The New York herald., 1922-10-18
Representatives, Ex-Wife Net
British War Hero at Nyack
Spirit Club. N
BOTH JOINED 'OOM'S' CULT
Details of Marriage Are Mys-
teriOus-Couple Reputed
on Ocean Honeymoon.

The marriage of Sir Paul Dukes,
British writer and lecturer, 70 Mrs.
Margaret Rutherfurd Mills, former
wife of Ogden l.. Mills and stepdaugh-
ter of William K. Vanderbilt, became
known last night when Il copy OF a
marriage license issued to them was
found laid away in the Office Of the
County Clerk at Nyack.
Friends of the couple, who insisted
that they were not even sure whether
they had been married and who either
refused to tell anything about the ro-
nance or were exceedingly evasive,
said that they believed the couple had
sailed last Saturday on the steamship
Olympic. There was a report that they
had sailed the previous Tuesday on
the Berengaria, but steamship officials
said that two reservations taken out
in their names were Cancelled later.
That both Sir Paul and Mrs. Mills in
tended to keep their wedding and where
abouts secret is indicated from two no
tices that appeared yesterday in n news
raper i'm Nyack One notice said that
Sir Paul had started for Europe. and
that he would be gone for two weeks,
after which he would return for lee
ture tour.
Believed to He on Ocean.
The other notice said simply that Mrs.
Mills had Joined her sister. Mrs. Cyril
Hatch of Greenwich, Conn.,. and that
they were going West for months
rest. But instead of their going in op-
poslte directions. friends close to both
OF them admitted their belief that they
were somewhere on their way to a
honeymoon in Europe.
The only person who definitely con-
firmed the marriage was Montague
Glass of 437 Fifth avenue. who man
aged Sir Paul's last lecture tour. He
said they were married the early part
of last week and had sailed for Europe.
Some friends said the ceremony was
performed at Nyack.
Representative Ogden Mills was seen
at the National Republican Club and
said he knew nothing of the activities
OF his former wife. and that he had
heard nothing of the marriage. Like
wise. DR.. Bernard. whose full title Is
"Oom the Omnipotent and Loving Guru
Sir Paul and Mrs. Mills met first IN
Petrograd about five years ago. when
Sir Paul was acting as the agent ol
the british Secret Service. 1t was dur
ing the first DAYS of the Soviet regime,
with the attendant bloodshed ana
famine and the many plots and counter
plots, that Sir Paul gained much OF the
material he has used In the last TWO
or three years in his writings ana
lectures. He Joined the Red army as
British Spy. and. when the boishe-
Wiki learned of this and set price on
his head, he managed to escape. lie
and Mrs Mills met again when he came
TO the United States TO lecture.
Soon after Mrs. Mills obtained di-
vorce in Paris in May. 1920, both she
and Sir Paul became interested IN Ut
Pierre A. Bernard. who is the leader
of a spiritualist cult at Nyack. Dr.
Bernard lives at the Brae Burn CluD
with his followers about him, and they
refer to him as the "Omnipotent Dom.
Lived at spirit club.
IL was learned last night that Sir Paul
and Mrs. Mills had been at the Brae
Burn Club for several months. But
when they disappeared and when the
ceremony was performed and what their
plans were---all these we're points which
their friends either could not or would
not divulge.
Benjamin Haas. Justice OF the Peace
at Nyack, admitted that he knew OF
the marriage, but he said II would be
impossible to say anything more There
was report that Justice Haas per-
formed the marriage ceremony.
When Sir Paul and Mrs. Mills ap-
peared to get the marriage license she
gave her age as 80 and he as 80. She
said that her full name was Margaret
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