South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-06
WIFE GETS DIVORCE
FROM POLISH COUNT
Maryland Divorce Ends Two
Year Fight by Daughter of
Late Gov. Warfield.


BALTIMORE. Md. Dec. 5.-As
the elimination or almost two years
% legai battle in Europe and Amerl-
ca. the CoUntess Louise Ledo-
thowskl. daughter Of the late
Gov. Edwin Warleid Of Maryland
has obtained decree Of divorce
from Count Vladimir LcdOchoW ski
OF Poland. The Countess. who is liv-
inK 90 her brothers home. Oakdlls
Manor. near Lisbon. Nd-. waF gwen
the custody o. her three children.
There's. s years old. Marya Jadi-
wiga and Leon S.anislaus, 9.
The decree does not give her the
Fight - assume her maiden name.
nor does 20 ALLEVIATE the rights u
the son 10 the ancestral estate OF
his father. according 20 Edgar Allan
Poe attorney for the countess.
First Met iu Honolulu
Three weeks ago when the dl-
vorce decree was signed by Judge
Henry 81. Forsythe In ;he Circuit
court OF Howard county at ElLcOtt
City. George ". siwiuski attorney
for tho count. sent his client "a
cablegram OK notification. So re-
sponse has been received; nor did
Count Ledochow sEi al any tine APP
pear 20 defend the suit
The first meeting OF Mise War
field and Count Led0chowsH was in
Honolulu. in 1912 Each was travel
Ing IN different direction but be-
fore they parted they had become
engaged At first. the late Governor
Ntarfeld was determined That his
daughter should not marry the
count: but both his daughter and
Count IedCchOwsk. were deter
mined upon the marriage Just as
firmly.
Miss Warneid could not speak
Polish and Count Ledochowski could
not speak English Both. however.
could converse fluently in French
which became the language OF their
courtship
At the wedding which WIS held
siay s. 1915. az tho home OF the
bride. 1928 Linden av, Cardinal
Gibbons assisted in the ceremony.
Cardinal Ledochowski Che uncle of
the bridegroom and Project Of the
Propaganda under Pope Leo XIII.
also was present.
Honeymoon in Poland.
When Cardinal Gibbons began his
remarks II was evident he was in
terested intensely in the marriage.
He declared the marriage contract
could not be broken.
The honeymoon was spent on the
ancestral estate I'm Wolotschsk,
Poland At the outbreak OF the
war the count and his family es-
capped from the advancing armies 10
the hOme of relatives in odessa.
There they remained until 1915.
when they returned to- their home.
Count Ledoscowskl joining the
Polish Red Cross Later they came
90 America where they lived at the
eountess's former home i'm Howard
county. Maryland, until in 1919.
In the petition for a divorce de-
sertion and inhdeiIty were alleged.
The charge was made that Count
Ledochowski left his wife and chill
dren in 1919 and that from March,
1921, until the filing Of the suit he
had been guilty on numerous oc-
casions or inddelity at Nice, Monte
Carlo and Monaco. In the suite the
countess was represented by Mr..
Poe and the count by Mr. Siwinski
and James a FiueEel
The first move was made by the
countess. who obtained On Paris on
January Is. 1921. an interlocutOry
decree giving her custody OF the
children There the count got pos
session Of the children. by what
means was not made known. and
carried them into Poland The
mother followed. and on April 8,
again obtained possession Of the
childre. through an order OF a
Polish court Under this order she
gave bond for 10. 900 marks that she
would not take the children from
the Jurisdiction Of the court
Said Court Had No Juri. diCtiOn.
When the action before judge
Forsythe was started. lawyers fol
the count argued that the countess
through her marriage. had become
Polish citizen and that the court
therefore. had no Jurisdiction This
argument was overruled In regard
to this. Judge Forsythe said in his
decree
Inc oeleiiu'iiit iiAN JUS A''tSt 4.
appear generally and having failed
20 offer any testimony in his behalf
although due opportunity TO do 50
was given him, the cause was Their
submitted and the proceedings were
duly read and considered"
Mr. Siwinski said The civil courts
or Poland exercise no Jurisdiction ir
divorce cases That is left 10 the
eccesiasticaI courts. he said. and 50
FAR as the court IS concerned he still
IS married.