The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-22
GIRL NAMED
in DIVORCE ACTION
P. NJ. Shaw Accused of Spend
ing $4,000 a Year Upon
Butterfly La Barre.
BANKER ENTERS DENIAL
He Asserts That Complainant
Condoned Alleged Offences
by Living With Him.

Alleging that Philip M. Shaw, banker
and note broker, living at 2 West Six
ty-seventh street, has been spending
$4,000 a year since December, 1919
upon Butterfly" La Barre, one time
Ziegfeld chorus girl and an artists
model, Mrs. Elinor Jordan Shaw has
begun AN action for divorce. Answer
ing affidavits filed yesterday with the
Supreme Court in behalf Of Mr.. Shaw
assert his wife condoned the alleged
offences by living with him last Sep
TENDER in Breton Woods. N. Fl. He
alleges also there was a flaw in their
marriage, on January 16. 1902, in this
city. in that an interlocutory decree
of divorce obtained by her In Massa-
chusetts from her first husband had
not been made final.
Mrs. Shaw's affidavit supporting her
complaint accuses her husband Of per-
jury in alleging she condoned his acts.
She was not In possession of full proof
of his alleged infidelities in September.
according to sher counsel, Benjamin F.
Spellman of f15 Broadway. but left him
in February, as soon as she was sure
of the facts.
She asks the court for $1,000 a month
alimony and $500 counsel fees. Argu-
ment on this will be heard Monday by
Justice Martin. She submits also copies
of certificates proving all legal compli-
cations of her divorce were cleared up
before her marriage to the broker.
Mrs. Shaw i'm her affidavit quotes the
reports of commercial credit agencies
which give her husband a rating ''in
excess of 81 5000 and asserts that the
least his income amounts to Is 10000
n year. He is senior partner OF Philip
NJ. Shaw K Co.. bankers. at Is William
street. and is lin the business of note
and bond broker and financing of en-
terprises with George F. III. Konig,"
she states, besides being concerned in
other enterprises on the side. When
they lived together in an apartment at
255 West 10sth street they lived at the
rate of 5000 month, she says. She
was dispossessed from the apartment
Friday through lack of $500 for two
months rent, she states; has pawned
her jewelry and hasn't a dollar in the
world"
Mrs. Shaw alleges that her husband
paid the expenses, amounting to
$2.251.92. of six months stay at the
Hotel Woodward for the correspondent.
Madrienne La Barre, more frequently
known by her Butterfly" nickname.
and the girls mother, Mrs. Ella La
Barre. She alleges he gave the girl $25
a week pocket money. S675 watch. and
allowed her TO make purchases on his
account. Not only did he provide for
them here. but paid for the upkeep of a
home maintained by the La Barres at
As Mason street, Somerville. Mass.
she alleges. She produces various let
effects" in one of which the girl refers
to an apparent engagement to be mar
ried to Shaw.
Filed with Mr.. Shaw's answer was an
affidavit by Mary Halligan. chamber
maid In the Woodward. that she had
signed another affidavit April 20 last at
the request OF three detectives without
examining the document and desires
now to correct wrong Impressions
that might be derived from the first af-
fidavit. This recited that she often
saw Shaw in the La Barres' suite, and
Is part OF Mrs. Shaw's papers.
Mrs. Shaw also submitted an affidavit
by Robert A. Fowler porter at the
hotel which recited among other things
that he once saw Shaw and Miss La
Barrs alone In the apartment, Shaw in
stocking feet and shrtsleeves. the girl
in n l<imono.