Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-18
MISS MALONEY'S WOE
Wed Osborn to Escape Union
With Count.
DISLIkE0 TITLED NAN
She Did Net Regard Civil Wedding
as Binding.
TESTIMONY GIVEN IN COURT
Supreme Court Formally Annuls
Ceremony and Papal Court Ex-
pected to Do Likewise.
GIVEN IN COURT


her sudden marriage under an assumed
name with Arthur II. Osborn on December
IS 1905.
Miss Maloney's parents tried to arrange
marriage for her with Count Vanutelli.
nephew of Cardinal Vanutel In her
sworn testimony Miss Maloney does not
reveal the name of the titled foreigner
whom her parents favored as husband
for her. but she said he a guest at her
fathers home in Philadelphia during the
fall of 1905 and paid her noticeable atten-
tons.
romance were exposed to the public yes
terday. when all of the papers in her
successful suit for the annulment Of her
marriage with young Osborn were order
ed unsealed and placed on file by Justice
Gerard He signed the final decree an
nulling the marriage.
In view of the fact that the supreme
court of this state has declared that
there never was a legal marriage be-
tween Miss Maloney and young Osborn.
]. is expected the papal court in Rome
will take the same view of the matter.
especially as all of the evidence in the
case is that the two never lived together
as man and wife.
If the papal court does this Miss Ma
loney will be free to marry Samuel Clark
son, the young Engiishman with whom
she eloped early in 1907. Under the de-
cree signed yesterday she IS free to marry
Clarksen without violating the state law.
but until the papal court gives her re-
lease she cannot marry again under pain
OF accommodation.
Testimony in Case Interesting.
All the papers in the case were flied
as result of Justice Gerard's order.
The most interesting was tic report of
the testimony taken by Referee Daniel
F. Cohalan. Miss Maloney brought the
suit against Osborn January last.
through her lawyer. Augustin L. Humes
OF No. 20 Broad street. The summons and
C. Richie. who is the husband of Mar
garet Maloney. eldest sister of Helen.
Young Osborn had been a guest at the
Richie home in Lakewood often. Os-
January II. Referee Cohalan was APP
pointed January p and began taking
evidence ten days later. The last witness
was examined by the refer, April To-
Miss Maloney, then nineteen years old
and student at the Convent of the Wis
itation in Washington. and young Osborn,
Snen twenty years old and a student at
rrinceton. were married december 2S,
Peace John A. Boyd. Miss Maioney was
attended by Miss Stafford a school CHI,
All or the party gave fictitious names
MISS Maloney told the justice she was
years old: that her parents we're dead
and that she lived in Pittsburg Young
Osborn called himself Herbert Osborn
HIS full name is Arthur Her, TT Osborn
burg. Miss Stafford gave tie name OF
Marion Graham
Priest Wouldn't Marry Them.
The papers on file reveal the fact that
before going to Justice Boyd's house the
elOnpYS In
aroneck Catholic Church and asked the
priest to marry them. He declined be-
cause they were not members OF mis- par
ish. and told them to go to their own par
1sh and be married. 1t was their original
plan TO De married under their real names
When they went TO the priests house.
Osborn the papers show. is a Roman
Sa,nolc as wei as Miss Maloney. and
bofh felt they would not be married ac-
cording to the rules Of their church until
the ceremony was solemnized by one of
its priests.
The ceremony under false names by
justice OF the peace was hit upon as a
temporary expedient to render II imnos-
sfb'e for Miss Maloney's parents TO marry
her TO the Objectionable titled foreigner.
Inc young people planned to be married
second time by Catholic priest regard
ing the civil marriage simply as an extra
binder to their secret enga cement. which
had existed since the previous summer
when Osborn met Miss MaIoney at Spring
Lake. n. J.. where her father has a fine
country home Osborn, Miss Malonev
and Miss Stafford were taking a motor
trip through Westchester the day thew do
cided to get married Miss MaIoney's
mother and married sister being at the
Waldorf. WIG
Miss haloney the Chief Witness.
Miss Maloney appeared as a witness
before Referee Colahan January 81 last
and was examined by her lawyer. Mr.
Humes. He made her account for every
day she spent from December %. 1905 to
the last time she saw Osborn. to show
that they never lived together as man and
wife 70 corroborate her testimony he
called rs witnesses her mother her sis
ter, her brother-in-law. Mr. Richie: her
French maid and Sisters of the Vista
ton Convent Young Osborn corrobo-
rated her testimony in full. as did several
Princeton men who were with them at
different times
"nen called as witness Miss Ma
loney said she was member of the
Roman Catholic Church and respected
its laws. which she regarded as binding
upon herself. She had been in converts
In Paris and Washington. She was
asked
Had you before December % 1905,
formed any belief as to the effect Of lack
Il believed that lack Of consummation
in marriage did not constitute a mar
rage she replied.
She told of meeting Osborn in the sum-
ner of 1905
Had 4 Fuss the Next Day.
Mr.. Humes got her TO describe every
time she met Osborn after that, exactly
what happened and who was present
She told Of a fuss they had the day
after their marriage at the Waldorf,
when she wanted TO keep a previous en-
gagement for the theater and he wanted
her TO go with him
Mss Maloney told of Osborn seeing
her off 20 Europe in January, 1907. and
OF his failure to meet her when she
returned the following August. 1t was
during this European trip that the news
papers printed the fact that she had
eloped with Samuel Clsrkson. 1t was the
publication Of that romance that caused
Osborn, who had become a stock broker
on the circle to claim Miss Maloney
as his wife and make public the Mamaro-
neck wedding.
Miss Maloney was said yesterday to be
At Spring Lake. n. ]. Friends declared
that the reports Of her entering a Cana
dian convent or any other convent are
nonsense. Her father, in Philadelphia,
declined TO discuss the annulment of her
marriage.
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