Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-14
OLD PRINCETON
ATHLETE NAMED
IN DIVORCE SUIT
James Il. CoIfelt Figures in
Marital Troubles of RAJ
borg Family.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Naming two
noblemen and James H. Colfeit, once a
noted Princeton athlete, as correspond
ents, Thomas Mason Thomson Raborg,
banker, of Ill Broadway. filed papers
yesterday in a counter-suit to an ac-
ton for divorce which his wife, for
merly Miss Marie Vyse, has just insti-
tuted in the Supreme Court.
Mrs. Raborg names Mrs. Moore, of 10
East Forty-ffth street, as the woman
in the case. Mr.. Raborg alleges that
his wife violated her vow while
abroad, and that her choice fell not
alone upon Colfelt, but on Baron Gino
de Morpurgo of Rome, italy, and VI
comte Calder de Veauce, of Paris.
Mrs. Raborg is about 81 years old,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
A. Vyse, of Staten Island. She is a
cousin of Mrs. Frederick Nelson n
is also related to Mrs. Reginald c.
Vanderbilt. In a party of society
friends she was often seen at the local
race tracks.
Mr.. Raborg, while eligible, has not
been such a leading figure in social
circles. He is slightly Over 80 years
of age and comes from Virginia, where
his family is one of the most promi-
nent. He belongs to the Chevy Chase
Hunting and Metropolitan clubs of
Washington, and to the Strollers and
Seawanhaka- Corinthian Yacht Club
here.
Married In 1905.
The two were married October Is,
1905, in st. Leo's Church, Twenty-eighth
street, near Fifth avenue, by the Rev.
Father Ducey. To quote the list of
attendants, ushers and spectators would
be to lift pages from the Social Regis
ter. 1t was a typically beautiful we'd
ding. Their honeymoon embraced a
tour of the Southern States, and on
their return they made their home at
Madison avenue and Sixtieth street.
Outwardly there seemed to be no
shadows of unhappiness on their lives.
No eyebrow was raised when. Jour
years Ago., the tall and beautiful ma
tron went abroad.
Though she had crossed the water
many times, 1t was on this visit to
Paris and other foreign scenes that the
life fascinated her. Standing out, II
seemed, above the many other attrac-
tive women who enlivened these gay
centres, she was foremost in the parties
on the Bots de Boulogne, at the Ritz
and at Aix-les-Bains. With her always
were men and women of wealth and
title.
Mr.. Raborg charges that Colfelt,
short-distance champion OF college days,
became intimate with Mrs. Raborg In
March, April n May of 1909, at the
Hotel Tremoille, Paris, and that they
pursued this conduct in August, 1909, at
the. Hotel Borgue ct New York at Ak
les-Bains.
Mr.. Colfelt is also prominent in other
directions. Just before his graduation
from Princeton, in 1895, he won the in
tercollegiate championship at Mott
Haven in the 29o-yard run, defeating
the celebrated Berney Wefers and
other cinder-path celebrities. April 20,
1900, he married Mrs. Marian Wiltbark
Hecksher, of Philadelphia, who had
been divorced. The couple went abroad
to live, but a few years later their ro-
nance ran or the rocks.
Despondent over the situation. Mrs.
Colfelt tried to commit suicide Septem-
Der 3, 1908, by shooting herself In her
Paris home. She recovered and the
couple were temporarily reconciled, but
divorce followed.