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Show fACETOU iC; THE SUNDAY HERALD; SUNDAY, FEBRUARY- 7 1926.. - .-- our. 0 umui o&wiue; y t i Beauiiful Eoelyn Farris Stuck by Ha Husband When He Was Charged -- Youthf tA Va I ou) .' , . " f ... , i ' 4 -- n ; Murder, Divorced :HimA fter 7e 7aJ Been Acquitted, Then .... ft " -- . - ( - " - I 1 r" L " '" ' 4 f A; ' V ft: J - ; t- jki .. y, ,1 ' ' : ' ' ' ; -- , I - . , '.I V V I I Taken After His Farta, r " liiRht! A Rogues Gallery I'hoto of Young Raymond O. Bennett, thS Husband , of nUbert canithers. JF -- ' ' " -r- . V" ' W " . . I V - . V w Or'-"- . T x - - pfc- - - - ' - - ri .... fi . " ? - f 1;: . . vv Xi -- : :,,T v. "Yes, let's," B' . I 4fT : -- ? - ear ' i- , T ' I 1 ' I --. .r.. T Bennetts. Many astonishing things happened in rapid So "many things happened, in fact, succession. that the charming little Tennessee girl asked the lourt for a divorce from Bennett first in August," 1924. And before the ink was quite dry on the petition she telephoned the Court to .cajl it offand the court did ! Then, nineteen days before the moment when she sat musing in a quiet corner of her home in Chattanooga' a few weeks atro. she' asrain filed a second petttion for divorce. And-- it ft stiU was Mrs. Bonnett. no, longer war her husband s wife! Buthe ' ' "Wasn't it lovely of the nice ld Judge to hurry it up so?" asked Evelyn of herself; with she said: "After all, Ray- -' her eyes aglow.-Th- en Iriiond is the only man I've ever eared a snap for, rea.Uy. .Of course he .did those thinga I, told, the. Judge about. But then men are sortTof peculiar. It isn't as if he doesn't love me Now I just Iff.' fr- . , w - .. i had-fclle'- n t-..- ''-- .. "' riend;TT fw iiwi Jj'istairs . eenneii you satisfied?"' "You bet Ym not What do you say to getting1 mar-- ' Wed again? Come on let'sl" , - Robert . 11" 111 " ; 1 r inn - i.j. ':.tlcally open the barred doors 6f any Southwr jait wnere a man titU'iius lf3 .women, WouU r: Bennett utter thwn? ; Tltf ne-lwqdy frfendi of tho youar couple waiteil mvain.;-- ; 'Alt thai Ben; war.e". "I never him before. Nor Mrs ntt tv.d nevertr.y ff vrfS j. ? 5emmtt hi Vr.om him either!' And Mrs. too iK&jf-&t'f.tHxii Bennett, Above: Karmond tX acquaintance. t Evelyn immedibtely begin a'fightt'3'.iree 'hei. Bennett Husband..' fche worked sq efficiently siidytire-lessly Athlete end "Son of in his behalf that he soon was "set at'literyi and retired to jiennett Late to Ute.' ?v, . they the Wealthy', ' , ;? A year late r. almost to Vn e dayyTioirfjrienfjF: I -4 XhatUndSsgaFajnily $ JTwere astoniaKat3Eoe5fTOatThe-1i63 $Jias He Looked at .the Time of Hia Re r:t-f'Ycs, I'm back,' she AoM er 9W tfttie; tbm- ' Marriage to . Pretty . panions of the-- ci,orus.' : "I,sli6uliJ ;kfi& rihiaine right here in the fi rt pNe". 1 io-- Sd Re ymondt Evelyn Farris. t but he has fcew usifiVi.- -. fcjTtty since Jhe 'hoetv tU 'tiPooh- -t '. 'x' tog and ha abutd m.8.-But. Evelyn clivnrrd her ni: $. Affpr'ilHr'd been in New York a-- dry two she called the n B30V'es nd .Tampa coirt on the' long distance telephone and whatever money got the third and .last performance t)f the "Follies. her petition for divoreen Hc loose in.. the. family was hers and not "The crowd stopped in a restaurant on the. way ; asked to withdraw & antedV-ands- he Vianrt'i An nni.li. n v;-- ;; - went 'back - - home. - Everybody i ? a;a irt iwas wearing stage costumes -- requestwas . Chattanooga and Bennett. about the that $500,000t she said, --and declared that she spent - and it was a gay crowd gathered If there were any signaltadtentures"Jtn,plf 'J x v a lot of it on Gill. She also showed letters he tables. ' , career for the year following, no bne heard ahc "' had written her from' England in which he Ipv-It was bo very gay that a wealthy young lumthem. And then, a fc woe1:s ago, everybf fl" ' ingly stated that if she ever wished to divorce ber