The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-08
Miss MathiIde Passed Eighteen,
Legal Age to Marry Under
English Laws, Yesterday
TAKES RESIDENCE THERE
Ceremony Is Expected Before
End of This Month-Riding
Master Swain Quits Lucerne
BY HARRY FLORY,
international News Service.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, April
Miss Mathilde Mccormick,
daughter Of Harold F. Mccormick,
Chicago northumberland, who is
engaged to Major Max Oser,
middle-aged Swiss riding master,
may be quietly married in Lon
don before the end Of this month,
it was learned today from an
authoritative source. Miss Nc
Cormick, who is a granddaughter
of John D. Rockefeller, was eigh-
teen years old today, her legal
age under the American laws.
Her paternal grandfather, Cyrus
Hall Mccormick, is now in Lon
don.
RENTS LONDON FLAT.
Information from former haunts
in Switzerland Of Miss Mathilde and
Major Oser indicate that they planned
to be married in London as soon as
possible after her eighteenth birth.
day, because the English marriage
laws are less stringent.
From reliable source Interna.
tional News Service learned that
Miss Mccormick and Julia Mangold,
aged thirty, a cousin of Major Oser
and former bookkeeper in his riding
academy at Zurich, have rented a
flat in London SO that the former
could establish her legal residence
and obtain a license without the con-
sent Of her parents. Under the
Swiss law Miss Mccormick, so long
az she was under twenty, would have
to get the consent of her parents in
writing unless they were present in
person.
Neither Miss Mccormick nor Major
Oser has been in Switzerland since
December, when the latter, accom-
panied by Miss Mangold, left Lucerne
for Paris. Four days before Christ
mas, International News Service ex-
clusively announced the departure
of Miss Mccormick for London.
Major Oser disappeared from
Switzerland at the same time. For
a month previous Miss Mccormick
had made her home with the Man
colds at Observation-Disclosures Lu-
cerne. Since that time the father
OF Miss Mangold, an aged man,
has been caring for Oser's two ia.
vorite riding horses (which were re-
tanned when the Zurich riding
academy was sold, Mathilde's two
cats and her dog.
mo, they are not married, but
Major Oser Is living in the same
city as Miss Mccormick" said Miss
Mangold's father to International
News Service. Her dog knows as
much about her whereabouts as /
do. My daughter never writes.
She tells me nothing"
NOT SURE OF DATE.
Mangold admitted that he be-
lieved Miss Mccormick would be in
London by April Is, if she is not
there. He refused to say,
however, that this was the wedding
date.
Miss McCormick's former com
panion, Miss Richards, who makes
her home in Zurich, told Interna.
tional News Service that she has
known nothing Of the movements of
Mathilde for several months. She
was much interested.
Tell me-" she explained, "are
they still trying to stop the mar
r1age!
Despite the impending nuptials
Swiss people refuse to take it seri-
ously, particularly the. old, aristo-
cratic families of Basic.
One member of the Basic aris-
tocracy, the proudest in Switzer.
land, remarked that he did not be.
lieve the marriage would take place
and that If it did, it would not
last more than five years"
1t is believed, that after the mar.
riage takes place, Major Oser and
his pretty young bride will make
their future home in Switzerland