Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-03

New York.-Seeking an annulment
OF his marriage to Asta Asche, his
bride of six weeks, Herman 7. Asche.
q wealthy importer of 400 Riverside
Drive, is pasing his claims before Su-
preme Court Justice Gavegan upon an
alleged novelette, confession"
The short story written by the I'M
porter's wife. 8 years old, sketches
events with such rapidity and with
such worldly sapience as to entitle 1T to
the description of novelette,"
The importers attorney says the
story was written after the bride had
left her home on Riverside Drive to
return to young artist whom she had
loved before marrying Mr.. Asche, VINO
is 40 years old. Mr.. Asche's counsel
alleges that the novelette, reveals the
girls plot to get his money. Asche's
suit for annulment is in reply to his
brides suit for separation. The wife
is now drawing $3.50 month alimony.
Daughter of Sculptor
Mrs. Asche is the daughter of An
drew O'Connor. an Irish American
sculptor, Paris salon medalist and de-
signer of the doors of st. Bartholo-
news Church. Mrs. O'Connor di-
vorced him in 1906, alleging that he
had eloped to Paris with pretty
model.
The Asche family is of good position
in Sweden and Norway. Mr.. Asche's
father is retired Diplomat and his
brother, Harold, is chief justice of
Norway. Asche is junior member of
the firm of Won Bremen. Asche & Co.
Asche tells in a long affidavit how he
woed Asia O'Connor, who was an es-
thetic dancer before he married her.
He first saw her in Norway when she
was years old in the home of Mrs.
O'Connor's married sister. When the
girl was 1 s he told her of his love. She
had married young man of Bushnell
Vile, n. Y. The marriage was an
nulled, the matrimonial partnership
that he knew nothing of this mar
riage.
Ran Away On Wedding Day
Asche succeeded in winning Asta's
hand following the annulled marriage.
On their wedding day Asia is alleged
TO have run away from her grand
mothers home in Brooklyn, and he
learned that she had gone to New
Haven.
asked for a week to find out her own
mind" 1t was on March 2 that Asia.
decided to marry the importer. On
May she left home after writing
note of farewell. He found his bride
and her mother in New Haven.
Later the bride went to Glen Springs
and when there n suit for separation
was filed, alleging cruelty. He offered
to take her back She refused to come
and went to live in the Standish Arms
Apartments in Brooklyn. 1t is alleged
when there she wrote "Justice?' the
novelette, on which Asche in part now
bases his claims for an annulment of
the marriage.
The story is said to have been en-
tirely in Asta's handwriting on Standish
notepaper. Asia Is supposed to be
"Olivia Standish."
Charged With Loving Another
Asche says in his affidavit in refer
cnce to the novelette,: I'm the final
paragraph the plot came to light and
events occurred in real life Just as she
had forecast in the novelette,. Olivia
said she would sue Herman for a sepa-
ration and make ugly charges against
him and that she would win alimony-
and that by doctors she would prove
that while she had lived with one as
a wife she loved another all the while
and was to me but wife in name"
Following are excerpts from the
story. "Justice?":
Olivia Standish was young, far too
young to know so we'll the byways and
the easiest way out of them. Not that
Olivia wasn't all a young woman
should be who was about to enter into
matrim ony. Perhaps her reasons for
keeping an unsullied body were more
because she realized with that as an
asset she could play for higher stakes
ctnles. At any rate. she was unapaiiea