The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-13
MARRIAGE REGULAR.
SAYS MRS. LYLE IN
HTFORFORTUNE.
Nothing More Cruel Than In
situations" Declares Former
Nurse of Millionaire.
WERE WED BY PRIEST
. Widow Who Gets Vast Estate
Denies She Ever Kept.
Relatives Away.
WERE WE'D BY PRIEST

Mrs. Julia Gertrude Harmon Lyle.
widow Of the aged millionaire who was
FOR many years . partner in the dry.
goods house Of Lord and Taylor, re-
CARDS with the utmost Indignation The
charge Of Mr.. Lyie's blood relatives
that there 10 not a sufficlent record Of
their marriage two years ago.
Mrs. Lyle. who went to the million.
aires home as q nurse when he was
Frustrated after the death OF his firyt
wife. took the place Of his ter-in.law
Mrs. Elizabeth Newcomb. as housekesper
and In the end married him Sept. 20. 1910.
Friction and a feeling on the old
gentleman's part that his marriage was
nobody's business but his own. together
with an habitual shyness on the part Of
his wife prevented the relatives and the
public at the time from learning details
OF the marriage. The relatives, with the
feeling OF the heirs OF every rich man
who takes a young and pretty wife. are
said to have begun circulating stories
OF unfair influence by her over his &C.
lions and the future disposition Of his
property.
Nothing could be more cruel" Mrs.
Lyle said to-day. when advised by her
lawyer to make statement, than the
inslnuation of any irresulsrity In our
marriage. I am a Catholic, Mr.. Lyle
was Protestant. We saw Father
Fullam in Yonkers before we applied
o.
went back and were married by Father
Fullam. The witnesses were Joseph
Hagan and Elizabeth Gimbel.
NEVER KEPT HIM FROM RELA.
TlvEs, she SAYS.
ut is Just as untrue that / prevented
Ids relatives from seeing him, either
during his last illness or at any other
time or course would not have tried
to persuade him to see them against
his will II he felt that they would
He knew his own wishes regarding
them best. doubt II they ever made
any real effort to see him In q friendly
way"
The Lyle fortune. which IL known to
run into the millions In value. though
Il has not been definitely appraised.
was left to Mrs. Lyle except for be-
quests amounting to about three quar-
tiers Of q million dollars left to charities
and to relatives regarding whom the
millionaire had no prejudice as fortune
hunters The sum Of $4,000 was left
to the widow outright. The homo OF
Mr.. Lyle. In which the widow now
spends most of the time with her sister,
Is a comfortable cottage of the style OF
the '7Os, set back In a great park
which In heavily weeded. Numerous
farms, dotted with the homes Of gar
deners and laborers, surround the park.
I'm to the time Of his second mar
rage. Mr.. Lyle was rather inclined to
be morose and unsociable. He was
never seen in the village except when
riding to and from trains. great
change came over him after he had
married the pretty trained nurse. He
bought a swift automobile and accom-
pan!eG by his bride went careering
through Hudson County at a speed
which was at once the fright and the
10y OF peOple WIN Hau hho"h A's N"s~s
ways for years.
.You BET I'M MARRIED." SAID
MR.. LYLE.
On tho day after the wedding re-
porter for The Evening World called
Mr.. Lyle on the telephone to verify the
fact.
you bet I'm married." he chuokled
over the phone.
When oongra tulations were rendered
% him, he laughed long and heartily.
THANK you." he replied. and II you
could see her you'd know deserved
en-"
Then apparsn1y turning to come one
else near the telephone, Now. now.
ehats all right. IT'S true"
Mr.. Lyle WAS then ninety-thrss years
oA. From his voice one would NOT
have thought he was nfty.