GILDED YOUTH'S ROMANCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

GILDED YOUTH'S ROMANCE.

TRAMP STEAMSHIP ELOPEMENT. . - 5 ' ANEW YORK, May 22. Mr Jordan L. Mott, ..jun., son of Mr Jordan L. Mott, a millionaire iron manufacturer, Avho is an intimate friend of the Duke Connauight, eloped on Monday with an actress m the British tramp steamship Indradeo, bound, for China. Mr Mott signed on as purser, and the actress is bri the ship's papers as stewardess, because the vessel is not licensed to carry jpassengers. Mr and Mirs Mott, senr.^ and a private detective are m pursuit, hoping to intercept the couple at Gibraltar, which is the Indradeo's first port of call. The parerits sailed /m the ( liner Kronprinz Wilhelm yesterday, arid the detective sailed, this morning m the Mauretania. . Young Mr Mott. has a world-wide reputation for, unconventionality.. He is married to ._the daughter of a college professor, with whom he eloped during his undergraduate; days at Harvard. His, wife left hhn three years ago, because he developed a habit of shooting at impginary burglars m their home, and since then they have lived apart. " • Several days' '.ago he announced that he was tired ..of being a society man, andintended to go /on a trip round the world m v a sailing ship. His parents had arranged this trip for him, m company, <with Mr Hector. Fuller, whose reputation, as a soldier of fortune extends from Japan to South' Africa. It was believed' that the voyage would' quiet the young man's nerves. ' .'

Instead .of,. this Mr Mott eloped, and Mr Fuller, in -the role; of a private detective, is now hurrying to Gibraltar to induce Mr Mott to change from the Indradeo to a schooner, as originally planned. .}■ . . ■ >