New-York tribune., 1920-04-09
Ill. Haveneyer
Sued by Girl
For 100000
Miss Harriet Hearn, Mani
curist, Charges That Kin
of Sugar Retiner Broke
Promise 10 Marry Her
Feels Sorry for His Wife
Defendants Counsel Calls
Case Joke and Declares
Plaintiff Has "A Husband

Harriet Hearn, twenty-eight years
old, manicurist formerly employed
at Grand Central Terminal, filed
100000 breach Of promise suit yes
terday against Hector Havemeyer, of
375 Park Avenue, relative of the
sugar retiner and himself a manufac-
New York's social set.
The complaint. fled by Rosenthal g.
Halperin, of 1476 Broadway, states that
Havemeyer was introduced to Miss
Hearn last November by Detective
Foster, of the New York Central Rail
road Company as "Mr. Palmer" and
that she did not know his right name
until after he had broken his promise
to marry her.
Replying to the complaint, Henry
Utall, Of 32 Broadway, attorney for
Havemeyer, denied all of the charges;
He declared that his client considered
the suit a ''joke,' and said that the
girl was the wife Of Garry Hearn
and therefore was not in a position to
marry again.
The plvntiif says that after meet
ing Havemeyer by appointments made
at Grand Central Terminal he en-
gagged rooms for her at the Richmond
Hotel. on Forty Street near
fifth Avenue, and visited her often
there.
Miss Hearn told her story to a re-
porter for The Tribune last night as
she sat in her dimly lighted little
room in q furnished room house at 1873
East Forty-fourth Street. Her brown
eyes appeared weary and her brown
hair fell unevenly from beneath wide
brimmed black straw hat. She had
;,,c+ l,op,a from, Iuorl5
Last November" she said, "a man
was introduced to me by Mr.. Foster,
and this man, whom | met as Mr.. Pal
mcr,' told me he had been watching
me for many months and that was
the only woman in the world for him.
Il did not know at that time, Of
course. that he was Hector Iavemeyer,
and when my friends said to me: Har-
riet, that man is millionaire ! re-
piled: 4 don't believe it. never heard
of a Palmer who was a millionaire.
Phone Calls Kept Her Busy
"Mr Palmer called me by telephone
every day Of the week, sometimes a
half dozen times a day, and 1T kept the
red caps busy calling me to the phone
upstairs. | almost lost my position on
account Of the many calls received
from him.
"At night he would call for me and
We would go walking. and then after
while he engaged suite for me at the
Richmond Hotel | didn't know he was
married. and, Of course. thought every
thing was all right, because it was not
more than a month after we met that
he Id me we soon would take q trip
to the South and that we would be mar
ried before we returned.
He said ! would get diamond rings
and fur coats. But never got them.
Time after time he told me how 'one
of these days he would take me into
society and that l should meet the
GOulds and other prominent families
When shiny new automobiles w)ulo
pass us IN the street, he promi cd me
would have them, too
Denies That She Is Married
Miss Hearn was asked if she was
married. to which she replied empha-
tically No"
Have you ever been married ?"
No"
DO you know Garry Hearn men
toned as your husband by attorneys
for Mr. Havemeyer
81 have heard of him"
She said she had promised 70 paw 10
her attorneys half of the sum sought
in the suit in case she won. and de-
clared she believed that to be fair.
DO you expect TO collect 500 900 ?"
she was asked.
"Well.' she replied, ~ Just don't
know. Does il seem right that | should
have been treated that way? Why, the
only things ever got from him were
flowers and candy and promises | did
receive q lot of flowers from him, but,
apparently. they weren't paid for. as
am told the bill is still standing
against him at the shop. He wouldn't
even pay my room bill at the hotel.
'lt was one day not so long ago that
he met me at luncheon and told me
his name was Hector Havemeyer. I
was astounded. He told me he was
married. and | said that Mt least he
ought TO pay the bills he had incurred
for me, and | asked him how he could
leave me alone, now that ! had accepted
him for what he had told me he was.
TO me the most pitiful side OF the
affair IS the wife of Havemeyer II is
terrible for her. ! have never heard
from her. Often when we were ont
automobile riding passed his home
in Park Avenue and he would point
it cut to me-"
Mr.. Hnvemeyer is 80 years old. In
1902 he married Miss Ray NJ Russell
They have one daughter, eleven years
old. He devotes much of his time
to athletics