New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-02
.TDO' NO NOVELTY
TO MRS. GOURAUD
Wed Thrice, ConfesSes in
Lord VIII Case She's "Fa-
miliar with Ceremony"

Mrs. AIMEE Crocker Gillig Gouraud.
who admits playing the role OF bride
in three wedding ceremonies and dis
putes the records Of a fourth. held a
court and witnesses fascinated yester-
day while she told OF another mar
riage in which she was content to play
the minor par; Of witness. That wa
away back IN 1855, however, before
adventures in matrimony had become
so important feature OF ner life.
Mrs. Gouraud's testimony was pro-
duccd as the chief proof Of the state
mcnts Of Eugene Ferrar that she IS
the widow Of Theodore a. Lord, n
wealthy Yonkers lawyer, who scat
tered his estate of $4,000 in numer-
Gus gifts to friends. Mrs. Ferrar, or
Mrs. Lord, according to the decision
in the present case. says that they
we're married in a littp room in the
San Francisco City Hall, in 1888.
At the time the wedding ceremony
was repeated ny an alderman, or mayor
or something OF equal importance
MIS-. Fcrrar IS not certain what Mrs
Gouraud q reported TO nave been
standing al the elbows Of the princi-
pals. blusning and in other msidenly
WAYS giving tnem all the moral en-
couragemcnt at her command. festcr-
day she appeared before Surrogate
SAWYER. Of Westminster County, and
told IN, tory herself.
"Where is your home ~ asked Charles
". Sunot. counsel for Nrs. Ferrar, a. -
ter Mrs. Goursud had seated herself IN
the witness chan and carefully ar
ranged "a heavy rope OF pearls
"Ny home ,n Paris. hut am no"
living ia Manhattan she SAID.
Tel thc court what YOU know aDou'
this marriage" said he lawyer.
"O.e Gay iu November. 1855, Mrs
Ferr.r came around TO see me and
asked me 10 come around 10 the mousse
the following morning. as she mad
something cf Importance 10 say 10 me
w.mt there. and wc immediately go'
q carriage and grove 20 the City iial.
D e.
Lord and another man.
The ceremony. according TO Mrs
Gouraud. wa. I'll peculiarly silent affair
Mr. Lord said nothing, and, AS far g.
sic could recall. nobody else said any
thing EXCEPT the unnamed individual
VINO read the marriage form.
AFRO you familiar with the wedding
ceremony ." asked the lawyer.
"Weu. think I am" answered Mrs
T Gouraud. with a little smile.
Then describe H." said the LAWYER
ooh. couldn't. Quite Impossible,
she answered. 81 know the man SAD
DO YOU take this woman 10 De your
lawful wife" and he replied that nc
did, and then She was asked the same
question in regard 10 nun.
Then j. was that Attorney Sinno'
announced that 20 would De Impossible
to producc the marriage certificate OF
other records o., the wedding necausl
t5ey had been destroyed IN the Sar
TraDcisco fire. Mrs. Gouraud sdmitte,
,ba, her knowledge OF the domestic re
iatious e the two ended right there
sinre she hadn't seen Lord agar ana
had soon Mrs Fcrrar only after Il lapse
Of fifteen years.
~ nh- Ola Nlc '"f 49,
an was asked. -.
THAT she was very UNHAPPY INA
Lord had disappes and that she va
doing everything in her power 10 nho
him" said Mrs. Gouraud.
/ Bv this time the executors OF th'
Lord will began 20 exhibit an interes'
in the actual life OF the couple sitel
heir marriage. They agreed to senc
a commission 20 California 20 iearr
where thew lived. and how. "a well a.
~. identity OF the mysterious person
Tho reformed the ceremony.