May Yohe to Wed.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7412, 30 September 1902, Page 3

May Yohe to Wed.

■ Under the name of Mr and Mrs Atkinson, of New York, Miss May Yohe and Colonel Bradley Putnam Strong are together once more after their stormy period of separation and strarige tales of lost jewels. When the London Express representative called on them he found them living happily in one of the best, apartments of the Avenida Hotel, Lisbon. " I have been very sick here in Lisbon," said the Colonel, " and on Monday last I wired to Miss Yohe, who I saw by the papers was in Paris, to come to me. In answer to my wire she packed her trunks and left on Tuesday morning by the Sud express, arriving here on Wednesday night. . We are perfectly happy it the papers will only leave us alone. We intend to get married on September 25, as soon as Miss Yohc's decree is made absolute. Where we shall be when-'Wiat time comes I cannot exactly say, as our movements are uncertain. After we are married we shall travel around for a while, and perhaps take a cruise to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark about the end of September. We shall never return to America," declared the' Colonel in decisive tones (Miss Yohe expressing agreement), " and whatever happens Miss Yohe will not return to the stage, as she is disgusted with it. There has been no collusion between Miss Yohe and myself. She had no idea of following me when she sailed from New Ycrk, and did not know of my whereabouts until I wired her in Paris. I wish"to positively deny," said tho Colonel, " the interviews which hove appeared in the American papers purporting to have been held with me. They are fakes, and I am surprised that the papers published them. Previous to my arrival here I saw a few reporters, but did not give them any interviews." "It is not true that I pawned the sword of honour given me by General Smith in New York for five dollars. The papers say that it cost seventeen dollars. I'do not know what it cost, but I certainly did RBfc chase round all the pawnbrokers in New York city with a sword to raise sdol pn it. The sword is at'my mother's house, and 1 have written her asking \o have it forwarded me here at once. I have not borrowed any money from my father's friends. 1 am perfectly willing to go to America, and lace any one of his friends who could say that I ever asked him for a cent: Nor did I stay at Brown's Hotel .in London, but only passed through it. I entered in Dover-street and left tlie hotel by the Albemarlestreet entrance. I left London on the Friday night, and only spent two hours in Paris the next morning, when I took the Sud express for Lisbon I do not knpw where we shall live in ttie future, but It will be in some remote land, where reporters are unknown. ' Miss Yohe, who looked very well and had quite recovered from the hysterical attack she had in London, remarked :— '

"The Colonel is right when he says we are perfectly happy. I did not follow him from New Yor-k. 'I came just because 1 felt li.ke it, and wanted an ocean voyage. I was very willing to comp. to. Lisbou, said Miss Yohc. with an affectionate look at the Colonel, when I got the wire in Paris on Monday night. At the time 1 was laid up under doctor's orders with a dislocated knee, which I got through falling out ot a cab outside one of tho London hotels. But that did not stop me. 1 packed my trunks and travelled to Lisbon all alone, and here 1 am. We are going to get married, went on Miss Yohe, as soon as possible after September 25, when the King's Pro? ctor can no longer intervene. We arc bo^h cripples, you eee^ the Colonel has trouble with his cheat and l have my lame knee, which makes me hobble instead of walk, I hope that all our troubles are over now, and that we shall be able to travel round quietly without being followed by reporters, and then Miss Yoho smiled and put on her hat preparatory to going for a drive. Colonel Strong has gone much thinner since he left New York, and has lost quite twenty pounds In weight. He has now, however, fairly recovered from his illness1,'•wh.jcji at one looked lifco being $eriou,s ; It' may bp recalled that Miss May Yohe married Lord Francis Hope at a registry office at Hampstead in >«'->■»■ and that Lord Francis, who is brother nnd heir-presumptive to the nuke oi Newcastle, obtained his divorce last March. "