AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9013, 28 November 1907, Page 1

AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.

American society is in a fever of excitement over the elopement of Miss Helen Maloney, one of the richest heiresses in the United States, with a young Englishman named Samuel Clarkson. The two were privately married in New York on October Ist, and started for Liverpool the day after on the Majesitc. The bride is the daughter of Mr Martin Maloney, of Ballaugarry, Springlako. New Jersey, who invented the gasolene burner in the early seventies, and who has indirectly made a forutue in the Standard Oil Company. The lady met Mr Clarkson while travelling in Europe last summer, and on her return to America entered into correspondence with him. Then came an invitation to visit the Maloneys at their jiriucely homo in New Jersey. This lie promptly accepted, and for the past few weeks the young people have been much together. On Tuesday, October Ist, Mr Clarkson went with Miss Maloney and her maid on a presumed shopping visit to New York. "When the maid returned without the pair the mother jumped to the conclusion that they had eloped. Her surmise proved correct, for two days later she received a letter from her daughter, saying “Sam and I are married. The ceremony was performed by a Catholic priest by dispensation, Wo both objected to pomp and ceremony, so wo decided that it was best to marry without any fuss. We kuow you will forgive us."” Mr Maloney was with President Roosevelt at the time, but Mrs Malouoj at once took train to New York, announced her daughter’s elopement, and sought the aid of the press to discover her whereabouts. Mr Maloney is a prominent Catholic, and his charities to the church are most generous. It is stated that Archbishop Earley gave the dispensation which preceded the marriage, which was performed by a high Catholic dignitary in New York. Both Mr and Mrs Maloney declare that they have not the slightest objection to a British son-in-law, and have despatched Marcouigrams in the hope of picking up the Majestic, bogging the couple to return and finish their honeymoon at Ballaugarry.