dealer, Hubert M. Caruthers, and & com0 him she was at liberty to do so. He reserved the again was surpriB5d to hear, that she had SIK panion who happened to drop into the restaurant, same right for himself. felt justified in trying to break inl Bennett re ' , suit for divorce a second time. She charged he? husband with 'MitlAft of his matriage duties."' sented their intrusion and" words .were, passed wll pulled oat ot the suit after hs 1 f jewelry, some furniture and f 6,000,recovering Raymond; howjv-- r, nvde no reply to his wife's back and forth. , Then all of the crowd excepting J and Evelyn second suit. And it tfont throtiirh the cou't. ac n Bennett and a society woman left for Bennett went on to Chattanooga where she built a rivalling in magnificence the one sha had ' Lake, and as Bennett and his companion were - cordingly. hr the rccM'l time of nineteen law. And everybody 'raidiia,h!rt'rthr'ieb..df:'tbe owned on Long Island. She worked hard at the climbing into his roadster they were accosted by Bennetts!"" Caruthera and' the nuarrel was resumed. occupation of being a young society woman. Then She iBennetts went to Tampa, Fla. and there she Later it was said tbat thi tuaibennan tried to' ' But they couldn't fgr.fee Evely ttinfcj the . how- was invited to be the star to a production, "The telephone immediately tfter shq :recr4TMviSS."mef pull young Bennett out of the Society the Inner Circles were" "ever, claimed, that Bennett jumped but and met ". . sage from her Iavycr 'tailing her tliat, ' 4.'. really ! ' . was divorced at . the other man in the road. Suddenly there Was ft ;;;.';.' putting on for charity at Tampa. . It was his message, of that rova Evelyn r - Young Mrs. Bennett was such a hit injthe show r vshot Caruthers crumpled on the pavement there couf, Farrts that she felt Justified in inviting all the principals Bennett lnt6 on the "main itreet of Tampa In the heart of iJb'ft l. mt to her. home at Lakfi.Sehftett for a party after - west toast metropolis.7 ' Bennett Jeaped Into his " man ell in one wetkl ., sa-.- f -- tr - V ' I i man---sio- N tag faa,'t- in ; -- ', v : ' J .: lt Follies,-"-wMc- tkiJiiKf ie. " r station aneg .mo-rcnc- - CanrtherS, the Young Lumber- -' DealeMVhom Jiwmett Shot and Killed in a" -ltes'Caurant Quarrel. , i her-hus-- , . thku - ' mch , wr.S' . locked up. 'But alnioit astlie clesjngl , on him, his wife visited- the chic i p ponce and, ottered her jewels ?iu,uoo worth., el.lniiT-Hi- r bail-fohis release. But theCfficer explainec ' that he was held on a. charge offrnurdcr,' an! ' could not be released. :..:. ; Everybody thought that the accused man woulrf base his defense dn the de.claratidn thathe to defend his wife from the un welcome approajpbes of a man who" admired her. :I , . ".'"si " V : wll, "different than I thought it would be: Are and sped towar.t Bennett Lake, aV sixty mtle - " " v ,;-'- : and-whe- I Well-Kno- , Her wondering took her to the telephone! She called a .number the number answered she asked for Mr. Bennett. TT' ". said a familiar voice. "Yes?" ' Oh, Raymond bave you heard the news 1 -- , We're divorcedP-"Really? What do you know?: Still I suppose . you tave to expect.it when you go around filing petitions. Well,", sighed RaymonoV "what's to be dope now?" , , "Tliatr depends, doesn't it? What do you r think?" ' "H'm.t Are you perfectly satisfied?" . "Oh," answered his former wife thoughtfully, .'1 don't know. j It's a lit- - I - " . 1 ; -- - wonder--"'- SHI 'J If jsl ,. j r...!f : - 'f .MJr Greeted at hie door byooe of his guV!?, Bennett said, "I had is tow witn a dovntowi, and jhad to use my gun." Bennett saW he uidn' know the man's name .".uii his fmejt fuvnd hi' own ear and drovte into town find that $ boy hood chum Pefore the unerring aim o T v X jf ; It was an hour later '"that.-policy- , officen reached the Bennett home. J. Mrs.