New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
MARIE LLOYD AND HER
COMPANION BARRED OUT
Deportation of Singer and
Jockey Ordered After Ellis
Island Hearing.
APPEAL TO BE TAKEN
Lawyers for Vaudeville Per-
former Hope to Gain Admis-
sion for Her as Transient
Under Bond.

Marie Lloyd. the English concert hall
entertainer, and Bernard Dillon. the for
mer English jockey. who were detained
overnight on the White Star liner Olym-
pic. were taken to Ellis Island yesterday
and brought before board of special
inquiry.
The hearing lasted half an hour, and
when 1t ended Miss Lloyd and Dillon
were both ordered deported. The couple
arrived here on the Olympic Wednesday.
They, occupied the same room throughout
the voyage. and were booked on the ships
manifest and passenger list as Mr.. and
Mrs. Bernard Dillon
When the immigration officials observed
that they had come over as husband ana
wife the couple were subjected TO close
examination. which brought out an adj
mission that they were not married.
Immediately they We're sent from the
pier TO the ship, where they were guarded
overnight and brought TO Ellis Island
yesterday As soon as the board oil
special inquiry ordered the couple eX-
cluded. Miss Lloyd's counsel Moses
Grossman. and William Blau, who rep
resented Dillon. made formal app'a
II. Uhl. the acting commissioner, who
will send II. with his own report OF the
case TO the Secretary of Labor
The law requires that all excluded
aliens be sent back to the port of origin
by the steamship which brought them
here. but, as the appeal Will take AT
least a week for consideration. the couple
cannot be sent back on the Olympic.
which will sail tomorrow at noon.
Mr.. Grossman cited the case of Elite
Boganny. who came here TO join NJ. Bo-
ganny, an acrobat. The woman was not
married to Boganny. but was suose-
quently released from deportation on the
filing of a bond that she was here as
transient and a performer.
1t is said that the case OF well known
soprano. who lives with man not her
legal husband. and has frequently visited
this country with him, will be presented
by Miss Lloyd's counsel.
Miss Loyd's answer TO the charge made
against her by the immigration officials
was that she intended TO marry Dillon as
soon as she could get a divorce from
Alexander Hurley. an actor.
Miss Lloyd, being saloon passenger.
was permitted to occupy the special room
occupied by Cipriano Castro during his
detention, and her meals were sent to her
from the islands restaurant for employees.
Dillon was detained in less desirable
quarters. While the immigration officials
are determined 10 deport the actress and
her travelling companion, an effort VIII
be made, by the filing of a bond, to per-
nit her 10 fulfill her contract for vaude-
vile tour of forty weeks in this country.
Dillon will have a small chance of escap-
ing deportation.
a statement issued yesterday by Martin
Beck and +. f. Albee. representing the
Orpheum and Keith circuits. said:
I'VE have no personal interest in Miss
Lloyd's affairs. She is represented by her
own counsel. The law must take us
course. so far as we are concerned. If
she is deported. that ends her connection
with us. but If she is allowed 20 remain
she will fulfill her contracts. which cal
for her appearance at the Palace Theatre
the week Of October 10. and play her con-
tracted time at the Keith and Orpheum
houses"