New Britain herald., 1916-08-07
CANNES BROKE UP
 HIS HAPPY HOME
Kahn Left Wife As He "COuldn't
 Stand the Dogs"

New York, Aug. "A divorce has
 been granted in the supreme court to Mrs. Lucille G. Kahn, daughter of Albert H. Gross. member of the New York Stock Exchange, from Rudolf H. Kahn, cousin of Otto H. Kahn banker, with offices in New York and Paris. The decree was granted on recommendations by Phil ip J. Dunn, referee. Mrs. Kahn is the granddaughter of James Selig man, the banker, and 8 niece of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim, in whose home she met Kahn. The couple had no children.
 MT. and Mrs. Kahn were married in Paris on Nov. 20, 1909. She al legged in her complaint that her hus- band was guilty of misconduct with a woman unknown to her at the Ho- tel Navarro on Feb. 29 last, and was also unfaithful on various occasions between Sept. 1, 1914, and the date of bringing her suit.
 While the testimony and all pa- pers in the case are not accessible in the county clerks office, 1t was learned that MT. Kahn, who defended  F'latto, was divorced chiefly on the testimony of his father-in-law MT. Gross, who also accompanied the pro- cess server when the papers were served on Kahn at his bachelor apartments, 718 Fifth avenue, on March 28, last. Mrs. Kahn has been living at the home of her father at 1 East Ninety second street since her husband left her in September, 1914
 Mr. Gross, who had known MT. Kahn only a week before his mar riage to Lucille Gross, testified that he tried vainly to bring about a re- conciliation between his daughter and her husband. He said he had num- Der of talks with MT. Kahn and tried to show him that it was "ridiculous'' for him to be living apart from his wife and that she was suffering from the stigma. He said MT. Kahn in sisted on taking bachelor apartm ents, and couldn't be persuaded to do any thing else.
 Dogs Annoyed Hih.
 MT. Gross said that when he asked MT. Kahn his reason for not wanting to live with his wife at the Gross home he said that the dogs an-
 
 We had three little dogs, and told him that if the dogs were all that stood in the way of his living with his wife I would poison the dogs"
 Mr. Gross said that when he found it impossible to induce MT. Kahn to resume living with his wife, and when he heard things that led him to be- lieve she should bring action against him, he retained detectives, who be- gan trailing MT. Kahn on Jan. 24 last and watched him every day until Feb. 23 to 26 and again on Feb. 28 and 29.
 The plaintiffs father said that fin ally on the night of the 29th he got word from the detectives to meet hem at Thirty y-eighth street and Broadway. He induced his brother Louis to go with him, and they met he detectives and went to the Hotel Navarro MT. Gross looked at the register and recognized, as he ex- plained, from Kahn's German style of handwriting, his signature as IN. Ru- do1ph and wife"
 MT. Gross and his brother, with the detectives, got a room diagonal1y across the hall from that occupied by Kahn and one of the detectives on the door. MT. Kahn opened it, and the raiding party en- tered. Kahn had his coat off, and young woman in the room was just buttoning her waist The party left just as soon as MT. Gross had identi- fled Kahn as his son-in-law and had told the detectives that the woman in the room was not Mrs. Kahn.
 Mrs. Kahn did not ask alimony.