Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-09
MUCH WOE FOR
MILLIONAIRE
GUCGENHE|M
FORMER WIFE CLAIMS
DIVORCE DECREE IS VOID
Head of SmeIter Trust May
Find Himself Welded to Two
Women if He Loses Chicago
Suit
my Morning Journal Special Leased wirei

my Morning Journal Special Leased wirel
Chicago Jue S.--Judge Honore to-
lay ordered William Guggenheim and
Grace Guggenhcim to show cause why
heir divorce secured in this city IN
iaOl should not be- set aside. Edward
+. Dunno. former mayor of Chicago.
who issued the divorce decree when
a Judge in the circuit court repre-
,ented the complainant. Grace y, Gug-
.enhelm, ana appeared in court with
Ave afrdavits alleging that the di-
oree was secured by fraud.
Mr. Dunno declared that the decree
vas fraudulent as neither pery was
4 legal resident of Illinois, at the time.
md misrepresentation had been made
o Mrs Guggenheim TO get her to sue
or the divorce The complainant also
harges that Mrs, Guggenheim ana
ler supposed attorney Louis Winer
V New York, conspircd to practice a
aud upon the court, She further
tates that she was given alimony OF
S16O.000 of which he attorney obtain
d $I2,500 Mrs Guggenheim further
vcrs that il had been represented to
ler that the defendant was the weak
st aud least important member OF
he Guggenheim family while IN fact
he complaint says he is the ablest
II the seven brothers ana the chief or
aniacr and business head of the great
ombination Of mining ana smelling
interests owned by the family. She
$50 adds that his personal wealth is
robably more than S3,500,000.
The complainant has been married
hree times and has figured in an
qunl number pf dtsorce Suits. Both
e-married after the 1901 divorce Mr.
uggenheim marrying Aime Lillian
teinberger Tho complainants first
usband was William C. Herbert n
avail officer, who secured Il divorce
\ the grounds of descrtion
Mr. Guggenheim married her Mo-
ember 80, 1901 Less than -four
onths later they were divorced The
omplainant's next husband was jules
oyer Wahl, who obtained an annull-
rent of the contract In France, on
rounds that the Chicago decree was
Invalid
The compliments affidavit attested
O before a New York notary March
9, covers fourteen pages She says
ne met Guggcnhcim in June, 1909.
nd that he followed her about until
he consented to marry him She was
orced to keep their marriage secret, !
he says, as Guggonheim's family was
'ewsh and she was a Christian. and
hat be was afraid his family would
ot give consent They lived at the
Iotel Manhattan In New York until
december 81 1903, when Guggen-
elm, she says, told her he had decid-
d to leave her as his family was
TIL unfavorably disposed toward
heir marriage Tho defendants then
vent TO Europc.
After many efforts TO get Guggen- /
eim to return to her. the complain
mt says she finally consented to sue
or a divorce, upon the advise of
>aniel Guggenheim, one Of the de-
endants brothers, 1t was suggested
ne 20 to South Dakota for four
lonths and sue from there. but she
efusd 1t was finally decided the
nit should be filed in Chicago
After the decree was obtained, the
said she returned To New
'ork and soon afctWords married i,
Vahl When nc obtained an annul-
1cnt Of thicr marriage she believed
ersclf free TO marry again ON con
ulting her present attorney She was
dvised that the Chicago divorce was
bsolutly void and that she is stin
uggenhcim's legal wife