The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
DIVORCED FROM LORD.
Kansas City Girl Free From Henry
Charles Somers Augustus Somerset.

Kansas City, Jan. "A divorce has
been granted by Judge Walter A Pow
ell in Independence to Mrs. Adeline
Hunter de Mare Somerset, 1902 East
Thirtyfourth street. from Henry
Charles Somers Augustus Somerset,
who styled himself Lord Henry Som
erset. Mrs. Somerset's former name,
Mrs. Adeline Hunter de Mare was re-
stored to her by the decree. The
grounds given We're incompatibility
and nonsupport. Somerset was not
represented in court.
Mrs. De Mare is the daughter of
Craig Hunter, who has an employ
ment agency at 1000 Union avenue.
Mare. a painter, who was burned to
death in his studio in the Pepper
building fire. She is a niece of G. W.
Chase, a Topeka merchant.
In 1908 Mrs. De Mare went to Paris
to study and year later she met
Somerset and was married. Immedi-
ate1y followed rumors that Somerset
was an imposter. In the marriage
certificate, Somerset described himself
as the son of Richard Charles Henry
Somerset, Baron Seymour. There is
no Baron Seymour in the English
peerage, except that the title is held
as a secondary one by the Duke OF
Somerset, not used by himself, but
able to be worn by his son as a
courtesy title. But Charles Augustus
Somerset did not claim to be a, son of
the Duke of Somerset. Lady Henry
Somerset, the temperance lecturer,
later denied that it was her son who
had married Mrs. De Mare. although
the names are the same. and ner hus-
band was declared an impoSter.
Il was travelling in Europe with my
mother said Mrs. De Mare. and met
Mr. Somerset We motored together
and finally I went to London, where
we met again. or. rather, he followed
me to London. We were married in
the registrars office, with the clerk as
witness. That was on June 10, 1902
We lived together while there and
then we went to Paris, where, with
my money, we furnished a flat From
June 16 to June 81 we lived together
and then I became i'll. l paid all Of
the bills l was told by him that ne
was son of Lord Somerset, and
believed him. never doubted his sim
certify for a time. When l furnished
the money there was always some eX-
cuse or other, until could not stand
it any longer. He failed to provide me
with clothing or the necessities of life,
and when 1 became i'll refused to gel
me medicine.
when 1 left the flat he said: Glad
to have you go. I did not want sick
wife, anyway"
This finished the continental evil
dence, and then Mrs. Somerset took up
the American side, and said: 4 came
back home to America
Upon being crossed questioned as to
his treatment of her Mrs. De Mare
said that when she was i'll her hu5-
band intimated that he had studied
| medicine and was willing to take her
for a trial case. He did not want
another physician called in, for his
| medical knowledge would bring about
the proper restoration of health, ne
told her. 1t was then she disbelieved
his story that he was a scion of English
nobility and, reasoning by deduction
feared that he might be a counterfeit
| in more ways than one. She declined
his attentions along this line. prefer
ring ill health to possible loss of life
altogether.
Mrs. De Mare testified that she did
not know where the lord is, but pre-
| sumed he is in Europe. Mrs. De Marc
| touched lightly on the tours through
| Europe in a motor car, but did not tell
the court whether she furnished the
auto or not. Nothing as to the trip os
| her attorney to the European centers
| in search of the elusive lord was
| brought out in evidence. Only the dis
| illusionment of the marriage was
| touched upon. She told of studying in
Paris and this was 1.-The beginning Of
the romance she said, (which ended
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