New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-03
BYRON CHANDLER
WILL WE'D AGAIN
Miss Luella Gear, After
Auto Crash, Says She IS
His FianCee.

BYRON Chandler. known on Broadway
as 1.-THE Million-Dollar Kid" may soon
be married again, according to Miss
Luella Gear, Of 3O1 East Sixty-eighth
Street, who said yesterday that she
was Mr.. Chambers fanc6e.
Miss Gear made this statement fol
lowing an automobile accident on the
west drive i'm Central Park yesterday
afternoon. \ car which she was driv-
ing collided with a closed coach con-
tanning Miss Edith Hendricks, sister
Of Harmon ". Hendricks. Of 10 East
Forty-fourth street. Miss Gear told
the police that the car belonged to
Nr. Chandler and that she vas his
hancee. In the machine with her was
Frederick Really, Of 357 East Seventy
eighth Street who is Nr. Chambers
chauffeur.
Venture with Grace La Rue.
Mr.. Chambers matrimonial advent
ures have gained him much publicity.
His first wife was Miss Grace Strecner,
Of New Jersey She was granted
divorce on May 10. 1909. Soon after
I'll T.
actress. who was the divorced wife OF
Charles Il. Burke, appeared at Auburn
dale, Mass. as man and wife. lhey
said they were married, and that was
ah they would say.
They went TO London and Paris.
where the boy millionaire bought
big auto coach and ran II from
London TO Brighton and Windsor
i'm competition with Alfred G. Van
derbilt. subsequently they made
many trips abroad, but in Jan
uarv. 1919. while they were in Lon
don. the couple ceased TO live together.
Miss La Rue returned to this country
the following April, and when Mr..
Chandler followed her a week later
she Immediately sued him for separa-
tion on the grounds Of cruelty.
Miss Ia Rue also wanted allmony,
and. fearing that her husband would
leave New York, she had him arrested.
lie escaped Ludlow Street jan wh"n
his mother gave bail for him fifteen
minutes before it was time for him to
be locked up.
Previous 10 his first marriage Mr..
Chandler was sued st about the same
time by two chorus girls for breach
Of promise.
Get Million from Grandmother.
Byron Chandler is thirty-fve years
old He inherited his fortune from
his father. who was n banker IN Man
chester. \. II. After his father died,
Chandler went 20 the Amoskeag Bank,
I'm Manchester, and drew $4,000 As
he came gavly down the bank steps he
waved the package Of bank bills and
.houted. "Now for joy" In 1871 he
ACQUIRED q million dollars additional
e-or the estate Of his grandmother,
Mrs Benjamin 2. Martin, Of Man
chester.
When Miss La Rue brought her suit
against him Chandler insisted that he
MAS The victim Of instrumentation.
lie averred that he never beat up
noblemen. never creatd riots in Paris,
was not worth a million and never had
bten. never ran after chorus girls,
never threw away good automobiles and
wasn't A spendthrift. lie denied that
arv Of the stories which had been
nrirted about his life abroad were
true.
Vr Chandler cannot be too hopeful OF
setting out upon another matrimonial
venture in the near future. She de-
MED last evening that her daughter
was engaged, but admitted that she
nd MIR Chandler were friends.
After Yesterdays accident Miss Gear
,,,s served with a summons charging
bor with operating an automobile win
ont license. The summons IS return
able in the Yorkville court today