MAD MATRIMONY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9480, 6 December 1907, Page 3

MAD MATRIMONY.

FREAK OF AN AMERICAN HEIRESS.

There has been a sensational development of the elopement romance of Miss Helen Maloney, the daughter of a Philadelphia millionaire, who fled last month to Europe with Mr Samuel Clarkson, a young Englishman. Mr Arthur Herbert Osborne, a stockbroker, living with his mother, says he ■was married to Miss Heien Maloney on December 28th, 1905, at Mamargoneck, a suburb of New York, by a Justice of the Peace.

The records show that "Herbert, usborne" married "Helen Eugene, aged 21, ol Pittsburg." Mt Osborae says he did •not disclose the fact of his marriage to Miss Maloney's family until after he heard 01 her elopement -with Mr Clarkson. This disclosure has added to the distress of the Maloney family. Mt Justice Bodd says he remembers the marriage distinctly, as the couple -were the most loving pair he ever saw. It seemed to him, he says, that after they were married they would never tire of hugging and kissing each other. They came to his office in a motor car with a lady giving the name of Marion Graham, who said she was the bride's chaperon. Mt Osborne's mother says the fact of the marriage was not made public at the tame it was celebrated because he was j stall a student a,t Princeton University.

jjawyer Fanning, counsel for Mr Martin Maloney, says that mow what he knows of Heien Maloney, he believes she regarded the Osborne marriage as more in the natuie of a "lark" than anything else. She was reaied in the Catholic faith, and would not consider the ceremony before a Justice binding. The two principals arrived in London m October from America. Their journey was shrouded in considerable mystery, and they crossed from Quebec in the Empress of Ireland. Throughout the voyage the couple* kept themselves aloof from the other passengers, and took their meals in their own state room. They travelled as Mr and Mrs Cunningham.

The young lady had many friends in London. She was there about three months ago, and stayed at one of the most fashionable hotels in the West End. She is a beautiful girl — a perfect type of blonde, with large lback ayes. She is twenty three years of .age, and on her last birthday her father presented her with £10,000.