The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-21
DANIEL G. REID
SEEKS DIVORCE;
ACCUSES WIFE
Former Richmond Multi-Mil-
llonalre Alleges Misconduct
With Russian Captain.

NEW YORK, May 21.-Daniel G.
Reid OF 9o7 Fifth Avenue, Chairman OF
the Executive Committee of the Nav
ors Committee of Welcome to Home
coming Troops, filled suit in the Su.
preme Court yesterday for divorce
from Margaret NJ. Carrere Reid. his
third wife. who was formerly an act.
ress. Shortly after the suit was fled
1t was said by person in the conf.
oence Of Mr.. Reid that the separation
action brought by Mrs. Reid, in which
no complaint was ever served, but in
which summons was handed to Mr.
Aeld in the Pennsylvania Station on
rep. 28 last, had been dropped.
Ex-Judge W. X. Olcott, attorney for
Mr.. Reid, refused to discuss the suit
against Mrs. Reid, but it was learned
that an order was signed by Supreme
Court Justice Whitaker YESTERDAY di-
recting the service of the papers on
mrs. Reid at Redwood Farms, near
Redwood City, Cal, where 1t was said,
she had gone to spend the summer,
on the ground that she intended to re-
main there for long period and could
not be served in this State.
Accused of Misconduct.
The complaint In the suit IL locked
up In the Office of County Clerk VIII
liam F. Schneider but, it is understood
mat the correspondent named is a man
who styled himself Captain Sampson
Icherneh" of the Russian Army. Mrs.
Reid is accused of misconduct at the
Hotel Chatham in this city between
April 4 and IL last, and at the Hotel
6elleView, San Francisco, between
April % and 80 last.
Mrs. Reid left her husbands Fifth
avenue home before the separation
action was brought against him. and
went TO the st. Regis hotel, where she
maintained an apartment. It was said
there that she had left the hotel In
the middle of April At the Hotel
Chatham. mentioned in the divorce
suit, 1t was said that Mrs. Reid had
not lived there, at least not under her
own name. Her attorney, Robert H.
Eldrer and her mother, Mrs. Carrere.
SAID she had gone to Redwood City.
Followed by Detectives.
Mrs. Reid has been under constant
surveillance of detectives from the
time she filed her separation suit. it
was said. and the fact that she had
gone to Redwood City, and had rented
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the season, was made known to Mr..
Reid by the detectives who were close
at hand during her trip to the coast.
Mrs. Reid appeared in "The Chinese
Honeymoon" 1.-THE Runaways," and
the West Point Cadet" before she
met Mr.. Reid and retired from the
stage. Mr.. Reid and she were in Eu-
rope together during the year their
marriage was announced, and when
they returned here on different boats
they would not admit that a ceremony
had taken place. Although the cere-
mony was thought to have been per
formed in London the place now is
said to have been Paris.
sOne Child Survives.
Mr.. Reds second marriage to Miss
Clarice Agnew, also an actress, was
contracted with great secrecy in 1900.
She died in 1904. two years before the
year Mr.. Reid was said to have mar
ried his present wife. His first wife
died about twenty-five years ago in
Chicago. The only surviving child
is Rhea Reid Topping, who became
the wife of Henry J. Topping, son OF
John A. Topping. of the Republic Iron
and Steel Company. Mr.. Reid erected
hospital in his home town, Rich
mond, Ind, to the memory of a de-
ceased son. His fortune has been es-
timated at s50,000,000. He has been
generous toward many war charities.