Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-20
MISS LEA IS
SAID To bE:
||VPOSTER
Memphis Man Declares Young
Woman Who Married Newman
Here Is His Wife.

A search that is expected to lead
10 Atlanta and all of the principal
rites of the South has been started
m Memphis for c. D. Newman. a
Tennessee business man, and his
bride. q woman known as Marjorie
Lea, TO whom Newman was married
by the Rev. H. NJ. DuBose, of the
First Methodist Church in Atlanta,
last Wednesday.
Memphis officials now claim that
the woman, who posed in that city
end Atlanta as sister of United
States Senator Luke Lea, is an i'm
poster and that she also is the wife
Of j. I. Tarr, Memphis cooper
worker, who claims he married the
woman in New Mexico two years
ago.
TAR, It is understood, has enlisted
the aid of the Memphis police de-
partment in the search for his wife,
and agents of Tarr are expected in
Atlanta Thursday or Friday to take
up the search at this end. Atlanta
clews, however, are very meager. and
little is expected to result from an
Investigation of the couple while here.
Newman and the woman, when they
were married, were attended by Lind
sey Hopkins, a prominent Albanian
and a college friend of Newman, and
there was nothing to indicate that
the wedding was not regular. DR..
DuBose knew nothing of the womans
claims to relationship with Senator
Lea, and married the couple as he
would marry any one who applied
with the proper legal papers.
Didn't Deny Relationship.
Newman and his wife came to At
!anta the Tuesday before the wedding
where they were seen the next day by
newspaper men. Both were very reti-
cent concerning the facts of their
wedding, but at length consented to
nave 1t made public. Neither denied
al that time the reports that the
woman claimed relationship to Sen
ator Lea, and this detail was also
'olo Atlantans by friends of Newman.
According to dispatches from Mem
PMS, the woman met Newman while
she was staying at a Memphis hotel,
where she was registered as Miss
Marjorie Lea, and posing as a sis
yer OF the United States Senator. She
asked Newman's advice about dis
posing Of some property she said she
owned, and their wedding followed
very brief courtship.
ph Tuesday before the marriage of
NeWman and the woman in Atlanta,
larrs wife disappeared, and he asked
'oe police department to find her. Al
'adt time there was apparently no
Connection between the Miss Mar
''re Lea" and Tarr's wife, but later,
"hen Tarr saw statements in the
'iehphls papers denying the report
.ial the woman was related to the
'"'ted States Senator, he became
Suspicious. Tarr then went to the
@emphis Paint and Glass Company,
vie OF Newman's business interests,
'Du was shown pictures of Newman's
"'ue' Which he is said to have iden-
'"eu as photographs of his wife.
Met in New Mexico.
lalr told the Memphis police that
az met the woman in New Mexico,
mere she was working in a cafe.
'5y were married there two years
'sV ne told, and since then have lived
inherent parts of the country. He
'@'hed they always lived in differ
.D' towns under different names, the
'N'ah claiming that her relatives
'sFe after her"
"otning has been seen or heard of
"lnen and the woman since they
'' me Piedmont in Atlanta, with
IeaNing a forwarding address.
'nphls friends of Newman think
are staying at the ST. Charles
''er IN New Orleans, though mes
80 addressed to him there have not
zen sAz%ered,