New-York tribune., 1921-06-17
Can't Recall
Am Extra Wife.
Says Mackay
Former Vale Athlete Won
elers if He's Amnesia Vic
him and Forget Marriage
to Former FolIies Girl
Names Him in Divorce
Shows a 1915 Newark Lii
cense; Connecticut Bride
Sure He's Not a Bigamisf

Donald Francis Mackay, former Yale
football and baseball player and we'll
known man about town, whom two
women claim as their husband, may
possibly be victim of amnesia.
Olga Hastling declares she is wife
No. 1, and filed suit for divorce in this
county last January to prove it. She
was ziegfeld chorus girl when Mackay
met her.
The former Mrs. J. NJ, Galloway, a
di4orc6e, who was married to the Yale
athlete at Westport, Conn, last De-
cember, stands by her husband and
stoutly maintains that he is innocent
of duplicity.
Mackay himself states that he does
not remember any marriage ceremony
with Miss Hartling, and so answers her
divorce suit. While denying the we'd
ding specifically in the divorce papers,
he qualified his legal reply with a
verbal doubt-he did not remember.
The State of Connecticut, through it's
representative at Westport, has taken
no formal step to present bigamy
charge, and probably will not under the
present law.
These were the chief developments
yesterday in the matrimonial tangle III
which Mackay is playing the central
character.
Kept Marriage Secret
There was one significant point
brought out in the investigation of
Mackay's affairs, however, which
showed that he apparently took all pos
sible precautions to keep his marriage
to Mrs. Galloway secret, He did not
inform even the immediate members of
his family of its occurrence until some
time afterward, according to one of his
iniimats friends.
Not even his mother, Mrs. George D.
Mackay, of Pleasantville, N Y, said
this friend, was Informed of the cere-
mony until some time after it was per-
formed.
Mackay, 1t is reported, says he cam
Olga Hartling, a member of the "Zieg-
field Follies," yet at the apartment
house, 245 West Fifty-frst Street,
where the chorus girl lived for nine
years, she frequently stated that
Mackay was her husband. There is also
marriage license issued in Newark on
May %, 1915, q marriage certificate
showing that the ceremony was per-
formed by Fl. Edward Wolf, judge of
the Third Criminal Court, and a d.
vorce suit filed by Mrs. Olga Hartling
Maciay against him in this county. In
the face of this evidence the Yale man
still persists that he does not remem-
Der the occurrence.
Tf-.,a g hof
the couple. did not live harmoniously
in the Fifty-frst Street apartment,
where she was known by her maiden
name Although il is said they sepa-
rated several months after the we'd
ding, investigation made at the apart
ment building yesterday disclosed that
man bearing strong resemblance
to Mackay Che was described rs a
good looking chap, always we'll
dressed") was seen in Miss Harting's
: company up to 1918, three years after
the Newark incident Mackay is can
did in admitting that he knew the girl
intimately a statement which is corrob-
Grated by his mother, who says, how
ever, that her son has not associated
with the young actress for the past
five years.
Inquiries at the present residence Of
Mackay, so East Fifty eighth Street,
yesterday, resulted in the information
that Mr.. and Mrs. Mackay had left
there earlier in the day, ostensibly for
a trip out of town, as they carried
baggage and departed in taxicab.
No Action in Connecticut
No action has been taken by the
Connecticut authorities to prosecute
Mackay for bigamy, according to Harry
r. Sherwood, of Westport, who is a
grand juror of Fairfield County, and
in that capacity would issue warrant
for arrest. Sherwood said last night
that no complaint had been made to
him and until one had been presented
he would not take the Initiative The
laws of Connecticut. at present, make
It compulsory for the prosecutor to
prove that the defendant had lived
with his wife in the state after mar
riage.
1t was learned yesterday on excel
lent authority that Mrs. Olga Hartline
Mackay flied suit for divorce in New
York County January 13, this year, her
attorney of record being George c.,
Norton. She asserts she was married
to Mackay. in Newark, May %, 1915,
and that between 1916 and 1920 Mackay
was guilty of improper conduct with
cne Jane Doe, whose real name is
known to the plaintiff and will be sub
mitted to the court on trial of the
action. Mackay was served with the
papers at the Yale Club, January 26.
In his answer, filed by Collin, Wells
4 Hughes, February 20, Mackay denied
the marriage and misconduct