The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29
The BRIDEGROOM A CRIMINAL.
MARRIAGE or MISS MARY MOORE
or BROOKLYN ANNULLED.
It Was a Fashionable AFFAIR on New Years
Day in I0Ol-AmdayIts Convince JUS
tice Burr That Lewis Luke McGllnn
Was Then q Fugitive From Justice.

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The m arriage of Miss Mary Moore, a
daughter of Edward 4. Moore Of Ill Pros
poet Park West, Brooklyn. a member of
the New York and New Jersey Transports
ton Com pany, TO Lewis Luke McGlinn,
which was solemnized in st. Augustine's
Catholic church, in Sixth avenue and Ster-
ling place, on New Years day, 1901. was
annulled yesterday by Supreme Court
Justice Joseph A. Burr, sitting in Cham
bers in Brooklyn.
Although the marriage was a very fash
ionable one and attracted much attention,
q sen ga tional incident. which occurred q
few hours after the ceremony and which
resulted in the immediate and permanent
separation of the bride and bridegroom,
was not revealed until the private hearing
in the annulment proceedings before JUS
tice Burr yesterday.
The history OF the case as presented by
Lawyers Ehrinberg and Name, counsel
for the plaintiff, is as follows. In October,
1900, Miss Moore and Lewis Luke McGlinn
met for the first time at a social gathering
in Manhattan. Miss Moore was then in
her twenty-irst year, while McGlinn was
about five or six years older. The person
who introduced them to each other repre-
sented McGlinn as a lawyer with fine pros
poets and as belonging to a good family
in the upper part of the State. McGlinn s
attentions to Miss Moore became marked
from the instant Of their acquaintance
and he was a frequent visitor at her home
in brooklyn.
He pushed his suit with great ardor, and
so adroitly managed to conceal his real
character both from the young woman
and her father that no objection was in
terposed to his proposal that the marriage
be celebrated on January l, less than three
months after their acquaintance had been
formed. While the preparations for the
marriage were in progress McGlinn daily
sent letters from his supposed law Office
at 392 Greenwich street to his attianced
and did not let a day pass that he did not
make a visit to her home on the Park Slope,
in Brooklyn.
The church was thron ged with visitors
to the ceremony, which was followed by a
big house reception. There were profuse
floral decorations, which the bridegroom
insisted on furnishing at his own expense,
but the bill for which, amounting to nearly
81 900, he never paid.
1t CHANGED, according to the story revealed
before Justice Burr, that an uncle of the
bridegroom, who had not been invited to
the ceremony. happened to pass the church
while it was in progress and through Curl
osity entered.
He was dumfounded when he recognized
in the bridegroom his nephew, McGlinn,
who is a fugitive from justice and has been
discarded by his family. The uncle before
tho dam ~ t,ro pf tho UiSifnTS from the rhuTpD
, learned who the bride was and also where
she lived. The same evening after the
wedding reception was over and the bride
and bridegroom were preparing to take
their departure on their honeymoon trip
the uncle made his appearance at the house
He denounced his nephew az an ilnpostor,
30 far as his standing as a lawyer is
concerned, and a criminal.
The bridegroom admitted all the charges
made by his uncle and, hurriedly putting
on his hat and coat, fled from the house,
Jumping into the carriage that had been
awaiting him and his bride, he disappeared,
On the same night he took fight from the
city, and ever since his whereabouts have
been unknown. II was some time before
the proceedings for the annulment of the
marriage were instituted, and it was only
a few months ago that the plaintiff received
permission to nave the complaint served
by publication. 80 that the secret of Miss
Moore's unhappy marriage has been con-
fined for such a long period to a very small
number of her friends.
Among the afidavits submitted to Justice
Burr was one from Homer S. Cummings, a
former Mayor Of Stamford, Conn, in which
MoGlinn was accused Of forging his name
TO checks amounting to 1900 and of being
a fugitive from justice from that State,
and one from Louis Brenecke, a former
employer Of McGlinn, charging him with
81, 900 defalcation. No defence was inter-
posed, and at the close of the hearing
Justice Burr said:
"As long as the marriage was not con-
summated, sufficient fraud has been proved
to Justify me in annulling the marriage
When called on last night Mr.. Moore de-
clined to give the nam of McGlinn's
uncle or any further particulars in regard
to the case.