The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-17
TEN MILLIONS :
on A HUSBAND
Horsen1an's Wife, Who
Chose Him Against Paren-
tai Objection, Finally De
cides It Advisable to Give
Him Up and Get the For
tune She Can Thus Obtain
From a Dying but Obdur-
ate Father.

In a test of strength between hard
cash and tender love, what chance
has Cupid? Ask Mrs. Burke-Roche
Batonyi. of New York, who defied her
millionaire, father and married a pro-
fessional horseman two years ago.
An TIffmatum from her multi-mil-
Iionaire father, the famous Frank
Work, has induced her to renounce
her husband whom she married TWO
years ago and to promise to sign an
| agreement that neither she nor her
two sons will have anything more TO
do with this Aurel Batonyi society
whip, says a New York dispatch to the
| Philadelphia North American.
| Mrs. Batonyi. arrived in New York
Monday from Newport, and 1T is said
| that arrangements have ben made
| for signing the papers at the bedside
of her father. 1t may be Frank
Works deathbed, for at his ages
years-the slightest illness is serious.
| The old man knows, this, but at the
brink of the grave he is as implacable
| in his hatred of his Son-in-law as ever
he was.
He sent word to his daughter, once
his favorite and the very apple Of
his eye, that unless she consented to
give up Batonyi forever, he would cut
her off without a dollar, and also her
two sons, who have stood by their
mother in the family quarrel that has
shaken the whole 400.
1t has been a hard year for Mrs.
Burke Roche Batonyi. Her father had
oil o1o he
magnificent home at Newport, which
and in which his beautiful daughter
reigned as a social queen.
Society Was Sympathetic.
Society had been very sympathetic
in its treatment of Mrs. Batonyi, but
it could not quite lose sight of the
fact that Mrs. Batonyi, without her
fathers money, would lose much of
her attractiveness.
Her own daughter, Mrs. Arthur S.
Burden, formerly Miss Cynthia Burke
Roche, took the side of the grand
father and would have nothing to do
with the professional horseman.
The income of $50, 900 a year, which
Work had allowed his daughter, was
cut off, and to a woman of Mrs. Ba-
a
dreadful calamity.
Then, too, her SONS were arriving at
the age where they must be provided
for, and the mothers heart smote her
at the thought of allowing her own
happiness to stand in the way of their
future.
Love Versus Cash.
She loves Batonyi with her whole
NJ Rat
talking over the matter they decided
that they had no right to sacrifice the
lives of the boys. Their BOYS could
not be permitted to stand in the way
of S10,000,00O or more. Love was only
sentiment after all. Ten million |
was glittering and potent reality.
So they wept little, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Bantonyi, assured each other of their
undying affection for each other
vowed never to love anyone else. and |
separated. Batonyi is now living in |
bachelor quarters
Several years after the divorce |
Mrs. Burke-Roche, who maintained All |
her former prestige in society. began /
TO take riding lessons of Aurel Ra- /
tonyi, who was an instructor in one
OF the academies there. He was a |
dashing, good looking fellow. was
said to have fought a duel once and
rode horse with princely grace.
Batonyi came to America from,
Hungary in 1888, and had ALREADY
been divorced from Hattie L. Williams
a school teacher. when he met Mrs.
Burke-Roche. His real name is Ar
thur Cohn. but to please his first wife
he testified in court, he adopted the
name of Batonyi, and hitched the title
of Count" to it.
On August 8, 1905. Mrs Rurke-
Roche and her riding master were |
married by Alderman Hamburger in
the hotel Empire. There were onIv
two witnesses, Batonyi's LAWYER and
a notary public. The wedding was
Kept secret for several months
Ihen the bride and bridegroom sailed |
Tor Europe, and the day following tbis
advertisement appeared in the news.
papers:
Monsieur and Madame LeopoId Pa
tonyl, of Budapest. Hungary, announce
.ne marriage OF their son, Aurel. to
Mrs. Frances Roche"
Millionaire in a Raoe.
The old father was in a tor.-;,.
rage He gave out a short. crisn
statement TO the press that he had
nothing to do with his daurbter's
plans, and did not care to discuss the
marriage. 'no
Ihen came the battle of love and
dollars. The favorite dauehter,s IN.
come was fret ont dor-. -, :, 40 |