Show Jj ' i SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 22 1931 THE OGDEN STAVE ard EXAMINER TA? t Tf y a ii- ii I I JL 1 ii JHI V'Z iiy Ify 1 It Was Tattooed on His Chest But His i(Flirtation 33 With the Pretty Young Wife Was Just an Ingenious Fabrication Declared the - ii 'V- ihVW v "an sx W xCx-- v “V ' J4 I 8 Talesmen l 'Ww' V This Box Filled With Gandy and Given to Sweetheart Was the Inspiration for the Symbolic Heart Which Young Richard Marion Had Tattooed on His Breast But Jury Found That Mrs Margaret McGIynn Had iNoihing to Do W It in Spite of the Graphic Story of the Young Englishman Heart-Shape- d Attractive Study Mrs Margaret Cecelia McGIynn Vindicated by a N Y Jury of Charges in a Divorce Suit of Her Husoand She Worked in a Hospital to Support Their Child She Testified and Had No Time or Inclination for Flirtations Quoth Richard to the County Court Six hundred bucks 1 spent tear a truly royal sport My words of lore 1 meant But then 1 found her married Her husband I did meet With her no more I tarried E’en tho I'd thought her sweet 1 ' Mrs McGIynn took the stand Sht was crying softly ' ‘Yes I knew him I worked at the hospital where he is employed I had to work to support my little Margaret who is only three years old “But the charges against me are all ase I did not accept his invitations and I most certainly did not have anything to do with any tattooing My interest and attention are centered on little Margaret” Little Margaret smiled as her mother left the stand and walked back toward her seat Richard Marion looked down at the floor The Judge briefly addressed the jurors who immediately retired to their discussion room The husband and Marion paced the corridor arm in Artist George Kerrs Conception of the Scene as arm hours later the twelve good Richard Marion Described It in Court When andTwo loung true men marched back into the a Facsimile of a Candy-Bo- x Was Tattooed Over room court and annoqnced their verHis Heart Rut the “Sweetheart” Was Not dict Mrs was not guilty! McGIynn Margaret McGIynn the Jury Decided Smiles on a score of faces lit up the court room Sweet-face- d Mrs McGIynn had not then erred with the young Englishman Everyone was happy No perhaps not It had been an unprofitableeveryone’ husfor the day band whose suspicions or Judgment or both had led him to a legal attempt to sever the bonds of that which had looked so rosy andmarriage promis-lnfa few years before He appearing? a trifle angry left the court in a hurry 'i Nor did anyone detect an abundance of joy on the face of the slim young man from the shores of England Richard Marion’s countenance was one of and disillusionment complete dejection — t“e visaSe of one who had lost all faith in people including himself But the jurors had reason to believe -A that their verdict had been a popular one Friends and rushed to shake the hand of the wrongly-accused wife She with her little girl by her side thanked them through eyes The darkness of her griefmisty had passed A new dawn had com? to her And chivalry was soon for Mrs McGlynn’s attorneyavenged announced v that the tattooed “Romeo” had already overstayed his passport leave in the United States and would soon be deported That gesture ended the case of McGIynn vs McGIynn and must have cracked at least the inner heart of the young hospital fireman who couldn’t impress a jury Look find upon my breast this heart Tattooed at her behest From her this husband would depart — Forsooth I’ve done my best! i But up spake twelve good men and true And said as one: “ Be gone with you ” courts of law of New York have furnished the background for all kinds of drama Even in the old days when the Bowery district formed the centre of lower class gaiety and population courtroom events were far from prosaic But since that time as the great metropolis has spread like an octopus adding to its tentacles a host of communities down the bay east of the East River and north of the Harlem River traditions have continued to pile up Strange bizarre cases affording onlookers thrills of all kinds and arousing a horde of varying emotio'ns have been heard in profusion Yet of them all in recent at least the unheralded divorce years trial of McGIynn vs McGIynn seems to stand THE far-fam- C ed : fjmti s V ISutyJyn V x: i : & iWVayiWAWMVMMV-'- ' ''' - TV ' v V5 - VV v 4 ft vXo: 4 Richard Marion the Lothario Who Went Into Court With a Story of Close Friendship With Mrs McGIynn He Is Shown Above as He Bared His Chest to the Jurors Forlorn-Lookin- g f ' j : one Richard Marion The awaiting the which would enable them to reach the truthful verdict they were sworn to find In response to quesMarion d e tioning evi-den- ce -- that v : & s id jurors sat back in their chairs posed v' he was twenty - three years old a native and a citizen of England and that he was employed as a fireman at the Knickerbocker Hospital Tlie Tattooed Heart of At the hospital he Richard Marion Recalls said he met Mrs McOther Peculiar Cases of He liked her GIynn Subjection to the he added and invited Pigment Needle Above Is a Pbdto of Jack Hedcloud her out with him Who Was Tattooed Over Most of His Body and Head And then the slim With Biblical Scenes and Other Religious d and Patriotic Pictures young Briton strung out hir story All eyes centered on out It was held in the Bronx County Mrs McGIynn as she took the stand Court and the spectators’ seats were Spectators and jurors moved restCiowded lessly in their seats The jurors lisLet it be said now that the husband tened patiently and attentively deterwho was seeking a divorce from Marmined to sift out the truth Spectators garet Cecelia McGIynn sweet-facebound by no legal duty except the perd mother of their daughmaintenance of courtroom defunctory ter did not succeed She emerged corum looked at one another did from the courtroom with her name not like the trend of young They Marion’s completely cleared testimony The spectators who gather in courts the had been selected jury AFTER clerk of court made known ?rf an assorted lot Some are idlers to the frequent recesses the grounds on which the trial would and bench endure for the sake conferences The hueband hd charged that proceed £ Tf keeping oat £“ wlfe had b5en eheart of? dents of law some are vaToely sad-face- d three-year-ol- m taS well-wishe- rs V' - V ested in the outcome of one case or another nearly all feel at least a slight stimulus to the ego in such close proximity to the judicial machinery Taken as a whole however they are an intensely human lot not yet effete to the point where old precepts of morality or chivalry raise no spark within them That perhaps is why the spectators resented the tale of the young Once upon a time they Englishman recalled a man would not do what Richard Marion was doing Some were distinctly able to remember a day when a man who had kissed and told would not dare to look a member of his own sex in the eye thereafter Even if it were all the truth chivalry sealed masculine lips Arbiters of ethics have always held that not only is a man justified in to protect the name of a woman lying but that a lie in such cases is the only course open to him And as for telling an untruth which besmirches a lady’3 fair name — that is an offense incapable of condonement In what category the spectators placed the voung witness in the McGIynn case need not be considered no now that she was mar he protested ried the months that I knew her “During last Summer I spent six hundred dollars on her Then pals of mine told me about her husband see” he added his back across his chest tearing “here is a red hert which I had tattooed on my chest because she asked me to I had '3 5 1 -- "-- V Mrs Margaret McGIynn Shown in Court With Her Daughter Margaret d given her a box of candy She asked me to have a replica of’ it tattooed above my heart I really heart-shape- thought she loved me” As the reader may ob- - serve m young Marion’s photograph on this a heart was indeedpage tattooed on his breast and with it the words “True Love 5 M MUjl ' S McGIynn ’ July 1930” The jurors leaned for- ward to observe and having seen the strange exhibit leaned back The witness was dismissed Newspaper Feature Service H31 s Inspiring to Faithful Devotee of the Pigment Needle Are Sir and Mrs John of N Y Probably the Most Thoroughly Tattooed Couple in the World Conway At the Time of This Photograph Mr Conway Was Engaged in Etching Yet Another Design on His Body ti £( i v |