The sun., 1908-07-10
YOUNG BALLOONST'S BRIDE
VINO Won HER MIDDLE AGED
WAY TO A BOYISH HEART.
Attachment for S5S.OOO stands That the
Hawieys Got on the Property Of Mrs.
Leyee, Formerly Miss Hawiey--st0ry
OF MORTGAGE Missing From safe.


Leyee, Formerly Miss IIawley STORY
OF Mortgage Missing From safe.
Details concerning the marriage OF Miss
Jeanie Hawley. sister of Alan II. Hawley.
the balloonist, and William II. Hawley, the
stock broker, to Charles Levee. a young
French aeronaut, have come TO light through
an application by Mrs. Levee to have set
aside the attachment for 748os.50 which
the Hawley brothers obtained against her
property In April last. The affidavits OF
Mrs. Leyee and her brothers and Of Levee
and several servants and tradesmen show
that the marriage led to a total breach OF
friendly relations between the newly mar
ried couple and the Hawleys and that
when Mrs. Levee returned from her honey
moon with the young balloon pilot her
brothers not only refused to recognize her
but sought to exclude her from the house
at az East Seventy street, where
she and the brothers have lived for years
and which she claims as her absolute prop
erty.
Mrs. Levee denies owing her brothers
anything they say that they do not
desire to disturb their sisters marital
felicity, but that they are really anxious
to get back from her moneys which they
advanced to her in good faith as loans.
1t develops also that Miss Hawley, when
she announced to her brothers that she
had been married by justice of the peace
to Levee in Jersey City on April last kept
back from them the fact that she had con-
tracted what she calls secret maria ge"
with Levee in January. In view Of this
the brothers now understand why Levee
was such constant and long staying visitor
at the Hawley house in the early months
of the year
In their application for the attachment
against their sisters property. which was
made on April IA, week after the Jersey
marriage and five days after she had left
on her bridal tour. the Hawleys asserted
as the legal ground for the attachment that
they believed their sister had gone to France
to take up a permanent residence there at
the home Of Levee which they gave at l56
Rue de Rivoli Paris.
She says that there was no foundation for
such a statement, that she never had any
intention Of remaining in France and that
1t Is not Levee. but his parents who 1--we at
the address given. Levee has made up his
nina. she says, to live in America. Levee
says the same thing. In reply the Hawleys
produce letter written some time ago by
Levee to A. Leo Stevens and a personal
visiting card, on both Of which Levees
address is given at 1853 Rue de Rivo. The
letter is somewhat amusing in its comments
on aeronauts and aeronautics. 1t reads:
My DEAR STEVENS: | have made a very
pleasant trip during the seven days The
sea was quite quiet. have seen de la Vaulx,
here and made Il trip with him and Mrs
Edgar. just little trip.
If you have not sold his balloon, be kind
enough as to send it here after having ia king
the hydrogen smell out. If you have sold it,
do as you told me for the money
s | hope you had successful and good time
in Franklin. How is the aerostation in New
York; Is Thomas always so stupid?
am trying to get you your pilot license,
but have to wait until next month Before
! leved New York | did forget to give you
some little nuts for the statescope. They are
at Rochelle place
Excuse. my dear Stevens, my poor En- glsh:
it is absolutely between u.s. With best re-
CARDS to Mrs. Stevens. believe me, yours
very truly, CHARLES LEvEE
The chief objection that the Hawlev
brothers have to Bevee is that he is only 23
years old and has no business or visible
means OF support except aeros tati,s, while
their sister is past 80 and the owner of real
estate in New York worth more than $3.50 900,
in addition to cash and securities, of which
she owns a comfortable amount.
Alan X. Hawley first made Levees ac-
quaintance in Paris through employing him
as a balloon pilot. Miss Hawley accom-
panied her brother and Levee on some of
their ascensions. That was last year, and
few months later Levee appeared in New
York, according to Hawley, and sent his
trunks and other baggage up to the Hawley
home. Hawley says that when he learned
of this which was not until after Levee had
called several times, he told his sister to have
the trunks removed at once, as he did not
propose to turn the house into storage
room for Levee. The trunks disappeared
from view, he says, but he has since learned
that his sister merely slowed them away in
garfet. The next thing Hawley noticed
was that Levee was calling very frequently.
and on three evenings running he found the
Frenchman and Miss Hawley sitting up
together after midnight. The third time
Alan spoke TO his sister, saying:
Jeanle. this thing ought to stop. 1t is
wholly unnatural and can lead to no good
end, You are old enough TO be this boys
mother. Unless this stops | shall leave the
house"
She promised to stop Levee's late visits,
he says but he has since learned that she
not only didn't stop them but actually re-
ceiyed Levee secretly. These facts assume
q different aspect, he admits. now that he
has learned of the secret marriage in Janu-
ary. which must have been performed
very shortly after Levee had arrived here
The grlevous part of the story to the
Hawleys Is that their sister is older than
they and that they have always looked
upon her as much of confirmed spinster
as they are confirmed bachelors. Alan
Hawley says that he and his brother started
life, two poor boys, as clerks in Wall Street,
and that after twenty years of hard work
they had accumu lated enough to enable
them to start in business for themselves.
When their mother died she left all she
owned, with the consent of the brothers,
to Jeanie. and as the brothers prospered
they delighted in max ing valuable pres
ents and profitable Investments and speou-
lations for their sister and in providing
her with more than enough to maintain
their home in luxurious style.
When she needed money for her own pur-
poses, they say, or in connection with her
real estate investments they willingly lent
IL to her, always on the tacit understanding
that the loans would be repaid on demand
If occasion for such demand should ever
arise But Of late years her calls on them
bad become so many, the brothers say,
tha they insisted on her giving them prom
issory notes or mortgages on which they
could fall back as security In this way,
they allege, they advanced her since 1904
$4,000 on promissory notes and $40 900 on
a mortgage, besides other sums aggregate
ing about $4,000, none of which she has
repaid, and they declare that when she left
the house after announcing her marriage