Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-11
DUKE UNDER COVER
Girl He Seeks to Make Wife
Also Has Disappeared.
MAY TRY IN ANOTHER CITY
Aged Millionaire's Matrimonial
Path Is a Hilly One.
CHILDREN TAKING A HAND
Hurrying to Washington in Hope
of Preventing Tobacco Mag
mates Fourth Marriage.
CHILDREN TAKING A HAND

ham. N. c., and Miss Mylanta Roschelle
of the same North Carolina town today
seems destined not to be consummated-so
far as its celebration in Washington is
concerned. According to dispatches from
Durham the children of Mr.. Duke. much
opposed to this, his fourth embarkation
Washington as rapidly as fast express
trains can bring them, but up to late
hour this afternoon none of them had
reached the capital
Among Mr.. Dukes friends the i'm
efforts to make Miss Roschelle the
fourth Mrs. Duke in this city has in
duced him to seek a more hospitable
the next news of him and his pros
pective bride will come from Rockville,
or Richmond, or some other nearby
town in Maryland or Virginia.
Tobacco Made Him Rich.
Brodie L. Duke. according to his own
statement to the clerk at the marriage
license bureau, is sixty-two years old.
and he is one of the sons of the founder
of the Duke line of tobaccos, which
and all of his descendants.
Brode Duke reached Washington last
Saturday and registered at the Ebpltt
House, but his intention to again become
a Benedict did not appear above the sur
face until yesterday morning, when he
walked into the local marriage license
bureau and procured a license to wed
Miss Mylanta Rochelle, whose age he
gave as twenty-eight years, and whose
residence he stated was Durham, n. L.
Rev. DIR. Donald &. Macleod of the
First Presbyterian Church was designated
as the minister who was to otficiate, but in
the selection of the minister Mr.. Duke
encountered the first stumbling block to
the cOnsummation of his budding ro-
nance, for DIR. Macleod, learning that
Mr.. Duke had twice been divorced. de-
clined to perform the ceremony.
No Change in License.
To have the knot tied by another
minister who did not object to the
prospective bridegrooms matrimonial
career would have necessitated the is
suance of a new license, but it was
learned that Mr.. Duke, much incensed
at publicity given to his latest venture,
sought solace yesterday afternoon and
evening with cOngenial friends. and up
to noon today, the closing hour on Sat
urday at the marriage license bureau.
he had made no application for an al
teration in his permit to marry.
Efforts to trace the bridegroom today
were absolutely fruitless. At the Eb-
bitt House it was stated that Mr.. Duke
not only did not stay in the hotel last
night, but that no indication OF his
whereabouts had been given by the
erstwhile guest. He still holds his
quarters in the hotel, and his luggage
I,,t IArrlya
missing.
Col William Haskell of 211 North Capt.
tol street and one of Mr.. Dukes closest
friends in the capital. almost certainly
has been one of the last of his asso-
ciates to see the would-be bridegroom
but Col. Haskell asserted positively this
afternoon that he did not know where
Mr.. Duke could be found.
Silent as to Movements.
Questioned about Mr.. Dukes move
ments yesterday, Col Haskell was not
SO communicative, and in rapid success
sion he declined to state where Mr.. Duke
spent last night and what were his an
nounced plans regarding the wedding.
Col Haskell also refused point blank to
say whether Mr.. Duke and Miss Roschele
had visited either his office at 211
adioins, at No. 2l3. The colonel did
vouchsafe the opinion that If Mr.. Duke
had started out to get married he prob
ably would accomplish his object before
many hours have passed, and Col. Has
kell permitted the inference to be drawn
that Duke is out of the city today.
though he professed complete ignorance
of the exact spot on the map where he
might be found. Col. Haskell and Mr..
Duke have been friends for years.
Here for Inauguration.
Just how many years the acquaintance
of Mr.. Duke and Miss Roschelle has
covered could not be learned today, but
the register at the Burton Hotel indi-
Gated that it must have extended over
more than year, since Miss NJ. G.
..oschelle, Miss ida Roschelle. B. l.. Duke
and Jonn Pyrk, all Of Durham, n. c.,
were guests there at the time of the
last inauguration, March 4, 1909. Mr..
Duke was in Washington and again a
guest at the Burton Hotel in January,
1910.
AZ about the same time Miss RoscheIle
came to Washington and she was in
stalled as a pupil at the private school of
Mrs. Mary horstley, 1873 q street north
west. Although her age was given as
tWenty-eight in the marriage license ap
only twenty-five, and from the descrip-
tions by her friends she is beautiful IN
both face and figure. Mrs. Haskell said
this morning that the prospective bride
is fully six feet tall and OF statuesque
build and carriage.
Miss Roschelle's disappearance this
morning was as complete as was that of
Mr. Duke. At the house of Mrs. Horst
lev it was stated she had gone out to
her studies (whatever that might mean),
and no prophecy as to the hour of her
return was vouchsafed.
1t is said that Mr.. Duke has been
bearing all of the expense of Miss Kos
cheIle's education at Mrs. Horstleys
school, SO that she might be more tnor-
oughly fitted to I'LL the role of the new
Mrs. Duke.
Left in a Taucab.
Neighbors of Mrs. Horstley declared
this morning that Mr.. Duke. Miss Ros-
chelle and one or two other members Of
the bridal party left the q street house
together late last night in a taxicab,
and the natural assumption was that
they were then on the way to find a