Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-15
CLUBMAN WEDS,
DIVORCES, WEDS
AGAIN IN YEAR
If. L. MAGAW AGAIN MARRlES
SOPHIA COOS
TALE OF RoMANcEAND INTRIGUE
REVEALED
Well Known AngeIeno Has NuptlaI
Knot Tied Once More When
Wife Tells Story Of
Separation

The matrimonial ventures of Freder-
lex L. Magaw, 81 years of age, capital-
list and prominent member of the JON
athan club, and Miss Sophia L. Coos,
21 and pretty, have been brief in point
of time-less than one year. in fact
but into that period have been crowded
wedding, an annulment, an apparent
kidnapping and another marriage, the
last taking place yesterday in the Office
of Justice E. e. Selph.
Should the characters in any one or
the most interesting yellowbacks step
from their pages and carry out their
plots of intrigue and love they could
hardly appeal with more force to the
reader of fiction than the story Of the
courtship and what followed in the Ma
gaw family of two.
Magaw and Miss Coos were first
married at Riverside, September 16,
1907. Two weeks later Magaw said he
discovered circumstances which made
1t impossible for them to live together,
and five months later he filed a suit for
annulment, which was granted March
IS last.
Explains How 1t Was Done
How this annulment was secured is
told by Mrs. Magaw in an affidavit
filed April 21, accompanying which was
the sworn statement of @. H. Van
Dorm of Newark, N. J., the supposed
friend of the wife, and acknowledged
abettor in the husbands efforts to null
lily the work of the officiating clergy
man.
For his work Van Dorm says he re-
ceived $3.50. "Magaw came to my home
in Newark on February and told me
he wanted to get rid of his wife," says
Van Dorm. II told him If he aban-
doned her in New Jersey he was in
danger of being imprisoned for six
months. He acknowledged he had
come to me believing 1 would help him
in his predicament on the ground of
old friendship, and l told him the best
thing he could do was to go back to
California and let the proceedings be
heard there"
Van Dorm says he believed the repre-
Sentations made by Magaw and ac-
companied the latter to Los Angeles.
arriving February 81 A few days later
he was called to the office of the at
torneyS representing Magaw, who, he
says, told him they wanted Mrs. Ma
gaw taken out of the city and kept
away until after the court had en-
tered default judgment in the an
nulment suit. Eighty dollars, he says,
was given him to defray travelling and
hotel expenses, and on March he in
uuceu IHS young woman TO accompany
him to Long Beach.
Had Woman's Diamonds
Van Dorm also says Magaw gave him
the diamonds taken from his wife, to
prevent their recovery by her. After
the suit was filed Mrs. Magaw says her
husband feigned illness and went to
the California hospital, where admis-
sion was refused her. He, however,
kept up his negotiations with Van
Dorm, and on one visit of the latter to
the hospital gave him $100 expense
money. Magaw's instructions to Van
Dorm to secure the copy of the COM
plant and summons in the hands of
his wife were carried out, and it was
due to his advice that she did not con-
suit a lawyer. Following the trip to
Long Beach, Mrs. Magaw says Van
Dorm gave her a ticket to San Diego,
thus further delaying her opposition to
the suit filed by her husband.
1t was not until month after the
annulment had been granted that Mrs.
Magaw placed her case in the hands of
Attorney Chester Smith, who imnedi-
ately took her affidavit and that of Van
Dorm and asked the court to set aside
its judgment. In her afffdavit Mrs.
Magaw says she is i'll and unable 10
earn her own living, and places her
husbands wealth at from $4,000 to
$40, 900.
The marriage license was secured
yesterday morning, Justice Selph per
forming the ceremony a few minutes
later.