SUIT TO STOP MARRIAGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18116, 14 June 1922, Page 7

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 Swiss. Harold McCormick and his wife, from whom he is divorced, who is the daughter of J. D. Rockefeller, entered the Court on opposite sides. The father was willing that Mathilde should marry Oser, while the mother demanded that the Couurta should interfere, because of the discrepancy in the ages of the paVties who are respectively 17. and 42, and because Mathilde would lose her American citizenship. The father, replying to the mother's affidavit, declared that riches sho—d 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 American 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. Rockefeller, sen., who backed Mrs. McCbrmick's nzht to 'prevent 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 thai MatbUde's father would fully inquire into the charges that Oser was merely a fortune-hunter before taking his daughter to Europe, to marry Oser.