The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-02
Mrs hapman-P ierce In
dignantly SpurnsM oney
Of Father in-L aW.
WILL FIGHT TO
KEEP HUSBAND
Beautiful Bride Will Not Sit by
Quietly and Have Her Mar
riagc Annulled--Chargc Of
Perjury in Securing
License Will Be
Made.
Especial to The Times Dispatch.

New York. April l.--Onc hundred
thousand dollars. it was said to-day.
| has been offered TO Mrs. Bessie Chap
man Pierce TO remain away from
Goshen y. y, next month, when the
Roy +. Pierce viii be brought to trial.
1t is said that 1lrs Pierce has in
dignantly spurned tho offer made by
| Tho millionaire father Of her husband.
Attorneys for the Pierce family. it
is said, are contemplating All action
against tho bride. Their allegation
is that In obtaining tn. license perjury
was committed. They assert that the
young woman stated she never had
been married before. At the time she
was the divorced wife of 7. Irwin
Chapman.
The marriage. 1t is said. was per-
formed in this city. not in Boston and
the license was obtained here on No
vember Il. Mrs. Pierce gave her name,
1t is said az Elizabeth Perry and
Fierce said he was Roy Ellsworth.
which Is only two thirds OF his name
Mrs. Pierce to-day left her home at
go West Fifty-ninth Street and is
now said TO be at Laurel in the Pines,
Lakewood, X. J.
There will be no nnnumcnt OF the
! marriage without a fight. The l,eauti-
| ful Mrs. Pierce docs not propose to sit
quietly, while the father of the young
man, through his attorney. endcavors
to have the marriage set aside on the
ground that last November. when
Pierce led Mrs. Chapman to the altar,
he was incompetent and mentally IT.
responsible for his action.
Pierce. who a few years ago was
one of the brightest young men In liar
YARD, is now Il guest at an upstate
sanatorium. Just how quickly he be-
| came candidate for the place noted
for the many rich patients In charge
| of n famous alienist was told TODAY. s
In order that the full Significance
OF his boing placed there may he un-
| derstood." said a friend OF the bride,
| you want TO look back over tho his
tory of the case. There was no pref
tier girl in all Boston than Bessie
| Faulkner when at seventeen she be-
came the wife OF Irwin Chapman. She
mad been on the stage, but 1t was not
her beauty that led her there. She
had ability. and all her friends be-
iieved that when the opportunity Of
fercd she would prove she had cXcep-
| tional talent
Her marriage to the Boston broker
changed all this. Bessie Faulkner
comes of very good family. with n
history that has been Identifies with
the growth OF New England"
To Go on StnEc.
Mrs Pierce is going on the stage.
This was learned to-day. when she
permitted Benjamin II. Benton, a pro-
moter Of publicity. to exhibit q col
lection OF photographs showing her
! In every pose in which she ever has
| appeared either on the stage or in
| society The exhibition was made
| at II l-2 West Sixty third Street, tho
q l., {,},
| tngton was assaulted about two weeks
! ago.
one or the photographs is particu-
larly daring. and Mr.. Benton was askc,,
| II 1T were true that this Photograph
! Of his thirty Gig ht-ycar- old daughter
in-law, had aroused the ire of the eIdor
| Pierce.
NO Absolutely no." declared Ben
| ton. There Is nothing TO that story. .
Benton refused to discuss Mrs.
Picrces stage ambitions but said:
| she's tho shrewdest woman 1 know.
IT Will be pretty hard for the Pierce
| family to buy her off. She spurns tha
reported offer of 100000 to stay away
| rom Orange county when the proceed
! ings come off. and in fact, | don't
! think 1t was ever mado her
, Mrs Pierce, might add. is in no
! danger OF being tried for perjury In
connection with her marriage. sho
| was welded to Roy under the name OF
| Eiiznpeth Perry, part OF her name,
and she said she was sinEl.
truth none can deny. for sho
| was divorced. The oil interest Il
/ are going to do all they can
i to put her in n false light. and to
| this end they arc keeping her nus
band away Hes crazy to get into
her society again. but his father is
stern and keeps him away"
! To-day Mrs Pierce refused to be
! interviewed personally. instructing
me FIFTY ninth street apartment occu- :
| pants to say she Is in Lakewood Her
! mother and her attorney also refused
| to say anything.
The Pierce family remained rettcent
nnd their attorneys. Alton g. Parker
and Glenn Nj. Congdon, refused Ia talk
| It was learned that young Roy's next
friend under whose name all the PRO
cecdngs have been conducted. Ia Tor
mer Judge Albert II. L. Siegcr, or
| p re