New-York tribune., 1912-04-15
MISS CP0CKtR TO WE'D
FORNER TENNIS STAR
California HeirsSS Announces
Engagement to Malcolm D.
Whitman, of This City.
BRIDE, AT 18. GOT 5000, 1000
Once Dropped $4,000 Pearl
Necklace Into OCEAN and Later
Lost Another One Val
ued at $4,000.

Announcement vas made here yester-
day through Mrs. Chlrles B Alexander
of the engagement Of Miss Jennie Ade-
line Crocker. the san Francisco heiress,
to Malcolm p Whitman. the former ten
MS champion. Both Miss Crocker and
Mr. Whitman are well known not only
in New York but ia all the watering
places of this continent.
Miss Crocker. who now twenty-five
years I'D. is the daughter Of the late
Colonol Fred" Crocler. Of san Fran
cisco. When she was eighteen years old,
n 1905. about S5VoGo0o was handed
over TO her by her guardians. part of her
fathers estate. in which she shared with
her brother Charles Tsmpleton CrocNer'
md the late Mrs Burton Harrison, who
vas killed in a motor car accident III
1908
one If the first things Miss Crocker
did that attracted attention was to drop
q S25 900 pearl necklace into the Allan
fic ocean when she was going abroad
shortly after she Inherited tho main
part of her fortune Money was always
plentiful and two years later the heiress
was exploited as spending $4,000 for
ball at Uplands. the Crocker home.
Miss Crocker bough, another pearl
necklace-this time for S5OOc0-but she
lost II or 1t was stolen. or in some way
disappeared while she was dancing at
the Mard Gras ball Mrs. c. c. Alex
ander gave in February. 1909, in the
St Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
This created furOr IN police circles
and everybody was looking for the neck
lace. The following March the Omaha
police we're asked 10 hold up a necklace
thought 10 have been stolen from Mrs.
otto Heinze until Miss Crocker could
look il over Later a man peddling
gems in the Canal Zone was thought
10 have known something about the
necklace.
A Chum OF EIeanora Sears.
Miss FIoarora Sears and Miss Crocker
we're always great friends, and the
two appeared in the mems clothes that
made Miss Sears so conspicuous at Bur
lingame i'm 1909 It was also said that
Miss Crocker made side bet with Miss
Sears that the Boston sportswOman could
not walk from Burlingamo 70 Del Monte
In fftv-7ve hours. a feat which was al
most accomplished Last March. when
Miss Sears was said to have danced the
Texas Tommy with Lord Reginald Her
bert. at Coronado Miss Crocker was said
10 have been ono Of those present.
Dogs have always been fad with Miss
Crocker. and last July dispatch was
published saying she had cornered a part
Of the California egg market as a diet for
her pets. In September Dick Dazzler and
Wonderland Duchess, each a $1,000 dog
and part of the 100000 Crocker kennels
died and we're buried in concrete cofins.
About one hundred dogs attended the OBJ
sequies
Her brother, Charles Templeton
Crocker. was married about year ago
IN Miss Helene Irwin. daughter Of Colo
mel William q. Irwin. the San Francisco
banker and Hawaiian sugar planter.
The wedding was an elaborate one, and
the two fortunes combined represented
more than S2OOwpoo The brides
father gave her a wedding present ot
about SLO00O0O in stocks and bonds
and Mr. Crocker presented his wife with
UpIands. About a year previously Miss
Jennie Crocker had purchased the hom"
II Mrs William : Teyis at Burlingamr,
10 occupy after her brothers marriage.
IL is one Of the show places of the re-
sort.
The Charles TempIeton Crockers gave
"a bail in January, and the advance no.
tices said il would be page from the
Arabian Nights Miss Jennie Crocker
was slated 10 appear as GuLnare, the
Princess Of the Sea.