The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-29
...,, GIzyekI Secures Her Child
OILY After Nicholas Had
Heard Her
Story.
piles FOR DIVORCE
upAmericsn Romance Is Found in
ii. unhapplly Married Life
Of Miss Pat
terson.

lGate City Leas d Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Jan. 28.After invoking
n aid OF Nicholas, the little white
haer,' in recovering her child.
Dsuntess Eleanor Gizycki, nee Eleanor
stterson, came to Chicago and today
|tkd suit for divorce against her titled /
,nband, Count josef Gizycki, of I
ssnsko. In the province of Moravia,
lwtrla-H Hungary.
The countess left tonight for Wash
hnon where her mother, Mrs. r. w.
pstterson, maintains winter home.
Countess Gizycki is a daughter OF
aA late r. w. Patterson, founder OF
be Chicago Tribune She is a sister
ii Joseph Medill Patterson. million
sHe owner OF the Tribune, author I'D
gOcialist. and a cousin OF Joseph Me-
bill Mccormick who negotiated
through the czar, for the recovery of
hsr child.
Countess Gizycki charges that her
husband aban oned her and that he
has been guilty OF intimacy with
Grace Muell 4. Ludwill Lippold and
Lima Kohlman, three Viennese beau
ties, and many other women. She
demands custody of their child, Eel
ieia, aged FIVE, but specifies that she
desires no alimony, as she is inde-
pendently wealthy in her own name.
| as one Of the heirs of her fathers
immense fortune.
4 he news Of s.ie ming 81 q dr.
sorce petition created no exc ement
ID Chicago, where it has been expect
led for years. One impelling reason
| ior the fling of the suit is the coun-
less anxiety to retain her child.
Friends say she has lived in constant
iesr that Felicia would be kidnapeu
from the Patterson home by agents of
he father and smuggled to Europe,
mt Of the jurisdiction of courts OF
lhis country.
Miss Patterson first met the count
| ID 1882 in Paris. He was 90 years
ser senior, but this did not deter him
tom an ardent courtship. He for.
lgally proposed to her in st. Peters
burg in 1908, while she was Writing
hsr aunt, Mrs. Mccormick, wife of the
ambassador to Russia.
The marriage took place in the Pat
terson home in Washington on April
| H. 1904, and was an elaborate socia
affair, though there were rumors ther
That the elder Patterson bitterly op
posed it on account of the past life
Of the count.
After the wedding, the count tool
his wife to his Austrian estates
where they lived until the birth o
their daughter when they moved t.
Paris, There, on March 80, 1903,
Is alleged, the count deserted her
AT the time of the separation. tn
child was in the fathers custody
Countess GizyclSi made many effort
10 recover the child. but without sue
cess. Count Gizycki finally took tn
girl TO st. Petersburg, and it was the
that the czar was asked to use nj
mbuence. ana ulu SO.
The Russian courts had no jurisdlt
ton in the matter, so Joseph Medl
Mccormick interceded with Russia
officers and ii is declared Car N1ci
olas, taking q, personal hand in tn
matter, had his chancellor of r.
quests, Baron Budberg, notify COM
Glzycki to deliver the child to IN
mother and not to interfere again wit
j In Russia.
At any rate, Mccormick recovere
the child and restored it to the coul
Tess though there are rumors
Chicago that he forcibly KIDNAPPED
from the count, without the aid OF u
car, The exact manner of recoverin
the child was never disclosed.
The child is now under an arme
guard in the Patterson home in Iai
Forest. Ever since Felicia was
turned to the countess an armed guar
mas been with her constantly
Count Gizycki was living In Anne
lea, before his marriage. In 1899
crossed the ocean to attend the ma
riage of Miss Julia Dent Grant al
Prince Cantacuzen. and while at
dinner dance in Newport created co
sternation by scattering $40 bills
the orchestra. The count and his WI
We're guests at the wedding OF MI
Roosevelt and Congressman Lon
Worth In 1906.