The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-25
W0MANISRESCUED
BY LOYAL FRIEND
Madame Claude Berton Escapes
From Her Matrimonial
Prison.
DIVORCE ACTION STARTED
Death Of Father Olivier Recalls
Recent Sensational
Incident.
DIVORCE ACTION STARTED
ny VANCE THOMPSON.

| Especial Cable to The Times DispatchJ
| Paris, September 24.-Thanks to the
bravery and loyalty of an American
woman Madame Claude Berton. the
daughter Of DR.. John L. Phipps. of Chi
cago and Seattle, has escaped from
her matrimonial prison. The brave
and loyal woman who went to the
rescue Of this lifelong friend OF hers
Is the Baroness Moncheur, of Paris.
The baroness is connected by mar
rage with Baron Moncheur, the Bel
gian Minister at Washington, and is
sister-in-law of Alexander c. Cape
hart, Of Minneapolis -and Paris. She
has lived for twelve years IN Paris,
and she and Miss Phipps studied to-
gether and gave many delightful
musicales in the Phlpps salon when
they were both girl Students in Paris.
Baroness Moncheur stormed down to
the Normandy coast in her automo-
bile. rescued the wife Of Claude Ber-
ton, and to-day the poor little Amer
lean girl has taken the first steps
for a divorce from her French hus-
band. the son of Pierre Berton, who
was the author of the play .Zaza"
Tho baroness, having learned that
her former girl friend was sequestered
IN the Villa Antoinette at Saint Brevin.
Normandy. determined to rescue her.
cost what It might In courage and
cash. What really moved her to
immediate action was this:
",inlcvolent Suggestion"
She learned that Claude Berton was
attempting to suggest suicide to his
half-crazed wife by repeating to her:
ooh. the last thing You can do Is
to make way with yourself You can't
do j., you haven't tho courage"
Leaving her home, No. Sc Boulevard
Des Batignolles. at 9 o'clock in the
morning, Madame de Moncheur found
herself after a fast ride knocking at
the door OF the secluded Normandy
villa. The hour was noon. She had
with her local lawyer. to whom she
Aad telegraphed. and q gendarme. or
country policeman. Like all DULLES,
Berton was easily frightened by the
presence of the two men.
Captive ga Hunted Animal"
They found Madame Berton weep
ing in an upper room. The poor wo-
man had seen no one from the outer
world for weeks. she looked like a
hunted animal, and was haggard and
half-starved. Her old friend could
scarcely discern a trace of the beauty
VI lNe pretty SlTl OIL OLHeT fQdyS. Sle
told everything to the lawyer. but 1t
is probable that the suit for divorce
will be based upon the case of non
support, as DR.. Phipps has been sup
porting them since their marriage.
Claude Berton Is so we'll known
in Paris that in Reno he could b.
divorced on fifty grounds 1t was be-
cause DR.. Phipps stopped sending
money to his daughter that the prison
tf1a a ffDfr 10
In the hands of the criminal police.
Madame Claude Berton hopes to hear
soon from her father. She does not
know where her mother is. for in the
general breakup OF tho Phipps family
the father and mother drifted apart
and are divorced 1t was because he
sent his three daughters over to study
music In Paris that DR.. Phipps lost
them all. as we'll as his wife; in other
words. the whole family.
Illuminating Priest.
The Rev. Father Olivier. OF the
order of Saint Dominic died this week
at hospital in Lavallois Ferret He
was one Of the most remarkable men
France has known In many year.
He was born in 1885. and took or
ders when he was twenty-four years
old. IT was as an orator that he was
| best known. It was in 1897 that he
came up to Paris, where he preached In
Notre Dame. 1t was In this year in
| the r,onth of May that there occurred
the horrible catastrophe of the charity
bazaar. The government of France
organized special service on May 8
of that year for the victims.
Father olivier preached the ru-
neral sermon. and he pronounced one
! of the most startling addresses ever
delivered In Paris. He said that the
awful catastrophe, in which the moe.
| brilliant aristocrats of French So
| ciety were burned to cinders, had been
a manifestation OF Divine justice, and
that these victims died because France
needed an expiatory sacrifice The
| sensation which this created Is stnl
remembered the world over.
A few days later, on May IS, Min
lister Brisson. now President OF the
Chamber of Deputies, had Congress
vote that the Dominican preacher was
! mistaken, and that God was not con-
| cerned with French society. This
speech of M. Brisson was posted up
on all the public boardings OF France,
and Father Ollivierwas driven from
| Notre Dame. After that he lived in
poverty, and died in pauper hospital.
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