The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-01
Young Wife's Divorce Suit
Brings Her Unenyiable
NOtOriety.
TRACKED TO SWELL HOTEL
Courtship Began en- ~Havemeyer
Estate, Near Ransom, in New
Jersey s. All Parties Con-
cerned Are Rich and
Prominent in Society.

NEW YORK, Oct. Miss Carlotta
Knopf, ~20-year-old daughter Ut August
Knopf, a millionaire leather merchant,
and herself one of the richest heiresses
of Riverside Drive, is named in a suit
for divorce brought by Mrs. Edith Gar
diner Miller, of Ardsley, against her
husband, Hugh Miller. The case came
up in the White Plains court yester-
day.
The plaintiff, daughter of George N.
Gardiner, of 1874 West End avenue and
Ardsley, charges that her two brothers,
with detectives in her employ, ran
sacked the Navarro Hotel on the night
of May q last and there found her hus-
band and the heiress together.
Miller Is the son of George w. Miller,
who was superintendent of insurance
for New York State from 1870 to 1872.
His brother is Andrew Miller, the club
man and steward of the Jockey Club.
Miller wooed his wife when she lived
with her father and sister Hilda on
the Havemeyer estate, heal RANSOM,
N. J. The marriage, three years ago,
was a very considerable society event.
and after a honeymoon of Europe, the
pair settled down at A West Forty
fifth street, where they lived happily
and entertained lavishly until the be-
| ginning of this year.
Then, Mrs. Miller alleges, she sud-
denly discovered that her husband was
becoming enamored of Miss Knopf, who
is as beautiful as she is rich and youth
full, and a leader of the younger social
set that populates Riverside Drive.
Neighbors of the Knopf mansion, at
90, on the drive, confirm the wife's
story, SO far as to admit that Miller
and the heiress were seen very often
together in that vicinity. Their chief
recreation was horseback riding, and
it was one of these rides. by the way,
that led to the institution of the suit.
Miller left his domestic establishment
late in March n took bachelor quar-
ters at the Hotel Seville, Madison ave-
nue. and Twenty eighth street. Mrs.
Miller went home to Ardsley, where she
consulted her father, and finally hired
four detectives from q ~well-known
bureau to watch her husband night and
day.
Mrs. Miller's attorney. Asa Bird Gar
diner, formerly district attorney and a
distant relative, says reports of Miller's
indiscretions were almost daily affairs.
But the real denouement, 1t is alleged,
came on the May night when the trail
ers somehow learned that q rendezvous
between the pair they were logging
had been arranged.
So that there could be no doubt at
all about the evidence. the detectives
brought with them Mrs. Miller's two
brothers, Bentley and George. This
coterie followed Miller from the Seville
to the Knopf mansion, where Miss Car
lotta greeted him warmly, they avow,
and called for two saddled horses and.
with him for escort, started out on a
ride. The searchers followed in two
hacks.
They say the couple spent several
hours al Durland's Academy-Miller
being not quite as good an equestrian
as his fair companion-and hen went
to Central Park after the former had
obtained a more certain stirrup grip.
They rode in the park until dusk, ac-
cording to the complaint of the wife;
Their back to the Knopf house, where
Miss Carlotta changed her habit for a
street dress and hurried downtown,
with Miller, to the Navarro.
The detectives and the two brothers
say they will testify that they were
forced to hurl sentinel porters way
from the apartments hat Miller had
taken. When they finally broke in, how
ever, they declare that he confessed
his guilt and begged them to go away
and spare the heiress.