- - llane.t;toh. them that her husbani wai .rliagln hif dothait and would be ready in a go "wltl a.tjetf them. i'As Boui'.ett eume 'h ' asked, "How is h?" d, j. i . ' When they said M mi wei ;eadpi:BeTin'et' .. answered, : i in so fnuje ' l""" - :: . .V W an hour. o5vr-tinte- n., 4. . , "w. a .the slow worn gar ciiiHovnp.llintft,.,afifniy.l ippgnn ... v c i;n 11 11110111 U. VTill, IlOb 00 A1KI OXIU Vint I W1 WW ax;;ik former newspaper man and broker, and married Young Bennett, son of the wealthy Chattanooga " : t . It was back In the Spring of 1922 that Evelyn Farris began to attract-jsT reneral miblic attention. That was when ytnEAUT1FUL Evelyn Farris - Bennett an S.' XJjll, who had left journalisUo-fieWs-JAnd tliat's haw it hap ::gljiam a hmVdr. hroucht suit asrainst her in the swered the telephone at her home in penea inai young oen- New York Supreme Court for 1 76,000. Mr. Gill nett's rakish, expensive - looking roadster rolled Chattanooga,- Tennessee, the other day w the curb before Evelyn's home about a half alleged that he hd left her two years before, and thel voice of her lawyer said, over the wire:; when she was his wife, for trip to Europe, and hour fete? and paused there, with the engine had piacea -- various You're divorced. The ourt down in Tampa, : : roaring impatiently. ttiat before his sailing atu-Vin her name for safe keeDinsr. Floridawhere you filed suit nineteen days ago, The driver hardly had time to'shift gears be d has granted your decree. Mr. Raymond- 0. BenHe returned" to America, he said, only to find face was beside him. fore a laughing, that she had divorced him secretly and married nett, Jr., is no longer your husband." Ashe"caf sfiotrorwurd" a klsa fell BghUyTJir fe1s "Oh, that's nice," answered Evelyn. "Thank cheek above the fur collar of his coat And the Bennett, a weiV known athlete of Chattanooga, and son of a wealthy meat .packer. Also, stated next thing they knew they were in the office of you so much." Then she hung up the receiver GillT Evelyn walked out with' all his property, and went somewhereto ,tit down quietly and the marriage license clerkjwith an interesting " ' think it over. gome of it to buy herself and her new hus., ' " document, all blanks filled in anu the dotted linus "using an band orange grove in Tampa! hancU" in Evelyn is oliv&tf aced and redlipped, with lumtheir signed, inous dark eyes and a soft voice-- a true daughTime ryshed along at a fast clip for the next X Evelyn testified that during the six years she r was married to Gill she worked on the stage and ter of the Old South. A few years ago Broadfew hours. Then, almost before they were aware of it, the next day had come. And for the second way knew her as the Millionaire Chorus Girl" and the "Hetty Green of the Stage," and it was time in their lives they stood before a clergyman Below: The Alhambra Cafe, Tampa, Fla, WTier said that she had more money thaa any other and said "1 do." the Shooting Brawl Took Place and in Front : actress on the New York ftialtoV:': And that is the story of how It happened that c w - of Which Cariithers Was Killed, ' She' owned a i Harris Bennett was twice a palatial home at Huntington, L. tvelyn wife to on man ana all in one week! I., and later she built anotner in Chattanooga and mm i VAN DUZER. By WINIFRED r""' it" K', ; - - . ? , -- Husband,. Itaymond Bennett, Married Him Again in the Same Week. JL J J ' - fi ' , : r "Tm7K$lw.f'" a.- T-" - - 1 J Ute Portrait of Evelyn Fsrrl ttennett, the Beautiful and One- Time Ilich Broadway SUr Who, After Divorcing Her Second ' A . -- 1 Jf. , ;f:--c"T.'Ftr"i- f- e- T."' ''v ? I -ri.. v--:,7?n:- . ' r:irt v.- - . . 't-'- V r:n futures. . ! -"- , ' v i Kewspeperaian and . Broker, Whsi h Was Urnnt u Motion 4 ..,..J,.,, - ' ' k x . ' Remarried Himrr w f - - At Right: Aaother Ph olograph of tvelyn Farria Takes J net Afuf Her Pivorre from Her First Husband, William t v linn- - - ii J ' i " " tLL Lf' . ' s ' - - Mm; mmmm . i" A, |