New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-08
Author, Who Confessed He
Was Extraordinary, Can't
Find Wife, Aged 60.
WASN'T OLD ENOUGH
TO BE "MOTHERLY"
Young Man, Who Wants a Dr.
vorce, Sorry She Was Only
IS Years His Senior.

That same Harold Susman. who has
heretofore admitted that he was an
extraordinary young man, IS looking
for his sixty-year-old wife. He has
even gone so far that he has written
70 the editor of New Haven paper
IN an attempt to trace his elderly
bride.
81 wish YOU could help me locate
nv wife" he plaintively writes.
Mr.. Susman. who is now thirty-two
wears old and lives at sos West
Eightv-second Street, was married TO
Mrs. LILLIAN Annette Coe on Novem-
her 6, 1912. She was the widow OF I'd
ward T. Coe. of Torrington, Conn,
treasurer Of the American Brass Com
pany. He left his wife about S250,Ooo.
Susman and Mrs Coe didn't tell any
one they were to be married. They
lust walked of and got the license and
had Alderman John Mccain perform
the ceremony in New York's City Hall.
Lists His Own Virtues.
In his letter to the editor of The New
Haven Union the communication runs
"a column and a half-Susman says he
met Mrs. Coe in August, 1912, "and she
expressed great interest IN me-. AFTER
three weekends at her home in New
Haven. they decided. he says, to go
through a marriage ceremony, so as to
hermit us TO continue living together
without creating criticism. Mrs. zoe
told me Of the wealthy old lady VINO
had lived in the same street, VINO had
been taken TO court by her son be-
cause she had a young Yale student
come TO live with her. The son had
guardian appointed, so Mrs. Coe IN
formed me, adding that she did not
want either OF her brothers, who 1--we
in Torrington. TO adopt similar tao
tics where she was concerned"
Merely to let the editor know some
thing about himself, Mr.. Susman ex-
plains that he has no bad habits does
not even know how TO trot. lie says:
For ten years I have not used to-
bacco or Intoxicating liquor. and 90
not know how to dance or how TO play
billiards or any game of cards. When-
ever visited Mrs. Coe ] took blole
along. and read TO her the hrst thlng
in the morning and the last thlng AZ
night She told me again and again
that she was glad and grateful that l
had come into her HE.
The main feature of the marriage
seems m have been that Mrs. Coe said
she didn't need a wedding ring-she
never used one at her first wedding,
many wears before Mr.. Susman was
horn. He says of his bride: "She had
snow white hair. wore gold-rimmed
spectacles, had grandmotherly man
nor and impressed me as beng gentle
old lady, so I esteemed and respected
her. She said that ] appealed to the
maternal instinct in her and we were
20 live together as mother ana SON
She addressed me in speaking and writ
ing as her boy"
Not So "'MOtherly."
Every detail was discussed and ar
ranged before the marriage. Mr.. Sus-
man saws he was prepared 70 lace
All the ridicule and abuse Of beng
inc moor Young husband to rich old
woman" He adds: 81 have had many
middle aged women friends in my lie
and have always discussed matters OIL
platonic affection and splrltual sym
pathy with them, though ! had never
met any woman who agreed quite so
unreseryedly with my ideas and ldeaIs
as did Mrs. Coe.'
After the wedding Mrs. Coe went to
Vow Haven and Susman TO his par
ontg' home. II was his suggestion
Rut Mrs. Coe called him up twice that
night He went to New Haven next
dan "and found the eighty-year-e.d
mt Of my wife's first husband, Miss
RIA Coe. of Waterbury, had arrived
for visit She soon departed, how
ever Nv wife then took down all OF
her first husbands pictures and
burned up her old wedding veil and
slippers"
Mrs. Susman not only interrupted
ber husband when he wanted TO write
magazine stories. but she even wanted
to leave him 100000 He declined 10
allow will for 100000 or for Sl75'-
600. house, furniture, jewelry and per
sonal belongings. And he declined to
LOT Mrs. Coe make over to him any OF
The $3.50 900 worth of stock certificates
she held in the American Brass Com
Two days before Christmas. and
seven weeks after his marriage, Sus-
man saws he just had to quit. He
went to his home in New York, de
cidedly ill.," Even a trip 10 the West In
dies did not make Mr. Susman believe
that he could live with his wife.
He saws her ideas were quite ire
concilable" with his, and when they
cot back to the L. S. A. he went
10 New Haven and packed my belong
ings. refusing TO listen to my. wlfes
avowels Of affection, promises of refor-
nation, offers of financial settlements
and I returned 10 New York"
Several letters came to Mr.. Susman