HELPED OUT WITH BOOT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

HELPED OUT WITH BOOT.

MILLIONAIRE'S SON-IN-LAW.

STORY OF FASHIONABLE WEDDIXG.

How a young gentleman bearing a highsounding title was "lacked out of his father-in-law's house by the father-in-law himself is a story which is engaging widespread attention in America. It is the more interesting ami realistic because it is told by the father-in-la, himself, Mr. M. H. Kilgalien, a wealthy steel magnate, of Chicago. The son-ill -law is described as Count Alexander* Albert von Murik tie Beaufort. who married in 1909, in London, Mr. KilgalienV daughter. The count claims to be a " descendant of William the Silent and the ''owner of a castle in Luxemburg.'' A few days ago the countess, seeking io escape her angry husband, tell over a balustrade in her magnitieent residence in Chicago from a height of 50lt, fracturing her knee in lour places, and broke her lett wrist, in addition to sustaining severe cut - j on tln> head. The heiress's father now announces that he has thrown the count j out of the house after having made bins j acquainted with "the power of the parental j lioot " and knocking him down half-a-dozen times. The tact that lie was knocked down J and punished severely is admitted by the | count, who publishes in the newspapers a j diary -d liis married life, apparently in an- | swer to a detailed narrative of his behaviour made public by Mr. Kilgalien. -Mr. Kilgalien. evidently intends his narrative as a warning to other American heiresses. He describes how his wife met the count at an hotel in London, in Septeinlier. 1909. how the count "steered the two ladies into a number of goo<?" jxx>ple who vouched for him." and how subsequently it apjx'ared that "these people knew little more about him than did.my own folk." It was not until n.t'ter hi* marriage with Miss Kilgalien tint Mr Kilgalien met his son-in-law, and "I decided," says Mr. Kilgalien, "to make :lit- best of it. 1 alien. I him to make 1: is home with us in Cliicas* \ (JAW HIM £60 A MONTH, and paid all his wife's expense*. The count .aid lie wish I to obtain work, but his zeal in this direction never got beyond the point where he posed in workmen's clothes in a garage for newspaper photographs. . He soon began quarrelling with evervlxxly. Six chauffeurs left my survice in quick succession owing to tile count's treatment of them. My daughter was sub- I jected to constant illation. 1 sent the ; couple, to Hot Springs. Arkansas. There : the count got in trouble at the Southern j o]tib, and threatened to kill my daughter because she would not sign a blank paper. After that." Mr. Kilgallen's tale of woe jrroceeds. '"the count returned to Inieago, where he constantly complained of the ' beastly place." and wanted to get back to England and 'mix with his equals.'" Mr. Kilgalien gave the count some work in New York. He telegraphed his penitence, and the countess rejoined him. A lew days later she telegraphed to her father in a secret code for help. One of her messages the count wrested from a maidservant, though the girl had concealed it in her (Stocking. That was very nearly the last straw. " Three days later." proceeded Mr. Kilgalien, " my daughter came to me and said, 'It is no use ; L cannot live with him.' 1 promised to do my best to get rid of the husband. When she went shop-, ping the count followed her in a taxi-cab. As soon as she got home lie pursued her into the library, where her screams caused a great flurry among the sen,-ants. Finally she escaped and rushed upstairs, he following. In the flight, she fell over the balustrade.." Mr. Kilgallen's narrative ends with a vivacious account, of the thrashing lie gave the count- when he heard of the injuries sustained by his daughter.