Suit to Stop Marriage

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1922, Page 4

Suit to Stop Marriage

disparity of ages.

VANCOUVER, June .4. The Chicago Courts granted a temporary restraining order against Malhilde McCormick, to prevent her marrying Max Oser, a Swiss. Harold -McCormick and his wife, from whom he is divorced, and who is the daughter of J. I). Bockfeller. entered the Court on opposite sides. The father was willing that Mathilda should marry Oser; white the mother demanded that iho courts should interfere, because of the discrepancy in the ages of the parties who are respectively 17 and 42, and because Mathilclo would lose her Aiilericau citizenship. The father, replying to the mother’s affidavit, declared that riches should not he a bar to matrimony if true love existed ; that many persons of greater disparity in ages live happily ; and that.'Oser might become an American citizen. The ease was the first of its kiiicl ever taken to the Courts in this manner, and raised tremendous popular interest.

Two days later it was stated that -Miss Mathilda .McCormick would probably marry Oser, according to an agreement reached between the girl’s father and mother, whereby the latter withdrew her objections. One section of the agreement provides for Oser becoming an American citizen, which overcomes the objections of Mr John D. Bockfeller, sell., who hacked Mrs McCormick’s fight to prevent the marriage because lie did not want any of his fortune to get into a foreigner’s hands.

When the compromise was aiinoiincc*d, it was stated that Mathildo’s father would fully inquire into the charges that Oser was merely a fortune-hunter before taking his daughter to Europe to inarrv Oser.