Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-03
ATTACK BY ENEMIES"
SAYS MRS. ST. CYR AS
SHE DEFENDS HUSBAND
Couple Not Estranged by AS
sertion He's Not French
man of Ancient
Lineage
WIFE BREAKS SILENCE

Mrs. st. Cyr who as the widow Of
! silent Smith Inherited his 500 100000
! broke silence today at the Bellevue
! Stratford for tho first time since she and
! her young husband hurriedly left their
! expensive suite at THE Breakers Palm
| Beach, Fla. where they were stopping
! when the New York World declared IL
! had discovered that ST. Cy7 was not a
! descendant Of an old French family, but
no other than Jack Thompson. of
Waco Tex, former ncwsboy. haberdash-
, cry salesman and impecunious chorus
man.
This is only an attack upon my hus-
band by his enemies" she said today
to a friend, who was the only person
she has consented to see IN her apart
ments at the hotel since she and st. Cyr
arrived there last night from Broad
street Station, having come from WASH
ingtOn, on their way to New York
CHEERING ITEM OF GOSSIP
That Mrs. St Cyr has aligned herself
on the side of her husband was received
not only as news, but as a cheering item
of gossip at the hotel, which had been
astir ever since their arrival over the
outcome Of the affair Rumors had ac-
Companied the st. Cyrs on their trip
North that Mrs. st. Cyr had left Palm
Beach against the wishes of st. Cyr he
being disposed to ignore the allegations
made In New York about his identity.
St Cyr, good-looking and well-dressed
young man, said he was Jean Harald Ed
ward St Cyr when he married Mrs.
Smith. He said he was the scion of an
ancient and distinguished family Of Trou !
vile, France. This was evidently be- |
lievcd by Mrs. Smith. Before her mar
riage to Smith she was Mrs. William |
Rhinelander Stewart. She is the sister I!
of Mrs Anthony j. Drexel Of this city. |
After ST. Cyr brought his wife TO the |
hotel last night he left and it was sup |
posed that he had gone to another hotel. !
This seemed an erroneous Impression at |
noon today, and 1t was then said that he |
was with her and that they were plan
ming to leave the city, presumably for |
New York.
"St Cyr has not left his wife for more |
than five minutes since he married her"
said one aged gossip in the grill room.
So 1t is not likely that he is not here IL
she is
DRINK TO THE NEWSBOY."
Her name was not on the register, but
this did not prove anything, as it turned
out.
The ease" has proved. If nothing else.
that men are worse Eossips than women.
1t was their sole topic of conversation
at bar and lunch table. Said a man
whose highball had just been prepared:
why, it's not right the way they've
been bounding this couple, What have
they got against st. Cyr. anyhow? Only
that he was once a newsboy. Well what
harm is there in having been a newsboy?
Here, clink glasses and drink to the news
boy"
Some of the rumors that fluttered about
were quickly disproved. For instance, it
was said that Mrs. ST. Cyr was in this
city for a conference with silent"
Smiths cousin, w. Barkle Henry. but II
was soon learned that Mr.. Henry was in
Florida so that theory fell through
nj known n
journalists as suspicious" when they
can't identify them, lowered about the
corridors. These suspects were promptly
decided to be detectves-private detec-
tives. guarding the interests of the fabu-
lousy wealthy Mrs. st. Cyr.
Still more suspicious, however, were the
corps of photographers who marched and
up and down in front of
the elevators and clerks desks, waiting
for the much-discussed couple.
The photographers beleaguered all en-
frances to the hotel, and some were even
stationed at the Broad Street Station.
When Mr.. and Mrs. ST. Cyr left Wash
ngton Yesterday afternoon they had |
managed TO avoid interviewers all the
way from Palm Beach and there was no
stop on the way to New York except in
his city. Here st. Cyr evidently expect
ID to run the gauntlet of questioning. for
when he left the station and took his
wife to the Bellevue-Stratford he left her
here and hurried out of the building
he returned later on, unseen.
While Mrs. ST. Cyr engaged a room she
8 not registered at the Bellevue-Strat-
ord. This is in accordance with the man :
ler of travelling adopted by the couple
n Washington. While there, at the New
Willard they did not register. Phone
'alls and kilograms came for them today,
)ut the postmen and messenger boys
we're told that nobody by that name Is
lere" and there was no forwarding ad-
lress given. apparently.