The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-12
ACTION
BAREs WRECK
Of ROMANCE
New York sportsn1an and
Inventor Accused Of Affair
With Blonde

With Blonde
nj NEW YORK, Dec. 12-When Mrs
Robert Potter Breese, prominent IN
4 New York and Southampton So
ciety, asked Justice Cropsey IN
Brooklyn supreme court for $6.5VO
n yearly aIimony and $1,000 for sup
port of their child, new disclosures
were made CONCERNING the wreck
Of her romances
Y Mrs. Breese, b daughter Of Mr..
Il and Mrs. Arthur B. Claflin, of the
Il Ritz Carlton and Southampton, was
awarded an interlocdtory divorce
decree in Riverhead, L. l., last July
I by Supreme Court Justice Stephen
q Callaghan. At that time she was
z given custody of their child, Beatrice
Lawrence, eight years old. The
< recent action was brought because
J no mention OF aliInony was made
in the earlier proceedings.
i. Justice Cropsey, IN reserving his
/ decision, intimated that Breese
! would be required at least to pay
n for maintenance of his daughter.
q Arthur Garfield, Hayes, counsel for
the husband. opposed the applica-
= ton on the ground that while Breese
4 has an income Of $4,000 year,
Mrs. Breese has an incomeSof $4,000.
. She has fortune Of $3.50, 900 willed
by her grandmother, Mrs. Agnes
X Chaflin.
Affair With Tall Blonde Barred.
f& Details Of the alleged relationship
between Breese. sportsman and in
& ventor, and "a tall, slender. light
hair woman" in an apartment in
y West Palm Beach, Fla, and on his
& yacht, the Harpooner, .enroute from
Palm Beach to Charleston, S. O.,
z were brought out in the hearing
y. Breese lived in an apartment at 701
South Olive street, West Palm Beach,
q with q friend named Ted Yates much
Of the time between November, 1928,
and last May. During that period,
according to Mrs. Lane B. Wilson,
who let the apartment to the men.
II the tall, sIer Ter blonde" was often
there with Breese. Mrs. Wilson's
testimony was taken early last July
in hearing before Supreme Court
Justice Frank ST Cannon as referee
X in New York. .S
u Seen in Breese's Apartment.
Mrs. Wilson told the refree she
4 had often seen the woman, who was
not named by her. in the apartment
wearing silk kimofio. When upon
Z repeated complaints Of other tenants
she ordered Bresee and Yates to
move, Mrs. Wilson said she found
seventy.four empty whiskey bottles
IN the apartment.
The woman, Mrs Wilson testified,
Z was mot very good looking, but at
tractive and wore good clothes"
4 First describing herself as Mrs.
Breese, she later told Mrs. Wilson
she was his nurse. Asked by Hayes
If the woman might not have worn
street dress under her kimon0,
4 Mrs. Wilson replied:l
,~g Eyes, that is possible, but not
n likely at 4 o'clock in
THE morning"
Physicians Also Saw Woman.
Doctor w. E. Landingham, a West
Palm Beach physician, who also testi-
fled, said he had seen the woman III
Breese's apartment. He refused to
supply her with a nurses uniform
when tenants asked him to do SO
because he knew she was not a
nurse, he said. ~
Justice Cropsey on being told by
Hayes that Breese, although an in
ventor, earns no income from his
profession, characterized him as a
q ''loafer."
Neither Breese nor Mrs, Breese
was in court. He is. said to be living
on his yacht in Florida waters and
sssshe IA reported to be in Palm Beach
q with little Beatrice. ForS a time
gAfter their marriage, at a notable
ceremony In st. Andrew Dune
Church, Southampton, October 8,
at 0A0
I Sixty-first street.
SEQUEL to Childhood Romance.
R'e Their marriage eliminated a boy
and girl romance that began when
they were thrown together in the
Junior Society of the Long Island
resort. Both the Claflins and the
aJames Lawrence Breeses have had
homes at Southampton for years
and have been active in the affairs
of the summer community. Breese's
father is James Lawrence BreeSe,
lO4O Park avenue, an artist and
sportsman. His mother died In
1917.
a3 The Breeses were married by
Bishop Edwin s. Lines, of Newark,
and on the same day his sister. Miss
Frances T. Breese, was married TO
Lawrence McKeever Miller In the
VI Breesei home, "The orchard" The
two ceremonies held the attention of
\ society. Mrs. Breese wore a veil
that was designed for the Empress
x Josephine and had been in the
Claflin family for generations. Mrs.
Breese was a bridesmaid recently for
y the marriage of Miss Marjorie Gould
ito Anthony J.. Drexel, jr.
Breese. Drove Flying Peanut"
Robert Potter Breese, a great
%nephew of the late Bishop Potter,
amused society at Southampton in
1.-THE season of 1920 by the antics of
\ his freak motor racer, which he
called the Flying Peanut" In the
II tiny car he won a race at River
head, L. /. breaking the track rec
Y ord.
Il James Lawrence Breese was con-
spicuous for remarkable entertain.
Fments years ago wuen. bizarre affairs
1were In vogue. His "Girl-in-t the
pie" dinner in which a famous
/, model broke the crust of an enor.
I NOUS pastry in his studio still is
talked about. In 1919 when sixty.
five years old, he surprised society
by marrying Miss Grace L. Nom.
slnand, twenty-three, daughter Of Mrs
Ragland Mofnnand, 22e West Sew,
entieth street.
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French Bank Rate Raised
PARIS, Dec. 12.-The Bank o.
France today increased its discount
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