The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-02
Richard Holiday Under Ar
rest at New Rochelle,
New York
ONE WIFE WAS
HARRIET HAZEL GOFF
1t Is Alleged-she was Formerly a
Waitress at Brooks House and Was
Well Known in Town-says She
viii Prosecute and Then Divorce.

NEW YORK, June 2.-Richard NJ
Holiday, manager of the Green stamp
trading store at 40. 367 Main street.
New Rochelle, is locked up in that
city as fugitive from justice, accu-
scd of bigamy, and his bride of less
than two months is on the verge OF
prostration in her fathers home
About the first Of the year Holiday,
handsome, well dressed and possessed
of a winning personality, appeared ia
+ New Rochelle As manager ,of the
stamp trading store, he soon made
hundreds Of acquaiutances. lie became
a welcome guest in many New Rochelle
homes, among them that of Mn.
NIitseh a well-to-do market owner.
Neighbors soon said the attraction
there was the market man s daughter
Matilda. not quite eighteen years old
The neighbors guessed right.
Holiday proposed marriage 70 Miss
Alitsch one sunday afternoon last
April when they were walking iii Co
Iumbus park She accepted him. He
begged her TO marry him that very
day and She consented TO an elOpc-
ment. They took train 10 New York
city. went over to Hoboken and were
married.
Daisie Lc Roy. an actress, who lives
In the Bronx, heard of the wedding.
Miss Lc Roy told he police thar
; Holiday had lived with her for five
years. and the news of his marriage
was bitter to her. Looking through
some Of his bsongings which she still
held She found receipt for 2 money
order signed ~ Harriet Hazel Holii-
7 dav III Fitchburg. Mass.
The actress wrote TO that woman to
ask what She knew of Holiday. Har-
= riet replied that Holiday had married
and deserted her. and she would like
to know his whereabouts. Miss lie
i Roy lost no time in sending news ~
/ Holiday s recent marriage.
Harriet Holiday hired a Fitchburg
!, detective and came to this city Satur
i day with him. They went over to 10
+ bokem and found the record of the
marriage 10 Miss Mitsch. Then the
i two made q trip to New Rochelle
j where Mrs. Holiday told the police
) the story Of her alleged marriage q
d Holiday
It She said her maiden name was IIar
:. Iiet Hazel Goff. She met Holiday IL
Hartford Conn, loved him at frs
! sight and readily agreed to elope. OI
! July lj, 1912, She says. they went 4,
7 Thompsonyille, Conn. and were mar
/ ried. For a week Holiday was tn
most devoted of husbands; then h,
disappeared She sought in vain t
i find trace of him, she said, until sh
) received Miss lie Roy 5 letter.
4 FL viii prosecute him on the bic
!, amy charge. said Harriet Hollida,
& last night at the Cort hotel, an,
le then | shall divorce him.
n Mr. Mitseh said he would seek I
De have his daughter 5 marriage annulle'
5 at once
y Holiday denied absolutely that i
had ever married Miss Goff He ad
+. nitted that he hal been married one
n before, but said his first wife had al
OF vorced him and had died. leaving hir
q. with one child, a boy, now eight year
Q. old.
oil Holiday viii get hearing at
- O clock this afternoon.
- Hazel Goff was an extremely prctt
~ girl who worked as waitress in th
~ Brooks House before and after he
\ marriage. She went from here SON
months ago to work in a hotel
Gardner. Mass. Many of her acquain
ances here knew of her marriage
and her separation from the gree
stamp man. They had understood thu
- he was very persistent in his attel
- tions to her until she consented
marry him.