Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-27
Once Shot Himself
for South Orange
Girl.
TAKES RUTH M. POWERS TO
DELAWARE GRETNA GREEN
Dillon, Cupid's Shuttle, Once
Eloped With Pretty
Chorus Girl.

After many romances. Julian S.
Dillon. the son of John Dillon,
wealthy New York broker, is married.
His bride is New Jersey girl, Miss
Ruth M. Powers, IS years old, of 341
Belleview avenue, Trenton, who
eloped with him to the "Gretna
Green" of Wilmington, Del.
The most melodramatic of young
Dillon's love affairs was one that had
its setting in South Orange and near
ly resulted in his death
As a student in Seton Hall. Julian
met pretty Miss Marie Blanchet, the
sister OF one of his classmates and
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
A. Blanchet. of Cumberland road.
The two played tennis together, at
tended the social events of the col
| lege and became good friends. Then
Julian went away to Yale.
Elopes with Chorus Girl.
He never forgot his first romantic
attachment for Miss Blanchet, how
ever, although one very stirring
elopement with a chorus girl inter-
vened
Miss Blanchet was playing tennis
with girl friend, Miss Marie Dom
nelly, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
I James F. Donnelly, of Vose avenue,
| South Orange, one day last June at
the South Orange Field Club, when
| the love-lorn Julian drove up in a
/ carriage he had hired at the railroad
station.
He bribed a caddy to carry hote
to Miss Blanchet. The girl smiled
amusedly when the missive was
handed to her. She tore it open,
read it, gave startled exclamation
and tore it up. Then she went on
playing
In this note, il is said Julian told
her that if she would not elope with
him he would kill himself.
Miss Blanchet watched the road
very closely and in a short time she
saw Julian being driven by. He
looked so detected that she called to
Miss Donnelly and both girls FOL
lowed the carriage up the mountain
Girls Find Him in Woods. Shot.
They were well into the woods
when they heard a shot. Running
forward they came upon Julian lying
unconscious beside the road. He had
! tried to put a bullet into his heart,
l but he had succeeded only in giving
| himself bad shoulder wound.
After two weeks in the Orange
! Memorial Hospital. Julian was dis
charged and arraigned for attempted
suicide.
/ Whether or not Julian's melo-
! dramatic attempt to win Miss Blan-
/ chefs affection actually softened her
heart and made her willing to run
! away with him, was never known,
F! but her parents whisked her away
TO a Rochester convent secure from
the molestations of too persistent
suitors.
Both the Blanchet and Donnelly
families moved away from South Or
anee.
| A wear before that Dillon figured
as the principal character in an elope-
ment to New Haven, but on his re-
turn to New York he was unable TO
assure himself whether he was mar
ried or not. The young woman
whom Dillon said then might be his
wife was Miss Sue Young, who was
in the chorus of THE Kiss waltz
comedy playing then at the CASINO
Dillon has lately been a member
of the Morton Opera Company, now
PLAYING at the Trent Theatre, Iren-
ton. He was introduced to MISS
| Powers by Miss Peggy Conan, OF
White Plains. n. Y, and after
courtshipN of several weeks he ana
the extremely beautiful H-year-oio
girl slipped away to Wilmington yes
terday. The Rev. George L. WORE
Delaware's marrying parson, MADE
them man and wife
Mr.. and Mrs Dillon. it is under
stood. will reside with the bride
groom's parents in New York city