HEIRESS’ QUICK SUIT.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18524, 2 January 1932, Page 3

HEIRESS’ QUICK SUIT.

SEQUEL TO HASTY MARRIAGE. Just two months ago a marriage which thrilled romance-loving folk In the Hollywood and Beverly Hills districts of Calimornia was contracted between an heiress and a taxicab driver. Now the couple are again in the limelight, but this time it is the wife’s petition for divorce that attracts attention.

The suit is brought by Mrs Elizabeth Chalettc, until recently Miss McAllister, an Indian heiress of Okolahoma, against Charles Chalette, who was formerly her chaffeur. Mrs Chalette is also claiming £-10,000, which stie alleges her husband took away from her. After the marriage in September Mrs Chalette bought a home in the film colony at Beverly Hills for £20,000. Her -petition recites the rapid stages of her disenchantment. Her husband drank, she alleges, to excess, and grew angry when she refused to drink with him. He carried a revolver to the dinner table and even to the bedside, constantly threatening

her willi it. lie also made tier a virtual prisoner in her new home, for'bidding her to use the. telephone, read newspapers or to receive callers. Mrs Ghalelte further alleged that her husband told the servants to dis- ; regard her orders and to obey hirt: only. Recently he left her, returning I to his native city of Mount. Clement, Michigan. She now learns, stie alleges, that, he married her only for her money.