The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-12

vOrced Former Chorus Girl, Mar
ried Miss Gertrude Boucher of
Canada Oct. S.-Soon After Bridal
Trip She Departed to Jersey
"Thinks He's the Great l AM" She
Says, "And We Did Not Agree on
Anything"
No cigars have been named after Geo.
H; Mulligan, Jr., He has gained fame in
other ways. Not to crowd the first para
graph, the ways are these:
First, he selected father who is rated
as a multi-millionaire. Second, his father
bought him a garage full of automobiles
Third, George, Jr., and his friends used
the automobiles so much to entertain
chorus girls that the customers didn't
chorus girl Bessie Van Ness, in 1909.
Fifth, George, Sr, disinherted his son
right after the marriage Sixth, George
tried chauffeuring here and laboring as
an electricians helper in st. Louis.
Seventh, he divorced his chorus girl wife.
Eighth in there somewhere George Jr.,
faxed suicide in a vain attempt to soften
his fathers heart.
That's all old stuff. The newspapers
have been full of it. The real news that
The World is printing exclusively this
morning is this:
Second Venture Was Brief.
George married Miss Gertrude Boucher,
twenty-siX, of wealthy Canadian fam
lily; in Tarrytown, Oct. g., He took her on
a brief honeymoon to New Orleans and
Atlantic City and then they started
housekeeping in the Hotel Marseilles one
Hundred and Third street and Broadway.
And then-well, the latest Mrs. Multi
gan told World correspondent last night
that she had left George three weeks ago,
after after five weeks of married life, and had
never, never live with him again, she
says.
light, He thinks he's the great I am
But he has fine old father. Even his
father has put him out"
Houghton, lawyer with offices at No
III Broadway, Manhattan, at whose
home in ShreWsbury avenue, Red Bank
shouldn't have said that"
Met Him at Country Club.
Well" said Mrs. Mulligan in answer
10 questions, I met Mr.. Mulligan first
IN the Forest Hill Club, Pike County,
made violent love to me. He told me he
was getting a divorce from his actress
wife, and begged me to marry him as
AT first | refused absolutely That was
in July, 1911 But, after telling him
couldn't consider it we became engaged
in October, 1912. He was a perfect lover
and we We're married in Tarrytown
1T was on the trip to New Orleans that
i H. began to suspect him; He insisted on
my wearing a certain dress because he
said it attracted attention to me | soon
discovered that he thought it attracted at
tentlon to him. | didn't want attention.
Agreed Only in Disagreeing.
After we had lived in the Hotel Mar
seilles a little while l found that our
couldn't agree in a single thing. So /
came here to Red Bank to visit my old
friend, Mrs Iloughton, and to ask Mr.
No | will never return to him, New
ER! But the rumor that | am contem.
plating a divorce is absurd. / have no
a n
ences are purely mental
II don't know where George is now.
I.c He is t}ing mi tnS4 through frienls to get Inc
George H. Mulligan, Sr who tried to
have lis son arrested that time he pre-
tended ten to commit suicide, lives in the
ris Plains, n. j. Somebody there yester-
day said to reporter for The World over
Nobody here knows where Mr., Multi
gan, Jr., is We have heard that he was
married in October. But nobody here is
interested, He has been turned out of the
house
Wealth Came in Contracts.
Mr.. Mulligan, Sr., made his money in
the contracting business. He also de-
rives revenue from a line of sightsee-
ing AUTOMOBILES in this city, After George
Jr was disinherited he drove one of
these. After that he drove a taxi.
The reporter missed George Jr. at the
Hotel Latham by seconds. The manager
of the MarSeilleS refused to say where
the young man had gone It's a good
story, though" he said
Wien George Jr., was in his heyday on
Broadway he was known as THE Mil
lionaire Kid" When he had a big al
lowance he placed many chorus girls on
the road to success in various Broadway
productions. Even the most cynical said
that young George gave simply out of
sheer good heartedness.
The first Mrs. Mulligan brought an un-
successful suit for alleged alienation. of
affection against Mr. Mulligan Sr, after
George, Jr., had sued for divorce.
George has lived only twenty-eight
years.
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