The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-22
GOTHAM GOSSIP
Cry Francis Phillips, Copyright 1919,
by the National News Service. N. "

| oil man. seems averse to accepting her
| challenge to have her indicted for per-
jury. The young woman threatens
reprisals if he does When she and
fthe City Hall on November 14th las
| they swore at the Marriage License
Bureau to wrong names. and the bride
| in addition to stating that she was 20
years old. when as a matter OF 1acC
she is said to admit being 50, declared
| that she had never been married be-
| fore. Investigation by the Pierces
show that she was divorced from T.
| Irving Chapman, a millionaire OF
| Brookline, Mass, in 1904, and that she
has since been receiving a small week
| ly remittance as alimony. Young
Pierce is now an inmate of sanitar-
ium ITO which his family has had him
| committed, and she has been refused
| admission to him. Convinced that his
| son was lured into the marriage by
| the wileS of the pretty divorce, I'll.
| Clay Pierce is disposed to invoke the
| law on her if he can do SO without
stirring up too much Of mess. The
wife is holding firmly to her position
and defies him to institute proceed
ings against her. Various reports are
in circulation imputing to the father
of the young man a desire to nave
the trouble settled without scandal
by the payment to her of a substantial
agreeing to an annulment of the mar
riage. Although the bride dfsavows
willingness to consider any PROPOSE
ton along this line, it is regarded as
most probable that she will eventually
accept it as the best solution Of the
problem that now confronts her. IT
she refuses, II. Clay Pierce will cut
off the revenues Of his son and bend
his efforts toward keeping him in the
sanitarium Indefinitely. In this event
he would be of little help or consola-
ton to the woman who bears his name
and to whom money for the mainten-
ance of her expensive establishment is
gestion to an epicure with an appetite
for canvas back duck.
There will be no more marriages a
la carte in the Night Court if the
Magistrates sitting there are allowed
to have their way. Ever since this
branch of the lower criminal courts
was opened for the expeditions dispo-
sition of police cases, the calls made
upon the presiding judges by couples
who decide to get married over a din
ner at one of the Broadway restau-
rants and want to have the knot tied
before midnight, has been steadily in
creasing. The Night Court is open
from 9sto midnight and from 1880 to
$3.50 a. M, and is usually thronged
with the backwash of society, the
Magdalenes, pickpockets, ''rummies'
and disorderlies who fall into the
nightly police dragnet The judges
think it is an atmosphere that is not
compatible with the solemnity and
dignity of the marriage ceremony and
have been shooting away all applicants
for the last week. Wedlock, they say,
means a long journey in double har-
ness as a rule, and a postpOnement of
the ceremony until morning will not
seriously interfere with the happiness
of anyone. Besides 1T will give those
who have not thoroughly considered
the seriousness of the step they medi
tate taking an opportunity for ma
ture reflection.
His Majesty the Shah of Persia, has
husky representative in Gotham in
the person Of his Consul General here, |
one Baozoon Hobannes Topakyan. |
Aided by a relative early the other
morning. he engaged in the capture
of burglar who essayed to enter his |
home.
The Consul General poked the muz-
zle of his pistol in the captive's face
and bade him be quiet Then he
switched on the electric lights and
called his chauffeur and his butler. |
The chauffeur brought a long clothes
line and some stout Irvine. While the |
trembling prisoner looked down the |
pistol barrel the servants bound his |
hands behind him. tied his legs to- |
gether at knee and ankle and twisted
rope around him until he was as help |
less and stiff as clothing dummy. |
Then they carried him indoors and
laid him on the floor.
Highly elated, Mr.. Topakyan called |
up the police station and told the per- |
son at the other end of the line what |
had happened. WhereUpon Mr.. Topaz |
yam ordered out his automobile, and
in it he brought his man, still tied, to
the station and formally delivered him |
over to the police
Speeding along matrin1ony's gilded !
highway at the rate of sixty miles an
hour proved too much for Clara Inge
Jaynes, the pretty young wife of Urlin |
Coleman Jaynes, the son of Buffalo |
automobile manufacturer, from whom |
she was granted a divorce this week.
Mrs. Jaynes is the daughter of Bishop !
Inge of the Methodist church, and |
before her marriage to Jaynes was
an actress in one of the Broadway |
shows.
Young Jaynes was burning up !
Broadway with all kinds and styles of
motor cars when he first met the
young actress. He said at the time |
he announced his engagement that he |
miles an hour.
According to the testimony, he kept |
up this mile-a-minute pace after mar |
riage, but neglected on occasions to
take his bride along. Mrs. 1nge- |
Jaynes named as correspondents a |
Miss Bessie Ash and two other act |
resses. one of whom had a prominent |
part in '"The Candy Shop, but whose |
name the plaintiff alleged she was
unable to ascertain.
Although Jaynes when served with |
a summons and complaint in the ac- |
ton, put in an answer denying his |
wife's charges, he did not appears to |
defend the case at the trial.
Ricardo Martin, the American grand |
opera singer who has been thrilling |
music lovers with his singing at the |
Metropolitan Opera House since Ca |
russo, suffering from an obstinate cold
and alarmed by the prediction of a |
fortune teller that something terrible |
would happen to him on that stage /
this spring, withdrew from the cast |
attributes his marvellous notes to the
hypnotic influence exercised on him |
by his wife. Patrons of the opera |
house, sitting close to the stage, have
noticed a woman standing in the |
wings to one side of the stage when |
Martin is before the footlights and |
have been specula ting much concern
ing her identity. 1T now develops
that it is the wife of the singer and |
that her presence is regarded as indis-
pensable by him if he is to give his (