The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-06
Former Show Girl Granted
a Divorce from the Son of
Rich Steel Maker
MARRIAGE WAS A
RUNAWAY AFFAIR
Honeymoon Lasted Only Few Weeks
Then the Bridegroom fastened Back
to His Parents-What Happened Be
tween Father and Son Not Known.

NEW 1ORh, req. O--IltdHOI rem
dleton Davidson Ream has something
more substantial than lovesick dogeerel
as a sequel to her sensational marriage
to Louis Marshall Ream, son of the
late Norman B. Ream, wealthy steel
maker and financier. 1t is q verdict
for divorce, with $4,000 in real
money as alimony and the right to
resume her maiden name The decision
was given in the supreme court, in Put
brought
With this decision, which was not
contested by Ream, who was heir 10
the bulk of his father vast fortune,
ii is believed, will end one of the most
unusual and exciting divorce cases that
has held the attention of the. public in
recent years. First attracting attention
early in September of 1911, the ease has
at different times played prominently
IN the papers ever since.
On the afternoon OF September !,
seven years ago. Louis Marshall Ream.
% years old and just out of Princeton,
hurried over to Hoboken with Miss
Pendleton, popular and pretty showgirl,
and there made her his wife for better
or for worse. SO the record shows De
spite the wealth and prominence of the
family of the happy bridegroom, or per-
haps because of it. there were no frills
or wedding bells for the occasion. \
justice of the peace, instead of min;
lister, performed the ceremony,
Mr.. Ream at once motored back to
New York with his bride They did not
90 to on Of the hotels but to the apart
ment of Miss Pendleton or Mrs Ream
! in West Elfty-second street.-the same
! place Miss Pendleton had lived the
weeks and months she was being show
| Owe" -, 'neariean Beauty roses, love
letters and the tenderest of tender
! ~oetieal efforts on the art of the Young
man.
/ It was a. happy day in tv Q young
lives. But it didn' last long. Ream,
| shortly after their arrival home, got
to thinking about what father would
! say. At least he told his bride ~ L,,,r
! or SO after their arrival in New York
| II was very necessary for him to run
| up TO the elder Ream 5 country place
at Thompson, Conn, and gently brea 4
! the news. OF course. Mrs. Ream did
| not object. 1t had TO be done and she
| told friends after his departure of the
wonderful honeymoon and the life to
follow they had planned when her IA
ther-in-law had been persuaded to for,
| give their imrulsiveness
just what the elder Ream said TO his
son, when the latter broke the news tc
| MIN, has never been made a part Of the
record But anyway, young Ream did
not return. 1t later transpired he had
informed the president of the New
1 York Trust company, where he was EN-
ployed as assistant secretary, he haC
| married Miss Pendleton and he was ole
enough to know what he was doing
That Norman B. Ream had been in
formed Of his son s hasty marriage wa.
made clear by the fact one of his at
| torneys was in conference with hin
when the bridegroom arrived.
Neither the father nor son ever told
all that occurred at their interview. Blu
the result OF the parental decision ant
legal action that followed was that OF
IsJanuary 10, 1912, Judge Chester of Al
oany, after reviewing the report of Ref
cree John I. Norton of this city. an
tnuiled the Hoboken marriage and tht
I Young wife who had planned lon,
llfe of happiness, was given s3s, O0C
instead Young Ream was taken bacl
into the good will CT his father an,
Miss Pendleton interested herself in til,
breeding of fancy dogs.
But in March, 1916, much to the sur
! nf bp no Tol
the case, the young show girl, who ha,
since played small part in 1.-The Littl
, Lady in Blue, = employed counsel an,
brought suit to have the annulmcnt 0
her marriage set aside on the groun,
she was induced by fraudulent misrep
, rcsentation to bring the action whicI
resulted in the marriage being declare
, void
II October, the same year, Justic
t Borst of Amsterdam, before whom tn
hearing was had, vacated the orde
which had set young Ream free.
r And his decision is one that will o
should be long remembered by a
i wealthy young men who suddenly dc
eide they want a wife and then Just a
suddenly decide they don t. His con
g ment on the course taken by thi
:. wealthy young man was severe. He ha
' read samples of the poetry written b
!. Ream to Miss Pendleton and in hi
decision referred to the poetical wooin
and added that from its compos
ton he had every reason TO believ
lit was entirely original with him.
! With the annulment of the marriae
set aside Miss Pendleton then, afte
this decision had been upheld by til
4 higher courts, brought her suit for d
! vorec and alimonv, charging desertio