The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-02
Princes and Counts Form
Plan to Gain Riches.
THREE WIN HEIRESSES
Noblemen Marry American Girls to
Pay Debts-One Left in Field.
French Court Gives Husband DAM
ages from Runaway Wife-Suc-
cess Meets Endeavors.
BY LA RACONTESsE.

Paris, April IA little over four year:
ago four "high-born'' gentlemen, tn,
Prince Miguel of Braganza, his brother
| Prince Francis Joseph; Count Antor
S1sray, the well-known polo player, and
Count Laszlo szechenyi, met one even
| ing at Szechenyi's home in Vienna Il
discuss the most important and urgent
financial questions.
They were in critical positions and
funds were badly needed. They sal
drinking Slibowitz and other Hungarian
liqueurs, when one of them had an in
spiration. Said he:
| Let us all marry American heiresses!
| There and then the four solemnly
swore to start at once on the warpath
Whoever brought it off, was to help his
| less fortunate companions.
Count Laszlo Szechenyi was the first to
reach the goal. With little difficulty he
| laid siege to the hand and heart of a
Vanderbilt heiress, and soon captured her
and her millions.
His ccmpatriot and friend, Count 81
gray, accompanied Szechenyi to the
States, where he was best man at the
wedding, and, incidentally, introduced to
Miss Harriet DAILY. The Daly-Sigray we'd
ding was celebrated in due course of
time last spring.
Success Meets Endcavors.
These results exceeded the widest
dreams of the syndicate. Two of its
members were still unprovided for.
Count Szechenyi and his bride. with her
SIS, 900, Co., settled down on the counts
Hungarian estates. At the first ball they
he
Miguel was often with Mrs. James Henry
Smith and her pretty daughter Anita.
The prince made good use of his oppor-
tunities, and his wedding was celebrated
with much pomp and significance in the
Highlands of Scotland.
Francis Joseph of Braganza was still
unprovided for. He managed to get in
troduced the Gould family and made
up to Miss Marjorie Gould. but she
refused him. Shortly afterward, at his
brothers wedding, Francis Joseph was
presented to Miss Gwendolyn Burden by
Miguel Miss Burden would inherit the
fourth part of $50, OF, 0c0 Naturally. Fran
els Joseph fell in love with her on the
spot and followed her to London. to
Paris, to Bartlett, and finally to New
York, where / believe he is now.
What seems like new Judgment in
matrimonial suits has been delivered by
the fourth chamber OF the tribunal. A
husband instituted a suit with the OBJ
tect of making his wife return to him.
The wife sought a separation in 1909, but
lost the suit. Instead of returning to her
husband. a Paris doctor, she took her
child with her to Gers, where her par
ents reside. The doctor then invoked the
law to compel his wife to- return to him
under a penalty of 80 a day
Runaway Wife Sued.
According to the judgment of the court
the wife had no motive for refusing to
live with her husband. While marriage
created purely moral duties, it consti
tuted a civil contract sanctioned by laws.
A wife was obliged to live with her hus-
band, and the husband was compelled to
receive her, and, according to his means,
provide her with all that was necessary
for her needs. An article OF the civil
code made it clear that If a wife failed to
execute her share of the contract she
could be proceeded against, and damages
claimed.
The judges thought that the husbands
claim was we'll founded and the wife was
ordered to leave Gascony and return to
Paris and resume her place with her hus-
band within a week of the judgment of
be fined so day.