Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
WIFE WASHINGTON GIRL.
Passport Refused Boyd to Live in
United States, However,

Passport Refused Boyd to Live in
United States, However,
Capt. Boy-Ed married Washington
girl, Miss Virginia Mackay-Smith
daughter of Bishop Mackay-Sm Mrs
Boy-Ed has visited her relatives in the
United States. It had been announced
that the captain would like to live in
America, but it was reported that the
State Department would not visa his
passport.
Through a queer chance, Boyd and
Miss Mackay- Smith were not married
until after the war. just before he
left the United States Boyd cabled
Admiral Won Tirpitz then minister OF
the German Navy, for permission to
marry the young lady, and take her to
Germany. The reply was sent: You
NAV marry. Tirpitz" 1t was learned
long afterward that the American Sc
cret service held up the dispatch, be-
lieving it to be code. Boyd sailed
without receiving it.
After the war Miss Mackay-Smith
went to Europe with her mother, and
the wedding took place on February
IL, 1924.
Case Caused Bitterness.
The Boyd case attracted wide
spread attention. 1t was one of the
causes Of bitterness in America prior
to this country's entry into tie great
war His diplomatic immunity pre-
vented his arrest Alleged passport
frauds, which resulted in the arrest Of
Richard Peter Stegler and Others in
New York caused public clamor for
the internment or expulsion Of the
German attache. The State Depart
ment, in February, 1915, announced 1t
would not ask Count Won Bernstorff,
then German Ambassador, for Boy
Eds dismissal, but would call the at
tention of the Ambassador to the con-
nection of his naval attaches name
| with the incident. The inevitable OUT
come of the case, in a nation then
growing daily more hostile toward all
things German, was Boy-Ed's ultimate
dismissal.
At one time when Boy-Ed was sought
in Washington, but could not be traced
social circles in Philadelphia let 1t be
known that he was in the Mackay-
Smith home. He was reported to have
returned to the United States after his
deportation. about March, 1917, in dis
guise, but this was never proved.
Charges of sabotage in munitions
plants in America, laid to the doors of
numerous German agents, also were di-
rected at Capt. Boy-Ed and influenced
the Government in its activities against
him.
Capt. Boyd was So years old.
Popular in Younger Set.
Miss Mackay-Smith was once one of
the most popular members of the
younger set here, and her mother, Mrs
Alexander Mackay-Smith, still main
talns her home, at 1925 Sixteenth street
She was married to Capt. Boyd in
Hamburg on February 10, 1921. They
had sought in vain to be married before
but it was not until after the war that
tore them apart that their stirring
romance, which held the interest of two
| continents. eliminated at quiet little
| altar in the German seaport.
Thoroughly angered by Capt. Boy
Eds conduct in the year before the
United States entered the war some oil
Miss Mackay- Smiths warmest friends
here declined to continue their &C.
quaintance after her wedding Mrs
Mackay-Smith occupies a position OF
prominence in Washington society.
Mrs. Boy-Ed's father was the late
Right Rev Alexander Mackay- Smith
former Bishop of Pennsylvania, anc
once rector of st. Johns Episcopa
| Church here. She and her younger
| sister, Gladys, now Mrs. William Bel
| Watkins of Philadelphia, both made
| their debut here. They moved Il
| Philadelphia upon Bishop Mackay.
/ Smiths appointment, but returned II
| Washington after his death. An elder
| sister. Mrs. G. L. Marlatt, who also live;
| at 1921 Sixteenth street is the wife Of
! the curator Of the Bureau of Ethnology
| of the Smithsonian Institution.