The New York herald., 1922-03-31
NINE. WALSKA SUIT
HERE is RIDICULED
Cochran Actually Holding Off
His Action as Favor, Says
Untermyer.

ANY suggestion that Nine. Gamma
Walska Cochran. Polish wife of Alex
ander Smith Cochran. millionaire Yon-
kers manufacturer. was contemplating
suing for divorce in New York. as re-
ported from Paris. Is quite outside the
calculations of lawyers for either side.
according to Samuel Untermyer. Mr.
Cochran's attorney.
The report that Dudley Field Malone.
former New York lawyer. now resi-
dent of Paris, was about 10 sail for
New York TO start suit In behalf OF
Mr.. Unterinyer as a queer and ques-
tionable performance in the light OF
facts" Mr.. Untermyer said the actual
filing of Mr.. Cochran's suit against the
singer has been held off from time TO
time at the request of the attorneys for
thu other side. Mr.. Untermyer con-
tinued:
During all these many months there
has at no tir1s been the slightest sug-
gestion by anybody of any complaint
or counter charge against Mr.. Cochran.
| am satisfied that there is no basis for
1t and that it Is a mere afterthought
create the impression that the lady has
a grievance
IF Mr. Malone or his client has any
idea that they can take this sort of adj
vantage of our misplaced confidencs z
and Indulgence to turn the tables a..
this late date they will find that they
are mistaken.
This eleventh hour yarn. apparently
inspired by Mr.. Malone from Paris. is
lar y
that Nine. Walska-Cochran has any
complaint against Mr.. Cochran or that
she contemplates bringing any suit
against him. If Mr.. Malone regards
that as tactics it is rather a au eer and
questionable performance in light OF the
facts
Mr. Unternyer added that before Mr..
Cochran returned to Europe on March
IL he had executed the papers in his
contemplated suit, but that their filing
had been postponed at the urgent and
repeated appeals" OF Nine. Walska 5
senior counsel here. who is associated
with Mr.. Malone in the case. The name
OF this lawyer was not divulged
Another possible line of legal action
to free Mr.. Cochran from his Polish
singer bride. whom he welded after a
romantic courtship aboard the Cunarlcr
Aquitania - incidentally the shin on
which Mr. Malone is expected to sail for
America to-morrow--was hinted at Il
would be an attack on the legality Of
the marriage. Nine. Walskas first lius-
banw was Capt. Archadie dEingorn OF
the Russian army. to whom she was
married when she was seventeen. From
him. the singer says, she obtained an
ecclesiastical divorce in 1914 from the
Synod of the Holy Russian Church on
the grounds OF drunkenness.
While it is difficult to locate records
In Russia, it Is said no such grounds for
decree exist or did exist there In
vestigation. it was learned, indicates
that Capt. d'Eingorn died Mt Roskow,
Russia. in October. 1920. month after
Nine. Walska's marriage to Mr.. Cochran.
II Is the contention of Mr. Cochraa's
lawyers that the legality OF the marriage
may be successfully attacked regard
less OF Mime. Walska's intervening MOI :
riage to DR.. Joseph Fraeakel. prominent
New York physician who died in 1915.
In an action concerning tho will OF
DIR. Franekel II was disclosed that Nine.
Walska at the time OF her first mar.
riage was plain Hannah Puaoz of Siel-
dec, Poland.