The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-25
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Europe Questions Identity of
Mrs. DeMare's Husband.
Marquise De FOntenoy Says He
Cannot Be Somerset.
UNDER DOCTOR'S CARE
Consequently Could Not Have
Married American.
Kansas City Girl Niece of a
Topeka Merchant.
UNDER DOCTOR'S CARE

s-eO' ouiy 1o--Ine ming OF d.
Vorce proceeding in Independence, Mo-.
against Henry Somerset, the son Of
Lazy henry Somerset Of England. de-
seiops remarkable mystery in con-
nection with one of the recent interna-
tional marriages.
The wife who started this divorce
SUIT lnVolv1ng one of the families Of
the British aristocracy-and mention
ing specincally the son OF a woman of
worldwide fame and well known in
Chicago since the Worlds Fair of 1893
is Mrs. Adeline Hunter de Mare SOM
erset, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Craig
Hunter of Kansas City, and niece OF
George M. Chase, a Topeka merchant
She is the widow of Georges de Mare.
who was killed by jumping in the Pep
per building fire in Kansas City
Mrs Somerset asserts she was mar
rIed to Henry Somerset in London,
June is. 1909. after short courtship in
Paris and adds that the honeymoon
proved they We're unsuited to each
other; that shortly afterward she came
home to her mother and father and
does not expect to see her husband
again. She says she never met Lady
Henry and does not expect that her
suit for divorce, which was instituted "a
week ago, will be contested.
Mystery Is Injected.
But the mystery develops out of in
formation contained in a copyright let
ter to the Chicago Tribune by the Mar
quise de F'ontenoy, which says:
Some extraordinary mystification ex-
lists in connection with the divorce pro-
ceedings against Henry Charles Som
ers Augustus Somerset by a woman
who was Adeline Hunter of Kansas
City. The only individual entitled to
the name of the Englishman against
| whom this suit is brought was married
fourteen years ago to the sister of the
Duke of st. Albans, Lady Katherine
Beuclerc, and now makes his home
with her and with his two children at
| the Prory, Reigate, in Surrey.
| He is the only son of Lord Henry
Somerset, who was controller of Queen
Victoria's household and of Lady
| Henry Somerset, the well known tenn
perance leader. and in the divorce pa
! the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter,
his parentage as such is duly set forth.
/ Schooled In America. s
| Henry Somerset is one of the rela-
| tively small number Of Englishmen
who have gone through college in
America After taking his degree at
oxford, where he was at Baliol, he took
| a course at Harvard
| subsequently he visited Central
| America with Lloyd Grissom and Rich
ard Harding Davis, their adventures
being described by the latter in his
4
lin the line of succession to the uncle's
1 dukedom of Beufort,. q deputy heuten-
ant and magistrate for Herefordshire
/ and Worcestershire, has contested two
| or three parliamentary elect1ons, mas
1 written several books and had a lot of
trouble with his eyes,, which have
caused him to seek repeatedly the ser
vices of the celebrated German oculist,
Pagenstecher, at Weisbaden.
| s'The plaintiff in the divorce proceed
Tn6nnondnn6a Mo- claims TO
have married Henry Somers Somerset
on June 16, 1909that is to say. at the
| time when he was under Professor Pa
| genstecher's care at Wiesbaden- is IL
a case of mistaken identitya
4 Craig Hunter Talks.
i Kansas city. Mo-, July PSI don't
know any more about that man Somer-
set now than did a year ago. CraA4
Hunter, father of Mrs. Adeline Hunter
4 De Mare Somerset, said. MY wife and
i daughter both told me tnas ne was ., :
i records and saw there is LORD Henry
Somerset, but that's all know abou'
it.
about him. He will have to fight IL;
have Thought about this thing and
it has worried me more than anytmne
ever did, and I haven't found out
thing. Ny wife said my daughter mar
ried someone and so does my oausn'
4 ter. SO L guess she did.
"Oh, yes. when the weather gets cool
er nv wife and daughter will be bach
to try the case. They engineered the
marriage. We are going to push tins
case to a finish. Further than tnat
don't know any more about it than
did last year."
The English Who's Who for 1910 has
the following to say about Henry
Charles Somers Augustus Somerset
Born May IS, 1874. Son of the Righ
!. Honorable Henry Somerset and Lad!
| Henry Somerset. Educated at Mari
| borough, Balliol college, Oxford He Il
! the author Of the Land or the MUS
His address is given as The Priory