San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-27

teresting legal game are now being
made in the New York courts
Count Ludwig Salm Won Hoogstraeten has
played the first card by asking a separa-
ton from his American heiress wife, who
was Millcent Rogers, daughter of the
Standard Oil multi millionaire. The Amer
lean heiress has had enough of her Aus
trian husband; she is entirely through
with him. The Countess wants a divorce;
not separation.
How can she get rid of him?
What would H. H. Rogers, the Counts
father-in-law, be willing to pay to his SON
in-law if he will accept lump sum, agree
to divorce. give up his claim to the baby
and put things back as nearly as possible
to where they were before Millicent mar
sied him?
IA The law is game and must be played
ecordng to the established rules of the
tme. Count Salm has in his hands few
gh cards, and his lawyers will tell him
,how to play them to the best advantage
1.-THE Countess also holds a few legal
trumps and her lawyers, standing behind
! her back, will tell her how to play her
Inland with the highest degree of profess
3sional skill.
p The game opened some weeks ago, when
Count Salm notified his wife from the
other side of the ocean, that he was COM
ing over to rejoin her and claim his rights
as a husband and as the father of their
little one-year-old baby boy. That was
the correct legal move to make in opening
the game.
The lawyers for the Countess directed
her to make no reply. If she had cabled
Salm not to come, it would have been
declaration of desertion and Count Salm
would have promptly won the first trick.
The next move in the game was to fol-
low up his notification and come to Amer
lea, so that he could lay before the court
the actual fact that he had made an effort
at a reunion. And thus it was the other
day that Count Salm walked off the
steamer and looked about the dreary
wharf But there were no welcoming
arms of either wife or child. He really
did not expect to see them. The Countess
had taken the baby and gone to Florida.
He soon learned that his wife had moved
into a cottage named Waikiki" sur
rounded with spacious and improved
grounds What should he do? Would he
stay in New York and abandon any fur-
Their attempts at reconciliation-or would
he follow on down to Florida and attempt
forca n1eetinp with his wife,
And there was one other possible move
he might have attempted to snatch the
child from its guards and take it across
the water to Austria. This would throw
the whole case into the foreign courts,
which would have been very good STRAIT
egg, perhaps, and have greatly embar-
rassed the Countess in making her fight
abroad with possibility of losing control
of the baby.
Whether or not Count Salm ever con-
sidered the possibility of selling posses
sion of the baby he, at any rate, learned
through the newspaper dispatches that the
Rogers family had evidently thought of
this, and that the Countess and her Flor
ida estate were well guarded by corps
of husky sentnels, who patr0lled the
premises night and day in pairs, accom-,
panied by large and earnest-looking dog
The Count made no move to force himself
on his wife or the baby and his lawyers
then concluded that they were in excellent
strategic position to draw up his papers in
the separation suit.
On the ship with the Count came his
mother. Why should he bring her across
the ocean with him? But ii was very
important move in the game for reason
which will soon be explained.
In the suit for separation Count Salm
nlays one of his hest cards when he de-
mands that the baby boy be turned over
to him. Now, when the father comes into
court with the demand to take the baby