The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-25
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necessary to the validity of the union.
an annuity of $40 900 a year. guaranteed
by the late Queen Victoria, mother OF
The grand dukes first wiie; S sne Wss
Romrod, and is now the wire 81 tne
Russian minister plenipotenisry at
r rsein Th 1SY son ot 70 Which she gave
birth as the offspring of her brief union
with the grand duke has been oroughs
up under the care and at the expense
OF his half-sisters the Czarina and the
widowed Grand Duchess Sergius OF Rus
Duke Henry of NfecklenburG schge-
rim and his American wife now hive
in chateau which they have rented
IN the neighborhood of LittSn: m
Henry of Mecklenburg- Schwerin.
A good deal Is likely 20 be heard OF
her in the next few weeks on this side
Of the water. for her two children,
James. and her daughter, the Countess
Henri de Ia Mittre. are suing her In
the United States courts for an &C
counting az executrix of her hrst hus-
souandering it-thst is TO say. prop
erty in which I,, she u has only il6e inter
erty is almost entirely located on this
side of the Atlantic; the outlook for
the lady and her duke Is not alto
gether promising from financial point
The late Amadee James's mother
was Miss Marshall. and his mater
nal grandmother was a De Gasquet.
member OF French family OF the
name Of De qas9uet. Thich had: hoy,
firing Of New Orleans. MIR and Mrs
to Europe. and establishing Themselves
at Dresden, assumed the name OF
De Gasauet James In course OF
abeth. now dead, married the Saxon
/ officer. Captain Won der Decken, they
commenced to call themselves ,d s De
where they occupied an apartment IN
Avenue Bugeaud: IN Paris. and ulti-
Belle Issue, near Dinard. being known
in the countryside as the Comte ct
Comtesse de Gasquet. The husband
died some years ago. and the son mas
had the good sense to refrain from
taking up the title and has resumed
his fathers patronymic OF James
Mrs. Hugh Arundel Trevanion. who.
according to the cable dispatches from
tsry of State for the Home Department
Fthe permission requisite for the ex-
humation OF her son. Hugh Eric Ire
vanion. with the object OF proving her
contention that the overdose of veronal
TO which he succum bed some weeks ago.
was not self ad ministered nor acciden-
tai. as alleged by coroner s jury, but
was the result OF a crime. is one of the
daughters of old Sir Daniel Cooper.
VINO was the 0ret speaker OF the LeglS-
lative Assembly of New South Wales.
and one of the great ground landlords of
the Australian city of sydney, deriving
a colossal fortune from his property
there.
Mrs. Trevanion's brother was the
second Sir Daniel Cooper. who was up
to his death one of the pillars of the
English turf. steward of the Jockey
Club and one Of the most familiar figures
in Newmarket. where the late King Ed
ward was often his guest.
Mrs. Trevanion has had the most
extraordinary matrimonial experience
mother. Lady Elizabeth. was a sister of
the thirteenth Earl of Strathmore. in
| 1882. and secured a divorce from him in
1857. Then he married again, and ten
years later his second wife died. Hap
pening to meet his former wife in
ciety, he fell in love with her once more.
and entreated her to remarry him. If
not for his sake, at any rate for the sake
of their boy, Hugh Eric. She at length
consented, but few years later was
obliged once more to appeal o the courts
this time for judicial separation. on
the ground of his drunkenness and
/ brutality, we'll as for his having pass
ed of a woman of the name of Mrs.
Griffiths, as his wife. at some very
smart seaside towns in England and
! thermal resorts on the Continent. In
! fact. there were a number of sensational
features in connection with this second
application OF Mrs. Treyanion to the
courts. which was successful
Her boy. Hugh Eric. was one of the
/ favorite grandchildren Of old Sir Daniel
cooper. ana WneH ne Qleu ne leIL MIN
u fortune of some $500 90 II would
seem that young Trevanion had man
aged to ALLEVIATE almost the whole of
his property to d man of the name
of Roe, who was in no way related to
/ him. but who shared his apartments
at Hove. suburb of Brighton
The case presents a considerable
amount of analogy to that of the death
of young Cecil Murray on one of the
American liners en- route from South
dead in his bunk. his demise being due
to dose of cyanide of potassium. Ma
iOr Frederick Helbert, formerly of the
Welsh Fuslliers. who was his travel
ing companion, and had the connecting
cabin. admitted the ownership of the
bottle and insisted that Murray had
borrowed II from him on the preceding
! day. In spite of the suspicious cir
cumstances. no regular investigation
was made. until some weeks later the
don a Will. in which Cecil Murray. who
had only known him for a few months
bequeathed to him his entire property
The viii was not probated. Sir
Percy Sanderson. then British consul
general in New DIRK. made an investI-
CATION. But. owing to the circum-
stances under which young Murray
had left England and the desire TO
avoid the dragging the name OF
married woman into the case. the lat
found II prudent to compromise his
claim for quite 4 small sum. lie has
since served a term Of penal servifGde
for roDbing London Jeweler. and at
one sine cut a wide swath of fraud
in this country. a. an alleged military
attache OF the British EN- bassy at
Washington.
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