The Detroit times., 1910-11-05
WEDDING RIDDLE
INTERESTS sOC|E|
Message Comes To New York Nss
paper Announcing Second Mar
riage of Young wiIlets.

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-when IA
Sam Willets divorced, IL he was es.
married?
When and where did Mrs L. IA. AL
mold get her divorce, that she int
marry Sam WNlliets?
And just when were Sam willie.
and Marie Arnold married?
was Sam Willets ever married
Amber Lawlord, the actress. who
private life was Mrs w. r. MORGAN
II not, how did he convince the Df
prietor OF that Larchmont hotel fii&
they We're man and wife after I'd.
scandalous story two years ago. whcI
they occupied a cottage suite as
Willets and Wife?
These and other questions Wi.I
speculative answers furnish sociol/
! conversational nourishment these oN
tumn days.
There's a high life story back a
the chatter. Sam Willets, club nl9I
son OF the late Col. Edward WiIIeiI
the millionaire who built Brighth0mH
a 100000 place TO live in, at Ross
Ign. l.. l., has long been known az at'
enthusiastic huntsman and poloist. All
one time he was the Meadow Br00N'
hunt NJ. F. Fl.
! Something like a sensation VA
| caused when telegram reached H|
New York newspaper. signed IS. WI
let's" announcing his marriage to Mr1,
Marie III. Arnold. The reason for TIM
excitement was that no one could mn
out anything about Mrs. Arnold hatt
ing securedNa divorce from l.. II. Ar.
mold, while a healthy suspicion that
/ InAa hA -ssf A
| Lawlord had existed for some time.
1t was in 1908 that Willets was in
the llmelight, as the result Of claims
by Amber Lawlord that he was her
husband. This Willets denied, but her
claim was strengthened when VIZ
let's apparently succeeded i'm convinct
ing the proprietor Of l.archmont no.
tel that the signature on the regio-
ter. IS. Willets and WIFE" was state.
ment OF fact. The couple, with the
woman's two daughters, occupied one
OF the hotels cottage suites.
81 think il is up to Sammy to ten
about our marriage" said Miss Law
lord, during the controversy. 'Und9t
the circumstances I don't see why
should be expected to talk at all. You
can see we are registered as man and
wife,"
About a week later she left for Alt'
; rope and in Paris registered at t1E
Majestic as Mrs. Wifiets Uccupylnt
an expensive suite.
No one has ever succeeded in una.
ing odt where the couple were q
vorced. or married either for thai
matter. Miss Lawlord Is well known
in stageland She appeared in some
of Clyde Fitch's plays and at one
time appeared in support OF Amelia
Bingham.
The present Mrs Willets was =
Miss Bosington in Brooklyn. she
/ married a man named Holmes, when
a girl. and after his death became the
wife of Iemuel II. Arnold, Brooklyn
lawyer and banker.
Last February. Mrs. Arnold went 10
Reno and in April she returned. ~
she secured a divorce il has been
kent quiet. Upon her return she took
a cottage at Mineola, l.. J.. where
Willets was a frequent visitor. Inc
couple motored and attended the
weekly flights of the aeronautic club
at Mineola.
Col. Edward Willets offered $1,000
600 to anyone who would prove his
son had married Amber Lawlord,
when the scandal was at its height.
Six months later he died and Sans
name was not mentioned in the Will.
! Everything went TO the widow.
When Willets wired the news OF
his marriage to Mrs. Arnold, he stat
ed that Rev. J. F. Johnson of Hart
ford. Conn. had tied the knot. MIR.
Johnson. when questioned, was reti-
cent. but admitted he married them
early I'm the summer and not that day
or the preceding day, He said he
, had been asked not TO say anything
about the ceremony. Registrar Nj. G..
Law said the license 10 wed had been
granted so long ago that he had for
gotten all about il until il was recall
ed to his mind.
Taken by and large the Willets-
Lawlord-Arnold episode is a delicious
morsel and society is enjoying it to
the limit. Until Willets sees fit to
explain his relations with the Law
lord woman and Mrs. Willets to tell
about her divorce from Arnold. the
market promises to be full of specu-
lation.
CASTOR ron SHERIFF.