"MARRIED IN HASTE.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2023, 7 March 1907, Page 3

"MARRIED IN HASTE.”

A STRANGE STORY. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Air. James R. Roosevelt, jun., who lias supplied America with more than ono social sensation, is now appearing as defendant in a suit brought by Air John Bailer, a bookmaker, for tho alleged alienation, as it is callod here, of his wifo’s affections. Tho bookmaker swears that Air Roosevelt lias stolen his bride i f three weeks, and ho wants £IO,OOO damages.

Defendant, who is twenty-oight years of ago, is a cousin of President Roosevelt, and his father, who died three years ago, was a millionaire. It is one of the penalties of the Presidency of this groat country that every member of the White House family, oven to the remotest relationship, lives very much in the public eye, and for that reason the defendant in the present case is enjoying, or suffering, an amount of publicity just now altogether out, of proportion to the merits of the case. It is true, however, that young Roosevelt’s marriage to a music-hall dancer, known as “Dutch Sadie,” shocked New York’s “Four Hundred,” which is the way of describing this capital’s “upper ten” and his father threatened to disinherit him, but he relented, and Jas. Roosevelt received more than £IOO,000, besides which he has an annuity left by his mother of £3OOO. Mr Bailer’s marriage was admittedly very sudden. He attended a dance given by the “Jolly Three” at the Jug and Pitcher Casino here three days before Christmas, became enamoured of Miss Harriett Moser, a bewitching brnnetto of nineteen, took the lady and her sister home at dawn next morning, and on Christmas morning, before breakfast, he proposed. “All right,” said the bewitching brunette; “why not today?” So they went to a neighboring notary, and were wedded with American promptitude. “On the very day after our marriage,” says Mr Bailor, “my wife came to breakfast weighed down with diamonds which, she said, had been given her by Jimmy Williams, who, she said, was richer than Rockefeller.” Mr Bailer explains that Jimmy Williams was Jimmy Roosevelt, and on New Year’s Day, ho alleges, Jimmy Roosevelt took her away. The bookmaker says he went to the defendant’s wife to complain. “Wlion I told her Jimmy had run away with my wife she said slio wasn’t a bit surprised. She said Miss Moser called on her a few months ago and made a scene. Miss Moser told her that she wanted Jimmy for herself. “I didn’t do a thing but throw her out,” said Mrs Roosevelt.

Mr Bailer Bays he has not seen his wife sinco January 3, when he saw her riding in James Roosevelt’s red automobile, “and vory well she looked.”

Young Mr Roosevelt was visited this afternoon by a representative of the New York World, but be refused to discuss the matter, beyond saying, “It’s all a pack of lies. All the stories about my wife and me are untrue.”