FASCINATED TURK
A DESERT HONEYMOON Married in turn to an advertisement canvasser, a millionaire, and a Turkish prince. Sadie Wirt Spreckles, beautiful daughter of an American 'sugar king,” has just completed the fourth romance of her meteoric matrimonial career. Sadie, in her youth, turned down a proposal of marriage from a wealthy Brazilian to wed a penurious advertisement canvasser from Kansas. Three months later she obtained a divorce from him. and married John T>. Spreckles. a San Francisco njillionaire. The couple lived in London for a time during the war. but soon after the birth of a son and heir. Mrs. Spreckles returned to the United States and started her second divorce suit. That action fell through when news arrived that her husband had bean killed in a motor-car accident, and as she inherited his fortune, the romantic Sadie set oat to see the world. Her first stopping place was Constantinople, where she met Prince Saud Chikar, son of a former Turkish Sultan. The prince was fascinated by the American, and she, enchanted by the prospect of becoming a princess and living in a palace of minar ets. marble halls and terraced gardens, was quite willing to enjoy the delights of a life on the Bosphorus. Arabia and India figured in the honeymoon tour; but soon after the couple had settled down to normal married life in a Turkish household, quarrels became frequent. Sadie pined for the freedom to which she had been accustomed, and even the advent of a daughter failed to curb her desire for adventure and thrills.
The prince followed her to America, but despite his entreaties that shei should return, she went to Reno and secured a divorce on the grounds ot his "desertion.” Later she applied lor restoration of her rights as an American citizen and renounced the title of princess. “I shall never marrj’ again,” she told her women friends, advising them against marriage with a foreigner, hut in less than three months Sadie, now 35 years old. became infatuated with end married Lieutenant Alan Card ner. a 27-year-old army air pilot.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 10
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348FASCINATED TURK Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 10
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