HEIRESS'S ADVENTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 56, 31 March 1909, Page 4

HEIRESS'S ADVENTURE.

A tangled international romance, as sociated with the name of -Miss Helen Malouey, the daughter of the millionaire oil magnate, who is also a Papal marquis, ended, to tne intense surprise of her friends anil of the public, by the remarriage of the beautiful young heiress to Mr Arthur Herbert Osborne, a New York stockbroker. At the end oi the year fashionable society was greatly disturbed by the elopement of Jlisrs .Maloney with Mr Samuel Clarkson, a young Englishman. The strange affair roused great interest in the two continents, for after the disappearance of .Miss Malonev it was discovered that she had contracted a marriage "for a joke" in Mtl.j with a youthful college friend, .Mr Osborne, in the course of a casual afternoon trip in a motor car. The heiress did not regard this "freak marriage" as binding, and was aghast when she was informed that it was perfectly valid, and that she was unable to wed Mr Clarkson, The lady's father spared no money ill tracing the eloping couple, and finally learned that bis daughter was alone in Paris. She returned to America, but notwithstanding the immense influence of her father, the Roman Catholic Church refused to nullify her marriage with Mr Osborne. Some mouths ago, however, oil the ground that both parties gave false names to the officiating magistrate, the livil authorities pronounced (Hipmarriage null and void. The niarriag' with Mr Osborne, which was .solemnised with the full sanction uf tile Cfilireh, took place at Springlake, \Yw .lerscy. niilv relatives being present. .Miss .Maloney's history may be tabulated as follows

December, 100.1.—" Mock with Mr O-borne. October, 1007.—Klnpement with Mr C'larksou. Xovember. 1907. Return home. "Mock" marriage found to be binding. May. 1905.--"Divorced from Mr Osborne. January, 1900.—Second marriage to Mr Osborne.