SUIT TO STOP MARRIAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1922, Page 10

SUIT TO STOP MARRIAGE.

DISPARITY OF AGES. MOTHER’S OBJECTION. Vancouver, Juno 3. The Chicago Courts granted a temporary restraining order against Mathilde McCormick, to prevent her marrying Max Oser, a e Swiss. Harold McCormick and, his wife, from whom he is divorced, who is the daughter of J. D. Roekfeller, entered the Court on opposite sides. The father was willing that Mathilde should marry Oser, while the mother demanded that the Courts should interfere, because of the discrepancy in the ages of the parties who are respectively 17 and 412, and because Mathilde would lose her American citizenship. The father, replying to the motherV affidavit, declared that riches should not be a bar to matrimony if true love existed; that many persons of greater disparity in ages live happily; and that Oser might become an Americuxi citizen. The case was the first of its kind ever taken to the Courts in this manner, and raised tremendous popular interest.

Two days later it was stated that Miss Mathilde 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. Roekfeller, sen., who backed Mrs. McCormick’s fight to present the marriage because he did not want any of his fortune .*to. get into a foreigner’s hands.

When the compromise was announced, it was stated that Mathilde’s father would fully inquire into the charges that Oser was merely a fortune-hunter before taking his daughter to Europe to marry Oser.