STEAMER ELOPEMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 6

STEAMER ELOPEMENT.

PARENTS IN PURSUIT. Mr Jordan L. Mctt, jun., eon of Ml Jordan L. Molt, £ millionaire iron manufacturer, who is an intimate friend of the JJuke of Coanaught, eloped recently with an actress in the British tramp eteamship Jndradeo, bcorcd for China. Mr Mott signed on as purser, and the scire r£ is on th<i ship's papers as a stewardess, oecause the vessel in not licensed to carry passengers. Mr and Mrs Mott. sen., and a private detective are in pursuit, hoping to intercept the couple at Gibraltar, which k the Indra-ck-o's first port of call. Young Mr Mott has a world-wide reputation for unconventionality. He La married to the daughter of a college professor, with whom he eloped during his undergraduate dare at Harvard. His wife left lum three years ago because he developed a habit oi shooting at imaginary burglars in their horn©, and since then they have lived apart. Recently he announced that he was tired of being a society man, and intended to go on a trip round the world in a sailing si.ip. His parents had arranged this uip Ui him in company with Mr Hector Fuller, whc»e reputation as a soldier of fortune extends from Japan to South Africa. It was believed that the voyage would quiet the young man's nerves. Instead of this Mr Mott eloped, and Mr Fuller, in the role of a private detective, is now hurrying to Gibraltar to induce Mr Mott to change from the I»dr»4rt to a. schooner, as originally planned. r