Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-12
NO MALONEYCLUE YET
Father of the Girl Is in Mon
treaI Today.
TALKS WITH LAWYER BONN
Mr.. and Mrs. Richie Are Searching
in London.
OSBORN SAW MIR. TANNING
Thinks Helen May Just Have Been
Careless About Mentioning Her
Marriage at Home.
TALKS WITH LAWYER BONN
OSBORN SAW MIR. TANNING
Special Dispatch to The Star.

cptCidl DiSpdtCu ~ lne Quar-
MONTREAL, Quebec, October 12-Mar-
tin Maloney arrived in this city from
New York this morning, his intention be-
ing to interview A L. BONN. the attor-
ney who arranged for the marriage OF
Helen Maloney and Samuel Clarkson in
Montreal October 3.
The fact that his runaway daughter
and Clarkson were passengers on the En-
press Of Ireland from Quebec on Friday
last and that they travelled between tina,
port and Liverpool In the utmost seclu'
Cunningham were not known to Mr.. Ma.
loney until he arrived here this morning.
Searching in London.
NEW YORK, October 1.-THE disap-
pearance of Miss Helen Maloney. who Is
supposed to have left New York week
ago with Samuel C1arkson. a young Eng
lishman, is still an unsolved mystery.
according to William J. Tanning, counsel
for Martin Maloney, father of the miss
ing girl.
Cranberry B. Richie. formerly OF
Georgetown. D. c., and Mrs. Richie. SIS
ter of Miss Maloney. are now in London
endeavoring to locate the missing couple.
said Mr.. Tanning today, but nothing has
been heard from them. 1t was thought
that possibly the couple had gone abroad
on the steamer Majestic and Mr.. and
Mrs Richie sailed on the Baltic, which
was the first steamer leaving New York
after the report became current that the
supposed clippers had gone abroad. We
know nothing, however. of the couple
whereabouts, except what we have
learned through the newspapers"
Arthur H. Osborn, who claims Re was
married to Miss Maloney two years ago
at Mamaroneck, called on Mr.. flaming
yesterday at his office.
The story of the marriage he tod me
was substantially as has been published.
said Mr.. Tanning today. Il have only
his word for it. however, as he had no
what know of Helen I am inclined to
believe she considered the Osborn mar
riage more in the nature OF lark than
anything else. She has been reared strict
ly in the Catholic faith and therefore a
marriage by a Justice Of the peace would
not be regarding by her as binding. She
evidently did not think the matter of suf-
ficient Importance at least to mention II
to her family. Osborns calls at the home
of Miss Maloney have been infrequeni
since the time of the alleged marriage,
and she had seen little of him..
About the Prior Marriage.
1t became known today that Sasnue
Clarkson, the young Englishman who dis
appeared at the same time that Helen
Maloney, the heiress, was missing from
Martin Maloney's home at Spring Lake
N. j., consulted Percival G. Barnard. q
lawyer at AZ Broadway. this city. about
the validity of midnight marriage con-
tracted "in fun Mr.. Barnard saw
Clarkson alone and had not up to today
told any one of the visit.
1t also appears that either Miss Mr..
loney or Clarkson must have been ir
communication either Immediately before
or since their disappearance from Spring
Lake, with Arthur H. Osborn, the young
Princeton graduate. who says that he was
married to Miss Maloney at Mamaronecl
last spring.
Immediately after the disappearance o.
Clarkson and Miss Maloney, however, thu
fact that Clarkson had visited an attorney
became public.
known Of the fact was through a com
munica ton from either Miss Maloney Of
Clarkson. Friends Of the two believe tina
either just before or just after the disap
pearance Of the pair one of them wrote t.
Osborn, telling him of the facts and ask
ing him not to put any obstacles in the
way Of an annulment of the marriage IL
fun at Mamaroneck.
"Clarkson came to see me on Friday
September q, the day before he and Miss
Maloney disappeared from Spring Lake.
said Mr.. Barnard today. HE questioned
me about a question of matrlmony. HI
put a hypothetical question to me. HI
said that a man and girl had been Out
in an automobile and the automobile hat
broken down. Then he said they both got
married, taking 1t as a Joke. Then he hes
ftated and said that at least the girl tool
it as a joke; perhaps the man had not.
"We looked up the law together and
told him that the marriage was valid, bu'
l thought that 1t could be annulled. When
he left I went to the law library and
found that the case was as I had stated
1t. All the decisions were one way, and ir
one case lat was analogous to the one he
cited the marriage was held to be binding
but subject to annulment.
81 did not hear anything more about my
client until I read Of the elopemen with
Miss Maloney.
II cannot imagine how Osborn came te
know that Clarkson had ever consulted
me- None but he and I knew OF his visit
to me-.