Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-14
HENRI DE ROTHSCHlLD,S
FEAR OF ARREST CAUSES
GIRL CLAIMANT TO WEEP
N Love Him, She Says,
Hopes Not for Wealth but
for Wedding Ring Through
Suit

! NEW YORK. Though Mile.
Marie Porquet. is suing the hand
some young James Henri de Roths-
child, eldest son of Baron Henri de
Rothschild, Of Paris, for 100000, it
is not money she wants, her attor-
neys declared today. h..
at is her hope that the suit will
end with her marriage to young De
Rothschild," said one of the law
yers. "She must take this action
to protect her position. She is deep
ly attached to him.
Further evidence of her devo-
ton is told in regard to the youths
departure from America. 1t had
been agreed among the lawyers
that he was not to be arrested.
When this was told her she said:
ARREST him! Why should any
zone think of such a thing? would
never agree to it. I love him.
She almost wept when told he
had become fearful of arrest, though
assured he might take a fast, steam.
err from New York for France,
and hurried to Montreal and slow
steamer instead.
"Ah, the poor YOUTH she said.
ITO think of his having to travel
on slow ship, and for fear that I
would have him arrested. ~ would
not think Of such thing"
According to her lawyers, the
main obstacle to the marriage is
that he is Jew and she a Gentle.
This would not make any differ
ence to the young people them
Selves" her lawyers say, but it is
the traditions of the De Rothschilds
that there shall not be an inter
mingling.
Mile. Porquet is in seclusion
somewhere in New York, but is
planning to return to Paris and re-
main with her parents until the
case is settled.
1t is understood that the letters,
cablegrams and photographs the
young woman has turned over to
her lawyers for use in the trial
show true love and romance to the
nth degree. They are all prim and
proper, all conventional. They weigh
four pounds, and when her lawyers
first asked for them she is said to
have replied:
do you think / came to America
armed with letters? No, I came to
be married. I love him. Such let
ters as there are are in my room
in my home in Far1s." So she had
to send for them.
William M. K. Olcott, who is to
| be her trial lawyer, says that Mile.
Porquet is not an actress, but a
young woman who has always lived
with her parents, well-to-do people
| of Paris. She is said to be twenty
! four and De Rothschild is twenty,
seven.
The answer of James Henri de
Rothschild denying he ever prom
ised to marry Mile. Porquet was
filed by Stanchfield & Levy, whom
he retained to defend him before he
! left for France. about ten days ago
| oI4C c1lAu L1C1il1 oC 4SCNI1
schild have been friends four years
according to Mr.. Olcott. During
that time, he said, they talked OF
marriage many times, but the young
man always ended these converse
tions by saying he could not marry
| Mile. Porquet-she was Christian
he. was a Jew, and the Rothschilds
| he said, never married out of theil
race and he dreaded to think wha'
! his father would say if he told hin
he was going to marry Mile. Por
| quet.
| That, at least, is what Mile. Por
quet told Mr.. Olcott and what Mr.
OIcott believes.
Then, last spring, young Rot
schild came to this country to SEE
the country and study financial in
stitutions While on the steamer
Mr.. Olcott said, he sent Mile. Por
quet radiograms twice day. HI
arrived in New York on the Paris OF
April 1 and went first to the Ritz
Carlton and then leased bachelor
apartment at No. 375 Park avenue
After his arrival he did not let ;
day pass, according to Mr.. OlcOtt
without sending Mile. Porquet ten
der letter, supplementing it will
cablegrams twice q day.
Finally from California he sen
Mile. Porquet cablegram which
said in effect, according to Mr.
Olcott, "Can you not come to Amer
lea? I think matters can be ar
ranged"
She came on the Paris, unchap
eroned but accompanied by her mat
on May Is. Her sweetheart greet
ed her ardent!y, according to re
account. but fell Immediately int
deep detection and said that he wa
afraid he could not marry.
'Why not?" she asked.
81 am afraid. l must refuse.
| don't dare" were his words, accord
ing to Mile. Porquet.
He advised her to return to Paris
: Instead of returning, Mile. PoI
quet wen to a former attache of tn
American embassy in Paris whom
she had met over here and who
now in New York and told hir
5 about her predicament. He took he
E, to Richard Campbell, well-known al
l torney. of No. IA Wall street. MI
| Campbell retained Mr.. Olcott to &C
as counsel.