New-York tribune., 1921-04-12
.TOyce Accuses
Peggy Hopkins:
Wife, of Bisalny
Millionaire L,mberman, in
Annulment Suit, Says
Wedding Was Result of
Conspiracy to Defraud
charges Loss of Million
Declares Hopkins Divorce
Illegal: Names 5 Other
Men as Correspondents

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, April 11.--Jamcs Stanley
Joyce, millionaire lumber king. has
come to the end of his romance with
Peggy Hopkins, former "Follies" girl.
whom he married at Miami. Fla Janu-
airy %, 1920. Joyce wants back his free
dom and the fortune I've gave her in
money and jewels and property.
Through attorneys Alfred S. Aus
trian and Frank P. Leffingwell. Joyce
flied suit to-day in the Superior Court
to annul his marriage to the much mar
ried Peggy. In the suit he names nu-
merous correspondents socially promi-
rent in America and in Europe
Peggy, who has been the wife of two
other millionaires, and who is known
as a dancer, singer, movie star. artists
model and dress model, is charged with
marrying Joyce for his money and also
with being the wife of Philbrick Hop
kins at the time she married Joyce.
The Chicago lumber king and Peggy
went to Europe on their honeymoon.
The bridegroom returned alone and in
serted notices in New York papers that
he would not be responsible for his
announced that she would sue fer di-
yorce
Five Correspondents Named
Among the correspondents named by
Joyce are one Barton French, Henri
Letellier. former owner of The Journal.
OF Paris; one "Maurice." one "E.
lanes Evans Spaulding, land divers
other persons"
The romance with Barton French is
said to have occurred at Torquay. Eng
land, and various other places during
June and July, 1920. A Pullman cpl
sode with Letellier on the train enter
ing and leaving Venice. Italy, is re-
corded in the bill. as are incidents at
various other places on the Continent
Of Europe. in or about the months Of
July, August, September and Octo-
Der. 1920"
On October l, 1920 in London, Eng
land, and also on other dates. it is
charged, Maurice was the defendants
partner.
At various times and places in Lon
don during October and November
Peggy was intimate with James, the
bill declares.
The alleged affair with Spauldng oc-
CURED at 423 Park Avenue, New York
City, during November, December and
January and at Palm Reach during
February and March.
Peggy is twenty-seven years DID, but
has been getting married since she was
seventeen. She is light, decidedly
blend, has blue-gray eyes and is be-
witchingly pretty. AS Miss Marguerite
Upton OF Norfolk, Va, she eloped with
Everett Archer. of Denver, Colo, to
Bellair, Md. and they were married for
SIX months. Thus millionaire husband
Millionaire husband No. was Sher-
hume Hopkins jr., of Washington. D.
C.. lawyer and representative of most
OF the big oil and mining interests Of
Mexico. He had previously married
Miss Margaret Maury of Baltimore,
but obtained an annulment
Peggy was nineteen then and thought
she could be happy with Hopkins S
millions: She eloped with him But
IN March, 1915, she ran away to New
York to earn her own living on the
stage. She explained at length that
millionaires were horrid things, all
wrapped up in coupons and bonds and
mergers and business of all kinds
They had no time to give to a sweet
girl wife. She was left to her own de-
wees, and it was so lonesome in thos,
mansions, with nothing to do except &c
motoring or golfng or riding or swim
ming or make social calls, and nobody
around but half dozen maids and but.
lers and things to wait on you.
Oh, if she could get ali the YOUNG
girls together, poor things, and tel.
them what tragedy it was to marry a
milionaire
And then she married Joyce with onl,
one lnterlude, it appears, in the matter
OF husbands. AS Joyce tells the story
IN the bill, Peggy was the wife oil
Phllbrick Hopkins when he, Joyce, met
her. Joyce was known to be a million.
are. Peggy "had no means and was
compelled to engage in the business ot
play acting to obtain livelihood"
Charges Fraudulent Divorce
1t was in May, 1919. that the two
met. She knew then or.learned shortl,
iates, and it is charged that she ther
induced Philbrick Hopkins, her hus-
nand, to bring suit for divorce agains
her in the 4Sth District Court Of Tar
rant County, Tex, "and to take suc}
proceedings as resulted in the entry O.
said fraudulent and void decree Of di
vcrce so as to enable her to MARRY
your orator"
1t is charged that even before tn,
decree was entered as of record in tn,
Texas courts Peggy represented sh
mad divorced poor dear Philbricls cane
suggested" that she and Joyce be mar
red immediately
The ball charges that the Texas di
Vorce is fraudulent and null and void
because neither of the parties to i
had resided in the state a year or il
the county six months before the flinl
OF the suit, as required by Texas law
and that the court had no jurisdiction
IN the case Based on this reasoning
Joyce contends that Peggys marriage
to him is void