The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-05

NEW YORK. April 4.-Young and fa-
mously beautiful Mrs, Roy E Pierce.
whose twenty eighty old husband Is
son of Henry Clay Pierce, the "oil
king Of Mexico. Texas and New York,
has been summoned to appear in an ac-
ton soon TO be heard before the supreme
court in this state in which 1t Is alleged
that her marriage to the millionaire's 9
son should be annuled the ground
that he was mentally irresponsible when
he led her to the altar and that he is now
incompetent.
This news OF an action for annument
OF the marriage OF the heir TO the Pierce
millions is also the first news of the mar
riage itself. which occurred last NoVem-
Der.
Husband in a Sanitarium.
to his father his secret marriage to the
fascinating woman OF romantic history.
he has never seen his bride He Is a
patient In the santarlum OF DR. Carlos
F.. Macdonald the alenist In Central
Valley, y. Y. DR.. Macdonald, when
asked over the long distance. telephone
yesterday about the case referred MS
questioner to- former Justice Alton B.
Parker, counsel for Henry Clay Pierce,
the bridegroom's father.
Young Pierce,s wife Is known to Socie- 500,
Berlin and the Riviera. Her beauty has
As Betsy Faulkner OF Boston. she mar
ried T. Irwin Chapman, member Of n
were numbered among the statesmen of
the Bay state, one OF them having been
governor Ills mother was a special
leader In Beacon street society:
Betsey Faulkner. daughter OF cultured
parents in moderate circumstances in
Boston, won no favor with the grand
dame OF Beacon street Young Chapman
left his wife and baby and went TO Japan
a. nJ il,yf Ia a "a n1n hon
social HE In Boston and followed him 10
the Antipodes.
She Divorced Chapman.
Mrs Chapman divorced him. She went
on the stage, appearing under Belasco' s
management as upderstudy for Henrietta
Crosman in Sweet Kitty Bellairs." She
also played a part regularly in the pro-
duction. and was to have been starred
In n play entitled The Violators," but
Belasco abandoned the production.
Then Mrs. Chapman went abroad; her
baby having died meanwhile. Her ca
reer there was picturesque because OF
the alteration she received. Most famous
~ in her train as ardent sutor was the
son and heir OF the great Baron Maurice
de Rothschd, He followed her from
London to France. That was in Sep,em-
Der OF last year,
gallant-youns Pierce. He had known
Mrs. Chapman in America. had. Indeed
been acquainted with her for about two
years. And OF sudden, while all the
aristocratic beauX OF Europe were gos-
siplng about the certainty of Baron jim
my Rothschild's marriage To the Ameri-
can beauty she departed for her native
shores. That was In October 1910. One
month later she and Roy Pierce were
married. The details OF the marriage arc
not yet publicly known,
Young Pierce was not enthusiastic
over breaking the news to father Henry
Clay Pierce is q decislvely minded man.
tions and man who insists upon being
consulted and directing his family al
fairs. Not but that he had INDUCED
young Pierce with all the luXuries that
the heirs OF modern milllonaires usually
enjoy-motor cars. yachts and so forth.
He had been proud when young Pierce
was graduated with honors from Harvard
In 1906.
Marrying in November, Pierce left his
wife to live In apartments near River
side Drive and himself continued TO live
with his family In their home at No
Is East Fifty-seventh street. II was two
months before he made up his mind to
tell his father of his marriage.
IT astounded Pierce, ST., immeasur-
ably He made only one comment He
told his son he thought he was crazy.
Young Pierce never returned to his wife
after that interview. Her efforts to ge;
In touch with him were unavallnR. And
In Inst January the young man became
n patient In the Macdonald sanitarium,
Everybody Reticent.
Efforts to reach Judge Parker failed
last night. He was not In his apart
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