity
given TO the search for the murderer
and the litigation over the murdered
mans viii. then with fame on the
wane Mrs. snen-Conin applied for a di-
vorce on the ground OF incompatabnity.
land was granted # and the custody Of
her three children. -Four years later
her eldest son fen in, and on his oying
bed oegged his parents to become re-
conciled. They granred his wish and
We're welded again al mis- bedside. The
boy died and four months later the Cof-
fins were divorced for the second time,
, grounds, INVESTIGATION.
Next year the woman met james c.
Walker then clerk n the Virginia
hotel He had "a tenor voice that charm
od tine uesolate divorcee She sent him
10 Europe 10 have il trained and on their
wedding day made him a present OF $50,
600. Walker went into business instead
OF into opera, however and became
manager of the Fountain house in Wau-
kesha. In September. 1901. his wife sued
him for divorce on the ground Of inhu-
name treatment.
She had written few short stories
and the husband was said 20 have be-
come insanely Jealous OF her imaginary
heroes. When he stuffed several man-
uscripts into the stove Mrs. Walker de-
cided TO secure her freedom again.
Within a month the divorcee was
welded for the third time 10 Coffin and
was separated four hours after the cere-
monY Mystery has been attached 70 this
transaction and the cause has never
been made public The Conins were rec
married al south side church at $3.50
in the afternoon. The bride renaired
J 10 the Meropole hotel while the thrice
blessed groom went downtown on busi-
: ness a woman called, After she left
Mrs Coffin gave Instructions that Conin
was not 10 be admitted TO her apart-
mnets. A divorce followed in Novem-
, Der,
Ia the meantime the mother Of the
divorcee had died, elaving S0oooS
70 be divided among three children
Z Extmvagance depleted the fortune thai
came 10 Mrs Coffin She was sued Dl
: diamond merchants. by cigarette deal
ers and for board bills al California res
sorts She nft Chicago and her beau
tifm home near Racine Wis, and wen'
10 RiVcrdale. Cal. where sine met Per-