The Washington times., 1924-07-29
SeUen Divorce Suits and Much
Trouble FoUolD Romance
Of Pretty IN. j. Girl
Three secret Weddings Part
Of Bad MIxup Action for
Criminal Libel u Threat
ened as New Paterson
Scandal Bomb
b. GERALDrNE FITCH.

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PATTERSON. N. u. July 2O.--An
action for criminal libel was threat
ened 4 yesterday as another AgcaIi-
dial bomb" in the amazing Fair
cIough case.
Since 1t was revealed two weeks
ago that Dorothy Woodward st.
Armand FaircIough had brought
suit for divorce from .twenty.three-
year-old Napoleon Bonaparte Fair.
cIough. IT,, son Of g rich Paterson
ca. j. coal dealer, there has been
new sensation almost every day.
Young Fairclough remains IN seclu-
sion In Paterson with the fifteen
year-old bride that he married after
putting his former wife out Of the
house.
10 date this astonishing case has
been the cause o.:
Two arrests on charges Of
bigarny.
Seven divorce suits.
Three secret marriages.
Three arrests.
Mutual friends turned into enc
mics, houses divided against
themselves, and q hotbed Of scan
dal with 90 many new coalb
being heaped upon Il that the
blaze IL at fever heat.
Family Split Up.
The threat OF criminal libel &C.
ton comes from Mrs. Grace Hines
Harriet, named by Dorothy Fair
clough In her suit for divorce. Fol-
lowing that action, william d.
Harriet, her husband, brought suit
for divorce on charges she was able
TO disprove.
To vindicate her name. she
threatens libel action against her
husband and has brought q divorce
quit against him.
The irnbroglio began q few
months, ago. when Beulah Grebbe.
q girl Of fifteen. caught the fancy
Of Fairclough, Paternon'a invest
young blood. Fairclough's wife
pleaded, with her baby IN her
arms, for the girl to give IN her
husband, but Beulah only lau9he6
and answered her IN this fashion.
After man has been mar
rled three months he has Z right
20 go with other women"
Inc Wite-sO she believed her.
selr-was Mrs. Dorothy woodward
st. Almand Fairclough. Her baby
by Fairclough Is Napoleon Bona
parte Fairclough, Sd.
Amusement for Nelghbors.
Trying to unravel the tangled
I Z. OK the Fairclough case Il
Inc hsnt occupation Of Paterson
Nov, let me see. II all began
I'M. "a 8. way: young Napoleon Bona
But the slx-foOt two blond so,or
OF the coal baron with the famous
name: y really third In the cast
OF characters IN the FairclolIrh
drama. There are two before rim.
Dorothy Woodward st. Almand
Fairclough and Frederick 81. Ai.
Dorothy married Ct. Almapd n
lSzO. He was q Paterson Chauffeur
OF twenty-four, she an '.after.tha.
war dapper" Of nineteen,
The Woodwards were reNuaeta0
citizens OF Paterson, and when Their
petite. brown-eyed daughter elonId
with the chauffeur the irate parentn
put her out OF their home.
But Dorothy was light hearted
Tor q few months. Then eha ~.
tracted the fancy Of 4 Ynennher ~
Paterson's highest social set. He
was young FaircIouRh. 3tIat hHcIr
rom Princeton and with much az
MS fathers money to spend.
Inen Dorothy made q trip to
Alabama and remained q few
months, returning with an interloc.
utory decree Of divorce from ST.
Armand, but neglecting TO tell 81.
Almand about It.
she then eloped with young Fair.
clough to Hartman, NJ. r.. where
they were secretly married Novenn.
Der s. 1922. About this time 81
Almand was attacked and heater
by unknown men on q dark nirht,
He had young FairclouRh arrested
charged with the attack. but ths
young man was released ana nobody
knew Just who was responsible.
because or an error In the mar.
rage license and an occasional
doubt IN the minds Of the young
couple, the Faircloughs were agar.
married secretly In December, 1878.
N New York. Dorothy was by this
time the mother Of Fairclough'a
In her suit for divorces nom r.,r.
clough, Dorothy says that almost
immediately after this marriage
Falrclough put her out OF their
nome In the fashionable section OF
paterson, accusing her OF being
friendly with other nn0n. She, IN
turn, accused him Of being friendly
with several Of their mutual
friends, saying he Haunted them
under her very nose"
She fled to her parents who took
her back into thar home, No. ana
East Twenty.fourth street. Il was
here last May that Beuiah Grebbs,
tifteen'year-old daughter Of win.
lam 2. Grebbs, official II q Pater.
son Dye Company, is said to have
told Dorothy Of her Views that
after three months Of marriage a
man had q right to 80 with other
FaircIoueh counters Dorothy,e
suit with another, but says this "a
really Unnecessary as his marriages
to Dorothy are Illegal. On top Of
this, he married BeuIsa Grehhs
secretly on June in Doylestown.
Pa.
And now re-entsrs Frederick st.
Armand.
He has come along with 4 Wuit
for divorce against Dorothy saying
she was never legally divorced
from him, therefore she Is a blga.
mist in having married Fairclough
He caused her arrest on the
charge Of bigaray, but she was re-,
reaSed in $500 bail.
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