The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-04
WEALTHY N. Y. MAN
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had come to the city on a shopping trip
and could not be located
The police. however. communicated
with Malcolm r. Lowell. stock broker
and president Of the William A. Mills
Brass Company, who. they learned from
cards in the dead mans pockets. was
friend OF the Waters family. Mr.. Lowell
went to Grand Central Terminal and
there waited for Mrs. Waters to pass
through on her way back to Bronxvile.
The mother received the news from
Mr.. Lowell and collapsed. She was
taken to the Hotel Commodore and
from there to the Lowell home. at
Goldens Bridge, n. Y.
From Mrs. Waters the detectives
learned that Mr.. Waters had tanned
trip to Madeira. In the shc time
that physicians permitted them to talk
with her detectives could obtain no in
formation from Mrs. Waters as to the
identity OF the man registered at the
Plymouth as Dunn" She said none OF
her sons friends answered to the fel-
lows description.
Mr. Waters was known in practically
all Of the principal cities of the world
and in many of the small ones besides
Since his graduation from Columbia Uni
versity he had made travelling his hobby.
He had been engaged In no profession
and spent all his time as q "globe trot-
ter" He was As years old.
Member of Old Families.
Dispatches from Providence, r. l.,
last night described Mr.. Waters as a
descendant of two very old Rhode
Island families-the Vaughans and the
Waters. His father, Horace Waters.
one OF the best known piano manufac-
turers in the country. died about ten
years ago and since his death the bust
ness had been carried on without at
tention from the son.
The Waters family home was at East
Greenwich, r. l., but Mr. Waters was
little known there. AS globe trotter'
and man of leisure he spent little time
there. Last summer however, he was
at his mothers home. He came to New
York about two weeks ago and accom-
panied her to the hotel at Bronxville.
The reports from Providence named
Frank B. Vaughan of East Greenwich.
as an uncle Mrs. Daniel Goodwin. wife
Of the Rev. Daniel Goodwin. one of the
oldest and most prominent Episcopal
c,errgymen In Rhode Island, was men,
toned as an aunt, and Mrs. Daniel A.
Pierce, who is socially prominent in
Providence, as another close relative.
John L. Walters. a we'll known business
man in Kansas City, also Is related to
the murdered man.
In club circles in London and Palm
Beach, Mr.. Waters was among the most
prominent. He held membership in the
Beach Club at the Florida resort and
was member of the Devonshire Club
of London.
In 1896 Mr.. Waters married Elizabeth
L. Blanc, better known as Baroness
Blanc, an actress. The marriage caused
sensation in circles in which the
Waters family was well known.
Elizabeth Blanc was daughter of e.
L. Nicholson OF Philadelphia and at the
time of her marriage to Mr. Waters she
was considered one of the most beautiful
women in that city. She already had
been married twice when she met Mr..
Waters, and within a'week after the
third ceremony it was seen by friends
OF the couple that they would not be
together long.
They lived together just thirty-one
days. The young Mrs. Waters then went
back TO the stage and in France. not
long afterward. let 1t be known that she
was about to seek divorce. The decree
was obtained In Chicago. and at the time
she filed her complaint, she declared that
while In France she had been forced to
apply to the French courts for protection.