The Washington times., 1938-06-27
ON A L|E-DOWN|
STRIKE TO Win.
RIC H HUSBAND.
Abed, She Goes Hungry;
CIubman Her Objective
By JACK TURCOTT and
WARREN HALL

WAh6EN HALL
Copyright, 1898. by News Syndicate Co.
Inc)
NEW YORK, June 27.-A beau.
tiful red-haired divorcee has ended
the first week of a lie-down strike
In a bedroom of the 24-room IT.
Vington IN. " mansion of the
man she wants to marry, Rollo K.
Blanchard, millionaire head of the
Neptune Meter Company.
Blanchard, a chubby, slightly
bald, 4S-year-olc. sportsman and
civic worker, had fled to the pri-
Vacy of his three-masted yacht at
the Tarrytown Yacht Club.
Irvington police insisted they
were powerless to eject the love
striker without a court order.
TO CUT OFF SUPPLIES
But three private detectives,
brought into the home from Man
haitian, today were preparing to
end the siege by cutting off food,
water, and light from the bed
room stronghold.
Police have made two visits to
the Blanchard home, which is on
a five-acre estate on the Albany
Post Road at Irvington. Their in
Vestigation pieced together this
story:
Blanchard and his wife, a youth
full and vivaciouS blonde, have
been estranged for three years.
She Is living in Vermont. They
have two children, Kimball, Is,
and Betty, II.
TAKES OVER BEDROOM
Betty, who has Just finished her
third year at Sarah Lawrence Col
lege at Bronxville, became &C.
quainted there with a relative of
Mrs. Heidi Heusser, divorced wife
of a Swiss government official.
She was introduced to Mrs. HeuS-
ser and in turn introduced the di-
vorcee to her father.
Mrs. Heusser, a 28-year-old
beauty with strawberry hair, a
peachbioom complexion and cap
tivating foreign accent, moved into
an apartment in Scarsdale with
her two young children and began
to see Blanchard frequently.
Their close friendship, which has
lasted about year, came to an
abrupt climax last Monday when
Mrs. Heusser arrived at the Blan-
chard home, ran upstairs, barri-
caded herself in a bedroom and
announc ed she wouldn't leave until
the manufacturer agreed to marry
her.
PHONE CALLS LISTED
1rvington police have three en-
tries on the blotter relating to the
novel predicament.
One records a telephone call
from Mrs. Heusser'S attorney,
Mortimer D. O'Brien, of White
Plains, who warned them not to
attempt to eject his client.
The second makes note of a tele-
phone call from Mrs. Heusser, ask.
ing for police protection. A pa
trolman was sent to the house and
rems ined there a while, but re-
turned with a report that there
was no disturbance.
The third entry describes q visit
to the Blanchard home by Attor-
ney O'Brien and Police Chief Ber-
nard Mccall. They were refused
admission to the house and
O'Brien had to converse with his
client while she leaned from the
second-story window Of her bed.
room.
Il love him so," she sobbed.
"Why is he so cruel to me?"
HE GREETS CHILDREN
She asked the attorney to notify
her brother. Charles Secula, of
Port Washington, L. l., an and un-
Gle, Frank Secula, of Rye. The
brother. she instructed, was to
take her two children, boy, 5,
and a girl. 6, to his home.
At l p. m. yesterday a nurse
brought the two children to the
Blanchard home and asked that
they be allowed to visit their
mother. whom they had not seen
since Monday.
The three private detectives,
two women and man, refused to
admit them, although Mrs.
Heusser pleaded tearfully from
her window that they be brought
upstairs for Just minute or two.