The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-06-16
MILLIONAIRE SOAP MAKER
NOT HAPPY WITH NEW WIFE
The Second Mrs. Percy Proctor Is In
This Country Trying to Locate
Her Spouse.

Her Spouse.
Mr.. Percy Proctor, formerly of Oak
land, where he owned a very fine sum-
mer home and where he held his citizen
ship until about three years ago when
he disposed of his property and made a
tour of the world, returning to this
country less than two years ago, when
his wife died very suddenly on board a
c. & o. train as it was entering Wash
ington, D. c., and who later married a
Russian Baroness, is a very unhappy
man and is estranged from his new
wife as recounted in the following taken
/ from the Cincinnati Post of last Thurs
day:
The Russian Baroness, Nadine Won
Klifuss, now the wife of Percy Proctor,
Cincinnati soap millionaire. who Tues
day came to Cincinnati from Paris,
France, to contest for 100 shares of
Proctor & Gamble stock, is in reality
fighting for the recovery of her mar
riage dowry, according to her attor-
neys, Germany & Germany
Before her marriage to Proctor, who
is 60, she made an antenuptial contract
with him, whereby she agreed to marry
the aged millionaire, and under which
he agreed to turn over to her 200, 900
francs, or SAC, 900. represented in the
value of the stock for which she is con-
testing in court, the lawyers say.
The Procter-Von Klifuss contest
makes an international comedy with
the following characters:
The Baroness, proprietor of a castle
in France, who is seeking her American
millionaire husband, while fighting for
the return of the marriage dot which
he gave her.
Percy Proctor, stockholder.i in the
Proctor G. Gamble Co.. who seeks to
get back the dowry which the Baroness
claims is hers. He cannot be found
and thinks his wife no longer loves and
has left him.
Joseph de Wychof, an English bar
rister, to whom the Baroness gave her
dowry of soap stocks to convert into
real money and who now makes legal
claim of said stock as security for ex-
penses he incurred.
Twelve Cincinnati lawyers, a Judge,
notarles, a soap factory and others of
the hoi polloi.
The Baroness has brought with her
from her castle in France the alleged
contract under which she says she
agreed to marry the American million
aire.
1t states that within year after the
presentment to her by Percy Proctor
of the 100000 francs she will marry
him. AS security for the dowry, in the
absence of immediate cash, the soap
maker gave TO the Baroness 100 shares
of Proctor & Gamble stock 1.-THE lawyers
say.
Then they were married For four
months they lived happily in her cha
! teau in Southern France-the castle she
inherited from her first. husband. The
millionaire lived loves young dream
over again, and then a purely false
alarm made him wake up.
According to the Baroness and her
attorney, George w. Germany, of Cor
manv G. Germany, Proctor is most de-
luded man, laboring under groundless
error.
Somewhere in the United States he is
now believing that his wife, the Baron
ess, has left him, when she is right
! here now eager to renew the first VOW
and explain to him the mistake he had
/ made.
| The late Baron had left to his widow,
| besides the castle in France, some
| debts. And when she entered'upon her
new matrimonial career she idesired to
| clear his debts away and so without the
| knowledge of her husband, according
to her attorney, turned over the stocks
he gave her as collateral tor his dowry
to Barrister de Wychotf, OF London,
in order that he might convert it into
securities that would be salable in
Europe.
And shortly after that Proctor left
France for little trip on the continent,
and feeling lonely the Baroness thought
while he was away she would go to st.
Petersburg for visit to her parents.
Well, then, the Cincinnati millionaire