Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-04-04
BRIDE WILL FIGHT FOR
MILLIONAIRE HUBBY
Says He Was Taken Away
By Force

New York, April 3-The liveliest OF
legal wars is now pending over the 9f-
fort of Henry Clay Pierce, the multi
millionaire, to have annulled the mar
riage of his son. Roy E. Pierce, with
Mrs. Betsy Faulkner Chapman. Mrs.
Pierce asserts that her husband, now
a patient in the sanitarium Of Dr..
Carlos F. Macdonald, the alienist, at
Central Valley N. Y, was snapped
from her side in the midst of their
honeymoon and has been kept incom-
municado by his family at the sani-
tarium since.
1T is damnable plot to ruin my
happiness My husband is not insane.
He was rational, true and good" Mrs.
Roy Pierce says.
1T is all too horrible to talk about
announced Henry Clay Pierce, the
young mans father, at his office in
No. As Wall sereet yesterday.
Mr.. Glenn NJ Congdom of the law
firm of Parker, Hatch & Sheehan gave
out this formal statement to the press
late yesterday:
Yes a marriage ceremony was
performed by an alderman on Nov. II,
1910, in New York City. AS the BRIDE
groom was then mentally irresponsible
an action has been brought by his next
friend and through our firm as attor-
neys to annul the marriage The de-
tails we will keep possession of until
the hour of the trial, which will take
place soon"
Wife VIII Resist AnnuIment.
Mrs Roy Pierce, who is about eight
years older than her husband, an
Inounced yesterday that she was pre-
pared to defend bitterly the legal pro-
ceedings by which young Pierce's fam
lily expect to show that his marriage
should be annuled on the grounds that
he was not in his right senses when he
proposed to Mrs. Chapman and when
he was married
They say" said she yesterday, when
seen in her apartments at No 220 Fiji
ty-ninth street, where she is at pres
ent living with her mother, chat he
has paresis 1T is a falsehood. 1t will
speedily be proved at the trial that he
it not a paretic, unless he has been
turned against me and is being taught
how to act crazy. But I cannot believe
that. He loved me too well, | am
sure. And | sincerely loved him.
eve lived most happily. To be sure,
he was at one time fearful of letting
his father know. He feared his father
to some extent. He persuaded me at
the time that it was best to keep the
marriage secret and so ! did not even
assume his name / continued to be
known as Mrs Chapman.
81 don't know myself the full details
of how he was spirited away from me.
You would better ask his father
have been left absolutely in the dark
since day in January when Roy re-
ceived a telephone message in our
home He did not seem perturbed )y
the message, but putting up the receiv-
er, simply looked at me and said, I'll
be back in an hour, dear He never
came back ! know that he was in
duced to get into an automobile and
the next l heard of him was that he
was in Dr. MacDonald's sanitarium
He is declared to be suffering from
paresis. That is both cruel and abb
| surd.
81 had known him for some time and
was attracted by him because he was
bright and sensible and was really
splendid young man. He had no bad
habits. He did not dissipate. He was
not one of the fast set of young veal,
thy men. He was enjoying excellent
health mentally and physically.
Says She Was WOOed in Paris.
Mrs, Chapman corroborated the in
formation that it was in Paris that her
acquaintanceship with young Pierce
took serious turn. This was at
time when Baron Jimmy Rothschild
was her most earnest sutton She had
known Roy Pierce in America, mad it
appears that when the young Yankee
entered the lists his was the conquest
over all the foreigners.
She lived like a princess abroad, for
after procuring her divorce from T.
Irwin Chapman Of Boston she found
herself possessed of $4,000 a year al
imony and she did not stint her ex-
penditures in travelling among the
! European capitals
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