The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-08
SHE'LL TRY II OVER.
Mrs. Marian MacVicar Morris Fears
Her First Divorce Was Illegal.

In district court today, the echo of
one of the divorce sensations of the
city, was filed in the shape of a sec
ond divorce suit. almost identical with
the original suit Marian M. Morris
brings suit against William Henry
Morris, for absolute divorce The
social element of Topeka knows that
Marian NJ. Morris, formerly Marian
MacVicar got divorce from William
Henry Morris, alias Vincent
Graham his professional nom de
plume. November. 1905 This element
may therefore wonder why Mrs. Nor
rfs is filing second suit. The rea-
son is that some question has been
raise. as to whether or not the pub
LEGATION of Mrs. Graham's notice in
the first suit. was legal The law says
that the notice shall be published for
three weeks. Mrs. Graham published
her notice in a daily paper for three
weeks. in the daily edition 1t was
known that Morris, an English music
teacher, would do anything in his
power to participate in his wife's
property. Therefore, after enjoying
two years of relief from marital rela-
lions which were anything but en-
5oyable, Mrs. Morris brings second
suit, Identical with the first, and this
time she will publish the notice in a
way which cannot be disputed. The
question raised, was whether the law
could be construed to mean that the
publication should be in every issue of
the paper for three weeks. Because
she published only in one issue each
week, her attorneys have decided up
on the present move.
In this petition, as in the one of two
years ago, Mrs. Graham gives a few
pertinent facts concerning the habits
Of her imported husband. He is
charged with neglect of duty, and she
further says that because of his idle
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to support herself and contribute to
the support of the defendant out of
money which she received from her
parents. That he was habitual
drunkard, and that she had to send
him to a sanitarium, and that he had
no property, real or personal, except
his wardrobe when he married her.
Vincent Graham" whose real
name was w. H. Morris, was a vocal
teacher of considerable ability, and a
social lion when he first alighted in
Topeka. In 1900 he married Miss
Marian McVicar, whose wealth and
position in society, aside from her per-
sonal charm, entitled her to better re-
suits. Having thus secured himself
from the wolf" the English vocalist
began cutting wide swath in the
social plane wherein his wife had no
part. 1t was his we'll known custom
to go out at night, and after drinking
all he could carry without wheels I'M
der him, wander homeward, taking up
a collection OF bottled goods along the
way. When he reached the stage of
delicious triangles,'' his wife sent him
to a jag" cure institution Mean
while the scion of an English house of
near-nobility lived off the bounty of
his wife's family, and lived high. Mrs.
Morris stood this continuously for five
years before throwing off the marital
yoke.
Morris, or Graham" has returned
to- England. but some overt move on
his part has raised the question of the
legality of the former divorce, AMI this
time the little details will be carefully
attended to, -