Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05

globe trotter, prince Of adventures,
hot on their trail, commissioned by
Motifs family to return with him to
New York
Mrs. Bovine and Mott are living to-
getheT in Hongkong Mrs. BOwne's
husband, a wealthy lawyer, has just
received divorce from his wife. Mott
is still legally married, but it has
been reliably reported that his wife
will seek and will be granted a decree
Of divorce. And because of the con-
sistent and repeated expressions of
true love for each other, made by the
clippers, 1t is believed that they will
marry as soon as possible.
One year ago it all began. a series
Of the most sensational incidents in
American social history. Walter
Bovine, the husband of Motifs inamo-
rata, was named by John p. Manning
as o-respondent in a divorce suit
against Mrs. Adele Taylor Manning.
This suit followed a fist fight between
Bovine and Manning in a hotel cafe
Society attached much significance
to Manning's accusations at the time,
and consequently little sympathy was
expressed when, a little later, Mrs.
Bovine fled with Mott.
The Bowne-Mott affair eclipsed the
terest. Mrs. Bovine was beautiful. All
America paid tribute to her loveliness
when. as Frances Gibson, she sang
herself to prominence as prima donna
in THE Chocolate Soldier" Every
where she was the subject of ad-
miration. Her early exploits as an
athletic schoolgirl, as a cowpuncher in
the West, as brilliant, dashiug
young woman, were published every
where. And when she married she
wealthy New York lawyer, Walter
Bovine, her husband became the most
envied man.
Something in her free spirit must
have been akin to the temperament of
Jordan L. Mott. The two were i'm
mediately infatuated. They were seen
together. Their names were linked
together in casual, innocent gossip,
but no one dreamed of a liaison until
the startling tidings came that they
had fled together.
It is generally believed that Mott
considered the matter of his flight
calmly and logically. 1t is even said
that he had a long conference with
his father, General Mott, before he
fed and refused to be swerved from
his purpose by the pleading of the
aristocratiC proud old general.
surprise was this circumstance that
when Bovine missed his wife he did
not associate her disappearance with
Motifs, nor did the re&t Of the worl /,
until the message came that they
had shipped on a British tramp
steamer.
There was romance enough in this
circumstance. They shipped as cabin
boy and maid, and almost tdyllic was
their existence on board. The boat
was the Indradeo, and was bound FOR
China
The Motifs still were eager for the
return of their son to his home and
to his wife They realized that ne
could be brought back only by force
of moral persuasion. and consequently
Ter, in pursuit.
Fuller Sent in Pursuit.
Fuller was a romantic figure. true
nomad and world -rOamer. He had
been a war correspondent and a globe
trotter. and was qualified as probably
no other man to pick up the trail Of
the clippers And because of his in
timacy with Mott he was qualified
best to get him to return.
General Mott called up Fuller gave
him a letter of credit of $4,000 and
assured him Of S25, 600 should he sue
coed in his mission. Fuller started
after the Ieisurely Indradeo on the
swifter Mauretania. He reached Par
is. and started southwark, aiming 20
head off the tramp boat at Gibraltar.
But a railroad strike had occurred,
and the pursuer was held at Anid-
lusia just long enough to miss catch
ing the Indradeo. Again he picked