The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-07
THE ROMANCE
TWO SISTERS
IS SHORTENED
MRS. KiRkMAN LEAVES HUS-
BAND AND SISTER HAS BROKEN
HER ENGAGEMENT TO WE'D
CLARENCE FISHER.
) Special to The Journal.

New York, Sept. 6.-Mrs. Edna
Streck- C~oxton has broken aer en-
.gagement 10 wed Clarence Fisher of
Asbury Park. says a morning news
paper. Coming only day or two af-
ter her younger sister, Mrs. Helen
Louise Streck- Dodge, announced that
she already had found the creature
man a delusion and a snare and had
quit her husband, George w. Kirkman,
also of Asbury Park, the affair has
caused gossip.
Both of the young women are really
beautiful and supposedly rich, their
father having been wealthy Penn
sylvania coal operator. They have
been much in print ever since they
came to New York, four or five years
ago, when they were about 16 and is
years old. They tried the stage for a
few weeks, living with their mother at
the Ansonia. Next came the marriage
of the younger sister to William Phelps
Dodge, an eccentric widower, member
of the old Phelps-D Dodge family, and
later their separation and divorce.
Mrs. Croxton was angry when telling
of her summer romance, and Mrs.
Kirkman added many details to the
story.
Sisters Romance Opens Eyes.
"The ending Of my sisters dream Of
happiness opened my eyes to the true
state of affairs said Mrs. Caxton.
Il discovered that the man I was to
marry, Mr.. Fisher, had been silent
witness to a deception
During the summer, sister Helen
and I chaperoned by mother, went to
Asbury Park. At the Coleman house,
where we stayed, we we're introduced
to Mr. Fisher and Mr.. Kirkman. Mr..
Fisher said he was a Wall street brok-
er, and Mr.. Kirkman represented him.
self as a real estate operator OF Inter
laken. Mr. Fisher must have known
that Mr. Kirkman grossly misrepre-
scented himself and that he was not in
the real estate business. AS matter
of fact, he was the son of a shoestring
peddler, and his mother keeps board
ing house in Asbury Park.
"One day the two young men took
us automobile driving and as we were
passing a neat, home-like cottage In
Interlaken, Mr.. Kirkman remarked that
it was his home. He said he and his
sister were living there, and his mother
was on a pleasure tour in the west.
1.-THE devotion of the young men to
us soon resulted in double engage
ment. Affairs, however, were not
moving swiftly enough for Mr.. Kirk
man, and the next thing l knew he
and Helen went to the residence Of the
Rev. M. L. Ferris, Ashbury Park, and
were married July 5. She didn't tell
mother until three days later. Helen
accompanied us back to New York to
give her husband an opportunity to get
his home in order. She remained with
us until July IL and then went to the
Deal Inn, Deal Beach, to join her hus-
band.
Not Handsome in Evening Dress.
"Fhe establishment of my sister was
sudden and complete. She discovered
that Mr.. Kirkman had told endless
falsehoods. His financial condition had
been misrepresented, and he owned
neither house nor automobile. In addi-
ton he had lost in personal magne-
tism. My sister had first seen him
when he was in a light flannel suit,
and he looked charming. But in even
ing dress and other clothes, he was.
she found, far from attractive.
Helen was thoroughly disappointed,
and has returned to us determined
never to live with her husband"