The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-07-18
WEALTHY WIDOW
To MARRY AGAIN

NEW YORK Special-A contem-
plated marriage that will arouse
great interest in social circles became
known Monday when William Slavery
Lower, a real estate broker of 81
West Forty-fourth Street obtained at
City Hall a license TO wed Mrs. Kath-
crime Gelshenen Braker, of the Hotel
Plaza.
According to the license, Mrs.
Braker is forty-nine and Mr.. Lower
place at st. Patrick S Cathedral, and
the marriage will be Mrs. Braker's
third.
When a reporter asked Mrs. BralIer
over the phone Monday night if she
had anything to say about her APP
preaching marriage man took her
place at the receiver and said:
We can say nothing until tomor-
row."
Then you don't attempt to deny
t?' the reporter asked.
Wanted Nothing Printed.
Il don't think you ought to print
anything about it until we tell you
to-"
ITO whom am I speaking?" was
asked, but the man refused TO an
sWer.
AS a young girl Mrs. Braker, who
was then Katherine 7. Dunno, mar
ried the wealthy and prominent Will
! liam II. Gelshenen, who at the time
of his death in 1902 was president
| of the Garfield National Bank and
! the close associate of Charles w.
Morse Mrs. Gelshenen came into the
! limelight with her husband at the
| time of the Ice Trust investigations.
when it was alleged that the Garfield
! National had made improper loans to
| Mayor Van Wyck for the purchase
| Of ice stock. Mrs. Gelshenen was
/ shown to own stock in the trust.
! Mrs. Braker, at the death of her
! first husband, came into possession
/ of about 100000 900. her four chill
dren also inheriting large fortunes.
a short while later, when the
/ Morse Dodge divorce case was at its
height, there were persistent rumors
that Mrs. Gelshenen would wed
] Morse. who had succeeded TO many
| Of her husbands business interests
and who MANAGED her estate.
Escaped Process Servers.
When Abe Hummel became con-
Jerome made persistent efforts to serve
( Mrs. Gelshenen with a subpoena, and
/ servers and flight to Europe caused
/ a sensation. Dozens of detectives sur
rounded the Gelshenen home on Fifth
I Avenue for days ana served every one
who went in or out, only to learn that
their quarry had escaped and was on
| the other side of the water.
Mrs. Gelshenen was subpoenaed to
! testify in the Morse trials in 1910, but
! she always insisted that her relations
! with Morse were purely matters of
/ business, and after his reconciliation
/ with his wife Morse declared that they
| had never contemplated matrimony.
| Married Braier in 1867.
! In 1907 Mrs. Gelshenen married
/ Henry J. Braker, a wealthy importer
| of castor oil, who had offices at No. loo
! William Street and vas prominent
/ Braker died abroad while the couple
! were on the honeymoon trip. His will
/ left his wife millions, but her daugh-
ters by her first husband were cut of
! in a codicil from legacies bequeathed
! them in the original instrument. al
| though GelShenen's sons were literally
/ remembered. Mr. Braker left mil
! lion dollars to Tufts College and other
: large requests to charity.
Sometime later Mrs. Gelshenen re-
fused to attend the wedding of her son
William Henry Gelshenen. to Miss
Florence Carpenter. The marriage
took place in a reformed church after
! Mrs. Gelshenen had made persistent eff.
forts to have It performed by Catho
| lie priest
Mr.. Lower is a real estate dealer anC
was formerly secretary to Mrs. Mary
| Adelaide Yerkes, widow of the Chicago
and London traction magnate. In 1911
announcement was printed that Mrs
Yerkes and her former secretary would
wed, but this Mrs. Yerkes denied.