The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-09
STILL THE WIFE
Of GUGGENHEIM
action Started in Chicago to
Set Aside the Divorce
Obtained in 1901.
ooTH PARTIES REMARKED
OBLIGATIONS IN FAMILY AZ
euss OF SHELTER MAoNATE.

.....-,, lime S.-Judge HOnore to-
----5.-ed William Guggenheim OF
pay -5-raIIad shelter trust, and Grace
L.' ,,.--ganbeim. TO show cause why
o. 5iTorce secured in this city in 1901
L-,,r5 not be set aside
'ir-5-srF p. Dunno. former mayor OF
80 who issued the divorce de-
5.bsu Judge i'm the circuit court,
.--.-..-sntrd the cOmplainant-Iface b.
l,slt.--s4baim-aud appeared in court
-.s ave afidavits alleging that the d.
80 WAS secured by fraud.
H. Duuue declared that the decree
f-.7fduIant- as neither party was
go resident of Illinois at the llIiis'
% mfsrepresentattons had Deeh
- m Mrs. Gussenheim TO get her 10
10 for divorce The complainant also
.5srras that Mr. Guggenheim and her
.--DDosed attorney, Louis werner OF
- y,rL construed TO practice a rraud
I'm the court She turJheI sLd 1o7soo Una
~ v-ss given aIimOny Of Sl5V,O9V, OF
sle .t. Eer attorney obtained Sl2,50o.
Biggest One Of the Bunch
,,-s Guegeuheim further swore that
"a b.e1 represented to her that the
s.fs7dsn4 vas the weakest and least
U-----tsrt member of the Guggenheim
NH while. in fact, the complain
-r+ s1ve he iS the ablest OF seven
f.-,,rsrs and the chief originator and
,.,,girezs head of the great combination
NJ mining and smelling interests. she
eIso ADDS that his personal wealth IS
-robabIv more than S3,5OO,OOO-
~ CompIaiuant has been married
.t-l. tirnes and has figured in an equal
...,-,be- ,r divorce suits. Both parties
t' he suit after the 1901 decree, re
,,.srrird Mr. Guggeuheim marrying
Aimee Lillian Steinberger- Inc com
claimants FIRST husband Was William
q Uerhert a naval officer, who secured
d divorce on the grounds of desertlol''
Mr. Gureenheim married the complain
AMI ON Nov co. 1900. Less than Tour
months later they were divorced. The
,-l,,rIsiraut's next husband was jules
Roger VAIL who obtained an annul-
mont Of the contract i'm France ON the
ground that the Chicago decree was III
Short Welded Bliss.
The complainants affidavit, attested
,, before New York notary March 2S,
overs sixteen pages. She says she met
Gug.enheim i'm June 1900, and that he
followed her about until she consented
10 marry him. she was forced 10 reel
-bsi~ marriage secret. she says, as Gug-
eeuheim's family was Jewish and she
Was Christian. and that he was afraid
his family would not give its consent
They lived az the Hotel Manhattan. IN
New York. until Dec. 81. 1900 when
Gucgelhefm sine says. told her he had
decided 10 leave her. as his family wa
still unaltcrably opposed to their mar
riage The defendant then went e
Europe
After many efforts TO get Guggenheiu
TO return 70 her the complainant says
she finally consented TO sue for di
vorcc upon the advice Of Daniel Gug
geuhalm. one of the defendants broth
CTS. IL was suggested that she go &
South Dakota for four months and SUI
from there. but she refused. II va
finally decided that the suit should b.
iled In Chicago.
After the decree was obtained, tn
complainant said, she returned to New
York and soon afterWard married Vail
When ne obtained an annulment o
their marriage she believed herself ire
10 marry again. On consulting her at
t0mey she was advised that the Chi
caEo decree was void and that she il
still Guggenheim's wife.