The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04
MRS. CURT|SS WEEDS DR. G. A. LAWRENCE
Courtship Began When She Was His Patient-Cere- mony at Wilmington,
 Del, on Feb. IA
IS BRIDES THIRD MI. .R!ACE
Bri d e groom s Second Fought Sons Attempt to Put Her $2O,OOO,0OO Es- tate in Guardians Care.

! Philadelphia, March +Spending
 their honeymoon quietly in this city. are pr. and Mrs. G. Alfred Lawrence of New York, who with only two
 friends attending them, were married in Wilmington, Del, on the 14th of last
 month. The bridegroom is a we'll
 known neurologist, while the bride, i with fortune estimated at $20, ,000, GOO, | is one of the richest women in the country. Mrs. Lawrence was Mrs. J. l W. Curtiss.
 l Dr. Lawrence has been married once | before and was divorced. Mrs. Law 1 renee has two divorced husbands now l living. Her first husband was Peter | H. Morris of Boston by whom she l had three children, now living in New 1 York, and her second husband was Roland R. Curtiss of Bridgeport, | Conn.,, and New York.
 1 The romance which culminated in {, the marriage of pr. Lawrence and 1 Mrs. Curtiss began just year ago, 1 when she became his patient for a | nervous trouble. When Mrs. Curtiss ! had been cured, Dr. Lawrence began his attentions tosyher and their en- l gagement followed few weeks ago. 1 Not wishing a large wedding quiet ceremony in Wilmington was planned. ! Through a friend, Joseph R. Wilson, Ia lawyer of this city, the arrange rnents were made and on Feb. IA Dr.
 Lawrence and Mrs. Curtiss came to Philadelphia accompanied by Miss J.. R. Laub of New York.
 1 Motoring to Wilmington. the marri- l age license was obtained from J. W. Robertson, Justice of the Peace and l the party went at once to the resi- dence of the Rev. Dr. W. F. Cochran pastor of the Union Methodist church. | who performed the ceremony. MT. Wilson acted as best man and Miss Laub attended the bride. The l strictest secrecy was enjoined on both 1 the Justice of the Peace and the clergyman, and they observed their promise until the facts accident ally
 became known in Wilmington yester- day.
 As soon as the ceremony was over. the bridal couple, accompanied by Miss Laub, left for Baltimore and Washington, where they remained un- til Feb. 25. when they came to the Bellevue Stratford to spend the re- mainder of their honeymoon. At the hotel the couple have one of the handsomest suites, and they have been entertainin~ in a quiet way dur ing their stay here.
 Before her frs, marriage Mrs. Law renee was Miss Watt. daughter of the late Thomas watt a wealthy man ufacturer of New York. From him she but the bulk of her fortune came from her aunt Miss Mary G. Pinkney, a half sister of her father. Ths estate
 Is said to be one of the richest in New York and is -variously estimated at from seo.00o.oo0 to r$1o0, coo, 600. Assum- ing the former estimate to be correct
 Mrs. Lawrence's fortune is s20, 900 GOO since she inherited one-third of the total.
 In 1907 her son, Louis H. Morris sought to have a committee appointed to take charge of his mothers estate which was then estimated in the New York court at 17.0000OO. The grounds alleged were that Mrs. Curtiss was in temperate, extravagant and was frit- tering away the estate. In her testi- mony the then Mrs. Curtiss said that woman could not live on less than s200 a day, and that "an income, like a reputation had to be lived up to. |" The court declared her entitled to the estate in full.
 In, July last year Mrs. Curtiss was
 the victim of a taxicab accident in
 front of the St. Regis Hotel New
 York. With her at the time was pr.
 Lawrence. Mrs. Lawrence who is 40
 years old, retains much of the beauty
 for which she was noted when young
 CT, and is said to be one of the best
 dressed women in. New York. Her town house is at 142 West Eiehty-
 sixth street. New York, and her coun-
 try estate is at Sasco Point Conn.
 pr. Lawrence who affixes D. L. D.,
 and Ph. D., to his name, as we'll as
 M. D., is adjunct professor of nervous
 and mental diseases in New York
 Post-Graduate Medical School and
 Hospital. and also assistant neurolo-
 gist at the Neurological Hospital of
 Ha ho oh
 books on rnetnal diseases. and is con-
 sidered one of the lea ding authorities
 in this country on the effects of
 treatment of alcoholism. He is just
 four years his wife's senior
 Even before as we'll as since, she be-
 came an heiress to the estate of Miss
 Mary Pinkney. who died in December
 1908. at the age of go Mrs. Julia Watt
 Morris Curtiss Lawrence has appear
 ed often in various roles in the New
 York newspapers.
 Early in 1908 she got into litigation
 because of her failure to pay gas
 bill. At that time she confessed to
 having a private fortune in reality of
 s 900 GOO. but her ready cash had run
 short, she said. She attributed her
 financial straits to the fact that con-
 servators had been placed in tempor-
 ary charge of her estate by the courts
 The money was subsequently, raised
 and the suit settled.
 Her second marriage because of it's
 secrecy. also caused much comment in
 the newspapers At the time her son
 had applied for conservators for the
 estate and to foil his efforts she is
 reported to have quietly slipped away
 and got married.
 Tn September 1907, Mrs. Curtiss was
 taken forcibly from her yacht Osceola.
 and removed to her Connecticut home
 where she was carefully guarded A
 watch was kept on her it was said
 by a Deputy Sheriff and a policeman.
 who were working for her son. Louis
 Morris. She finally eluded them. how
 ever. and slipped away to New York
 Tn the course of his legal efforts to
 have his mothers estate conserved
 Louis Morris testified that her expen-