New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-10
MRS.G0URAUDILL,
SEEKS NEW H0ME;.
so DOES PRINCE
Disagreement Over Her
Girl Was Reputed Cause
Of Enlargement.
HAD THREE HUSBANDS,
DENIES A FOURTH
Friends of California HeiresS
and Bohemian Puzzled at
Reported London Marriage.

The paths Of Mrs. Aimee Crockcr
Gouraud. the California hciress. and
Prince Alexandra Miskinof. to whom
London SAYS she was married year
ago. have parted. Mrs Croker. as she
has insisted on being known. left the
Hotel McAlpin. where Niskinoff also
lived. on Saturday Lass TO taSe up
apartments at the Hotel Gotham. The
prince held the fort at the McAlpin
until Tuesday. when he, too, departed.
without. however, leaving any forward
ing address.
Whether MiskinofT is Mrs. Gouraud's
fourth husband or no. has been a mat
ter Of dispute since she arrived home
last February. accompanied by him..
and denied there had been a marriage
between the two, as the London re-
ports and the records at London reg
istry tended 10 indicate.
At the Gotham yesterday inqurers
who were not told that Mrs. GOuraud
was out were informed that she is ILL.,.
and advised 10 consult NJ. K. Lawrence.
of so Broadway. her counsel. Mr..
Lawrence yesterday refused TO discuss
the affairs of Mrs. GourauG and the
prince at this time.
Friction Over Young Ward.
The separation of Mrs. Gouraud and
the prince, whom the Russian Embassy
declares is not prince Of that en-
pire, comes as no surprise to her
friends. They have known for some
time that there was serious difference
of opinion between Mrs. Gouraud and
II.
the sixteen year-old ward of Mrs.
Gouraud. These are declared to have
reached a climax at the McAlpin last
week, and the next day the pair called
lawyers in.
Mrs. Gouraud, who is the daughter
Of EDWIN Bryant Croker, who amassed
millions in the early days of Cali
fornia. has been in the limelight since
she was in her teens. first because OF
her marriages and again because OF the
unique entertainments she gave mere
and in Paris. AT one time she was
quoted as offering $4,000 for novel
ideas for balls and dinners. From the
point of view of the spectacular some
of these were worth that price, the
entertainments varying from simple at-
fairs to others where guests were
startled Dy tne sHdhes tHeli h"'NS'0
Her first marriage was to Porter
Ashe, of San Francisco. Tradition on
the Coast has it that Ashe won her in
a poker game from Harry Gillig, who
had also proposed to the beautiful
heiress. Unable to decide between the
two. she is said to have advised them
TO fight q duel, she to marry the win
ner. They decided that freeze-out was
less harmful than pistols and acted
accordingly.
Within year the winner of the
poker duel was loser in the divorce
court, and the loser was winner in
church, for she married Gillig. A few
years later he, too, was divorced.
Then Mrs. Gillig married Jackson
Gouraud. Her new husband, many
years her junior, was an American who
had spent most of his life in Europe.
In New York he was known along
Broadway as a song writer of mediocre
ability and success until he married
the Crocker millions. They took a
house at as West Fifty-sixth Street,
and in short order their entertainments
were the talk of New York and the JOY
of that set which delights in the UNI
usual.
Three years ago Gouraud died after
a brief illness, following an attack OF