The Washington times., 1922-04-08
PURSUED
ACTRESS
+ ON TOUR
Two wives" of Pittsburgh
PIuraIist to Work Together
In Broadway Show.

NEW YORK, April 8.-An-
other girl who says Joseph DON
aid Grafton, under indictment on
q bigamy charge, introduced her
as his wife has revealed herself
and the list of his matrimonial
ventures grows apace.
Miss Ethel Muir. young actress
Of Ridgefield Park. N. j., was at
one time a subject Of Grafton 8
hypnotic personality. She side-step-
ped q marriage ceremony. believing
Grafton had a wife living at the
time.
Il was travelling with a road COM
pany when / met Don Grafton in
Pittsburgh," Miss Muir said today.
His love letters followed me on tour,
and, oh, baby! you should read those
letters. We met again and Don
begged me to marry him. About that
time i met Paulette Romayne, who
told me she had been married to him
for a long time. At the same time
Don was supposed to have another
wife and two children in the West"
Thought 1t q Lark.
Miss Muir says she went about
with Grafton, who continually in
troduced her to his friends as my
wife" At times, she says. she con-
sidered this a lark. but there were
occasions when she was obliged to
explain she was not married to
Grafton.
II dropped him after I heard
Paulette's story" continued Miss
Muir. He wrote me scores Of let
ters. many of which still have"
No word of Grafton's whereabouts
has been received, and Peggy Davis's
lawyer Is preparing to sue for imme-
diate annulment. Grafton Is charged
with marrying Miss Davis, sculptor's
model and juvenile actress, seven.
teen days after he had gone through
q ceremony with Miss Ellen Curley
Mcintyre.
Mrs. Mcintyre Grafton stays on
in New York, fearing the forked
tongues Of Pittsburgh gossips.
Two Wives Work Together.
She is devout Catholic and the
idea OF divorce is abhorrent to her.
An amusing turn in the affairs
OF Grafton's wives will arrive next
week, when Ethel Muir and the girl
known variously on the stage as
Paulette Romayne and Paulette La
sayne. but whose real name is Paul
ette Gocde, rehearse in the same
Broadway show.
Grafton at various times was in
responsible positions in New York,
Cleveland and Pittsburgh. In 1920
he was the head Of the Aldon News
Service, 2l4 West Thirty fourth
street. He is deeply in debt and
the clothes of Peggy Davis Grafton
and her mother, Mrs. c. p. Laird,
hnI hxr
a West Ninety-fifth street apartment
house for rent Grafton neglected to
pay.
Mrs. Laird said today she was GER.
tain some friend of Grafton had
warned him that the women he mar
ried were seeking his arrst. thus as
sisting him to escape.
Peggy Davis gave the Hearst
papers her first account Of an earlier
Her first husband. whom
she married at the age of twelve,
also had living wife.
Peggy's First Marriage.
.Propped against pillows in her
modest Harlem furnished room, Peg
ey Davis told the story of her first
She said:
Late in 1917, was asked with a |
number of other movie Juveniles to |
assist in the sale of tickets for a !
newspaper tobacco fund to supply |
smokes to the boys overseas.
II attended a dinner at which a !,
number OF army officers were
guests. One OF them bought all of |
my tickets and later obtained an
introduction to me, which he fol. |
lowed by calls and correspondence.
He was Lleutenant-Colonel Joseph
Alexander Davies of the Ordnance
Corps. L met him later in Florida,
In November, 1918, when I was
twelve years old, he got his over
seas sailing orders. He wanted to
marry me, but mother and III
thought / was too young. He in
sisted he merely wanted to marry
me to make me his heir in case he
was killed in France.
"On November 8, 1918, we were
married at st. Stephens Protes-
tant Episcopal Church, Ridgefield
Conn.,, by the Rev. w. b. Lusk. We
never lived together as husband and /
wife.
Other Wife Revealed.
His overseas sailing orders were
by advance inform ftion in
the armistice and he remained in
this country. Early in 1919 we were
both again In Florida, when by mis-.
take / opened a telegram intended for |
him, 1t was from his wife in Texas,
she had given birth to
wins. I was ,astonished and heart.
broken. A few months later, in
July, 1919, got an annulment OF my
to him in Birmingham,
Ala. Colonel Davies did not defend |
he suit. He told me that he thought |
he was free from his wife when he
married me-"
JUROR ADMITS TAKING |