The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-20
.EL0PEO TWICE
NEVER MARRIED
PHILADELPHIA HElRESS HAS HER
MARRIAGE ANNULLED, ANY
WAY AND NOW SHE CAN
MARRY.
PHILADELPHIA,

the expiration today of the three
months which must elapse between the
rendering of decision of annulment
of marriage and it's final confirmation
Miss Helen Maloney, the Philadelphia
heiress who twice eloped. each time
with different man, and was adjudgeJ
| by the courts to be, after all, unmar
| ried. is now free to enter in earnest
the bonds of matrimony with the man
of her choice Friends of the family
say that Samuel B. Clarkson, the
Young Englishman with whom Miss
Maloney eloped to Montreal some
months ago. is the real possessor OF
the heart of the fair daughter of Mar
uuis Martin Maloney, the papal noble
man. and that the ceremony when
will make the twain one will be per-
| formed shortly.
When Miss Maloney becomes Mrs.
| CIarkson, a tangled matrimonial skeln
which has been the talk of two CONT
nents will be finally Strengthened out
For months the society of Philadelphia.
New York and the summer resorts has
been discussing the mOoted question
as to whether Miss Maloney was real
+, ly Miss Maloney, or Mrs. Osborne or
Mrs. Clarkson. Now the matter is to
be settled and society is breathing
great sigh of relief.
Today marks the expiration of three
months since the handing down of the
decree annulling the mock marriage
Of Miss Maloney to Arthur Herbert
Osborne of Mamaroneck.
Friends of the Maloney family as
sert that the annulment in fact is not
an annulment at all. since they main
tain that the ceremony through which
Miss Maloney went with young Or
borne was simply pleasantly and was
not considered in the light of true
marriage by either of the participants.
The court proceedings were brought
| to satisfy public opinion. following the
notoriety occasioned by Miss Maloney's
| trip to Montreal.
Ever since Miss Maloneys affairs
| became public said w. j. Tanning
LAWYER and confidential friend of Mar
| tin Maloney the family had always
contended that there had been no mar
riage with Osborne. The courts
proved they were right in that conten-
| ton.
1.-THE application to the courts for its
annulment was in no way an admis-
sion that there had been a marriage.
That was merely the legal form which
was necessary in such a case. There
was no other method of procedure. In
the strict sense. this was not an annul-
ment; because there was nothing to
annul. The courts decreed that there
had been no marriage.
There had been some sort of cere-
mony between Miss Maloney and Ar
thur H Osborne before Justice Boyd.
but it was only part of a Christmas
| festivity lark. There had been no in
tent to marry. 1t was therefore no mar
riage. and had never for single mo-
ment been considered a marriage either
| by Miss Maloney or Mr.. Osborne.
There was no need for her to wait
for the confirmation of the courts de-
cree Had it been an annulment in
! the ordinary sense, delay for the con-
firmation would have been necessary.
But Miss Maloney might have married
! the day after the court sat, had she so
pleased, or at any time before, for that
matter. The court held that she had
always been free to marry Clarkson.
There has been no trouble with any
church which cauld make us delay.
1t is not true that the pope refused to
been any petition to the pope. There
has never, in the opinion of the family,
been anything to petition the pope to
dispense.
'"The petition for the annulment of
the alleged marriage was brought only
because of the notoriety the elopement
brought to the family. 1t was merely
to satisfy the public by means of the
highest legal authority that there had
never been any marriage. The family
had no need of such declaration. ex-
cept to put an end definitely to the
statement that had been made that
marriage had taken place
Miss Maloney is now, and always
has been, in the position of any single
young woman seeking to enter matri-
mony for the first time"