Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-29
HAS PRETTY GIRL
HELD PRISONER TO
SAVE HER HUSBAND
Mrs. Coop, Fearing for Her
Home, Has Niece Detained
at Ellis Island.
A N HER SENT BACK
TO HOME In ENGLAND
Musician Comes from Utah TO
Meet Miss Cooke, but His
Wife Beats Him.

NEW 1OHh, OoC. N'-
Cooke. a pretty girl Of Is, after O
night in the detention pen at Ellis
Island, will fight before the Inquiry
board today for tho right TO remain IN
America. Her uncle b. marriage, Pro-
lessor Squire Coop. head OF the depart-
ment Of music in the University OF
Utah and known Through the West IS
q composer of ability, La bending svery
effort to have her admitted, while her
aunt, Professor Coop's wife, who is re-
sponsible for her detention, is eoualy
determined to have her barred as a
menace to the Coop home
Miss Cooke is a highly educated, tenn
peramental girl, and formerly lived
with her aunt and uncle. Professor
Coop fled an action for divorce several
weeks ago, alleging abandonment. HIS
wife, who is contesting h suit, says
her love for her husband is eternal
She declares that In trying to keep
Jeanette from landing and in opposing
the divorce she 10 only trying to save
the professor from himself.
Professor Coop maintains that his IN
terest in Jeanette is that Of q protect
ing relative toward a homeless girl.
MRS. Coop, e young woman of a much
admired French type Of beauty, takes
q different view of it. She is living IN
New York temporarily, while her hus-
band resides In Salt Lake City. They
have lived apart for the past year.
Came to Meet Girl.
She reoeived Information that her
husband left Utah Saturday for New
York to meet Jeanette, who was oom-
ing on the Oceanic from h homo
of her aunt, Mrs. T. Coulson, who has
a country place near London. Mrs.
Coop then put her case in the hands
of her counsel, Kaufman, Herzberg q
Finkel, 2 Rector street. The Coop ro-
nance is several years old.
While pursuing advanced studies in
music In Paris seven years aso Pro-
lessor Coop met Mile. Carmen Nesville
at the HON of a mutual friend. With
in q few months Mile. Nesville came
to New York, whittier Professor Coop
had preceded her, and they were mar
RED February rs, 1904. They made their
home in Ogden, Utah, where Professor
Coop had made a high name for him
self IN his profession and where he was
choirmaster in thu Mormont Temple.
Mrs. Coop describes their domestic life
for three years az ideal. h suggested
to her husband that they take under
their charge Jeanette, who was in u
private school in London The girls
mother had died and her father, James
Cooke, a man of ample means, spent
most OF his time travelling. seldom oc-
cupying the family home in Berlin.
Professor Coop accepted his wife's sug-
gestion and she went to London, re-
turning with jeanette.
Warned by Her Sister.
Mrs. Coop says her surviving sister.
Mrs. Coulson, warned her while in
London that jeanette was an unusually
romantic and brilliant girl, and that
because of Professor Coop's admiration
for beauty and intellectual attachments
the introduction of Jeanette to the Coop
household might be attended by unex-
pected developments. Mrs. Coop laughed
at the warning and persisted In the
plan to take Jeanette with the ulti-
mate intention Of adopting her.
Arriving at Ellis Island, Jeanette,
Professor Coop and Mrs. Coop were
summoned before the Immigration
Board. which refused permission for
counsel of either of the parties to at
tend a preliminary hearing. Mrs. Coop
submitted letters described as having
been written by Jeanette and Professor
Coop and also the girls diary. which
had been forwarded TO this country
by Mrs. Coulson. Professor Coop and
his wife ZACH gave testimony while the
other was excluded from the room. but
Jeanette was present throughout the
examination.
The board announced it would reach
no decision until after further testi-
mony was taken today. Professor Coop
declined to discuss the case when he
left Ellis Island.