New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12
IS WE'D, BUT WIRELESS
William C. Lester, 2d'S, Bride
Was Miss Betty Fougary.
BUT SHE ISN'T WITH HIM
Parents of Young Girl Spirited
Her Away to Get Marriage
Annulled, Rumor Says.

William G. Lesster. I'd, who brought
suit last February i'm two courts TO gam
a share i'm the estate of his grandfather
william c. Lester. valued at sSoo'ooo'
was married last Monday and appeared
before the public yesterday wifeless.
Some time in the interim the ne" Mrs.
William c. Lester. 2d. disappeared, ana
though Mr. Lesster. seen last night at
the home of friends with whom he Is
living near the Nassau Boulevard avia-
ton field. asserted that lit would all be
settled in time 10 the satisfaction OF all
concerned" his detected mien intimated
that the time might be long.
Lester. who for a time followed his
father. Edward w. Lesster. to the stage,
playing the boy role with Joe Jeffer-
son in rip Van Wrinkle" is regarded as
a popular member of the Nassau Boule-
ward colony Several of his friLhds at
that place last night mentioned their
surprise when they learned that he had
come TO this city unceremoniously on
Monday. obtained the last license of mar
riage to be issued by the city clerk on
that day, and sped to the Little Church
Around the Corner" where he was united
I'm the bonds of matrimony with Miss
Betty FoUgary, daughter Of William
Fougary. who put down her address on
the marriage certificate as No. 664 West
10th street II was said at that address
last night. however. that no one by the
name of Fougary lived or ever had lived
there
They went after their marriage TO the
Ansonia and spent Monday night at the
hotel but the following day they pulled
up stakes and departed for parts un-
known Mr.. Lesster appeared next at
Nassau Boulevard, but not his wife.
There had been opposition on the part
Of the brides parents to the match, and
'rumor had it yesterday that she had
been spirited away by them. with
view to an annulment. When applying
for the license Miss Fougary gave her
age as nineteen, the legal age for wom-
en- to marry without their parents con-
81 III, bul tltlh WIN StN AhNh' OF tH'
marriage bureau said that he would
have taken the bride TO be two years
short of that Lester said he was twen-
ty-twO.
Testers suit TO break his grandfath-
er's will was brought on the grounds
that his grandfather's second wife had
obtained the bequests made TO her
through undue influence. William {.
Testers first wife. mother of Edward
W. Lester and grandmother Of young
Lester, divorced her husband in 1904.
Not long after he married Miss, Grace
Felix, who was about twenty years old,
less than one third the age of the elder
Lester. BY her he had two children.
William c. Lesster, jr.. and Grace G.
Lester. All of his property was LETT
to this wife in trust for her two chill
dren until the younger reached the age
of twenty-five, swhen ii was TO be d.
vided between them.
William c. Lester died in st. Angus
tine. Fla, January - of this year. II
IS held by his widow that William {.
Lesster, I'd, is no relation OF his. and
that he had often told her Edward w.
Iesster was son of his first wife by
a former marriage. Edward w. Less
ter. who is now dead. played with Chaun-
cey Olcott, under the name OF Edward
l.. Tyler.