The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-04-29
WE'D TITLES ONLY
TO rue THEM IN
DIVORCE COURTS
List of New York Heiresse.
Who Have Found Sorrow in
Wedlock With Noblemen.

New York. Special The divorce tu.A
granted by a German court to the beauti.
rul Baroness Loeffelholz. who formerIy
/, was Mrs. Charles w. Shope, OF this civ
brings the total of prominent and swealthy
women of New York and vicinity thai
have been forced to put aside foreign hus.
bands of rank and station to a strikln,
number. The pathway of many of them
from the altar to the divorce court ha,
been strewn with many thorns and few
roses.
Not ever the youth, the beauty and til.
dot OF S2.0O0,0W OF Miss Ella Haggin.
daughter OF the New York and San Fran.
cisco mining millionaire. could make ros.
cate the brief married life she led as the
Countess Festetfcs do Talma. She and
the count were married in 1892. when the
bride was barely IS, and their divorce In
1901 was one of the sensations OF the day,
The marriage of Miss Anna Gould to
Count Boni de Castellane. their divorce
and her marriage to Prince Helie de Sar.
an are matters OF but recent history. And
so recent is the separation OF Consuelo
Vanderbilt from the Duke of Marlborough
with it's attendant settlement of 500, 000
upon the duke as a periodical balm, that
It Is not necessary to retail the story.
Miss Helen Morton. daughter Of Lew
p. Morton. started on her career as the
Duchess of Valencay with eclat. Her hus-
band was better known here as Count Boz
son de Talleyrand-Perigord. Their mar
riase in st. Mary's church, London, was
attended by Ambassador Choate and STAFF.
Troubles soon came and the honeymoon
was short and eventful,
After 70 years as the wife of the Duke
de Dino Miss Elizabeth Curtis, once
Brooklyn belle. was compelled to divorces
him. Then the duke took another Ameri-
can wife, Mrs. Stevens. who, In turn. d.
vorced him and went to Paris to live un-
der the name Of Nine. de TalIeyrand.
Miss Evelyn Bryant, a daughter OF Mrs.
r nv IT. NV a -~x
led to the altar by Prince Ferdinand Co
ionna di Galatro, He became a spend
thrift and when she cut him off his funds
as a means OF selt-preservation, he d.
vorced her.
The marriage OF Miss May cuyler. o.
Morristown. N. J., to Sir Philip Grey
Edgerton lost the promise OF its begin
ming and they separated after many
stormy scenes.
No better fortune ATTENDED the mating
OF Miss Edith Van Buren, with the Count
al Castelmonardo, of Genoa. Mrs. Burke
Roche. daughter of Frank Work. married
the Hon. James Boothby Roche. only to
displace him for Aurel Batonyi, who In
turn vas put aside. Miss Gertrude Cort-
iandt Wells. who married Baron Won
Cortlandt de Graffenreid after she had
separated from Schuyler Hamilton jr., Of
New York, found necessity for a legal
termination OF her noble match.
Miss Marie Schroeder. a Red Bank, N,
j.. he.ress. closed her matrimonial ex-
periences with Count Pieri by acting a.
her own detective and getting in PART,
the evidence needed to obtain q divorce.
After the marriage of Miss framed
Cutting to Harold C~ourtenay, a near rel-
alive of the Earl OF Devon. the husband
hled suit for divorce On the ground that
she was mentally unbalanced, and In this
manner ended another romance.
May Yohe. the actress, who may be set
Gown In the list Of New York girls who
married titles, was divorced from Lord
Hope to become the bride OF Captain Put
aam Bradlee Strong. The sensational ca
reer OF the coupi has the world for its
stage.