Show NOTED ACl ACTRESS I I HEW PERJURER x Court Vacates Annulment of Evan Fontaines Fontaine's F I Marriage I I NYACK N Y Jan 4 By 4 By the Associated 1 Press D Elan Evan Dan an annulment of her with Ster- Ster Ster Sterling ling Adair was as na vacated Wednesday by Judge Tompkins In supreme court here when hon he lie sustained charges of fraud brought by Cornelius Vander- Vander Vander I I Whitney In la detente defense of o a I 1 breach of promise suit brought agaInst him by the dancer Justice TompkIns who granted the annulment in July 1920 also ordered I tho district attorney to bring brine before a 0 grand crand Jury all records In the tho case caseI nub Ith a slew to Indicting Miss lIss ron ron- ron I an and 1 her mother tor for perjury In having obtained ob the annulment through fraud I A gross ro s fraud has hns ha been bou perpetrated ed ed on tho court Justice Tompkins rote in his decision Perjury has been committed by both complainant and her h r mother and deceit an and 1 co coi r- r resorted retorted to and Irregular and Improper practice Indulged In by I Ithe ithe the tho plaintiffs plaintiff's attorney of record Charles Miss Ml Fontaine obtained ob the tho annul annUl- annUlment annul annul- annulment annulment ment on statements that she sho did dl not Ilse Iho with Ith w Adair after their marriage The Tho affidavit submitted by counsel for Whitney Included several veral letters alleged to have hav been written by the tho dancer to Adair In which a 0 plan or of collusion to set jet aside their was outlined ollie dancer and Adair were ere ncr mar mar- married married mar married ried In Texas It was wa the tho claim of Miss ron Fontaine that she ho became sepa- sepa separated rated rated from her husband husban 1 three hours after their He Ho entered th the navy y and dle died 1 sometime later 1 1 COPIES cones or I copies of letters letter letters and telegrams submitted 1 by Whitneys Whitney's s 's at attorneys at- at attorneys purported to prose pro that Mr and Mrs Irs Adali Adah had lived Hied at various New York hotels during tho the period the dancer claimed to have hav been sepa- sepa separated rated epa rated from her husband Justice Tompkins decision set Act fOI forth tb that the th evidence e lenco Indicated AdaIr repeatedly had declined to en enter ter Into a 0 plan with nith his wife whereby the tho marriage might be b fraudulently annulled Miss and tier her mother re- re remained re remained In California during the tho Ny- Ny Nyack Ny-ack Ny aek ack proceedings ba hasing baIng Ing declined lod the Invitation of Whitneys Whitney's counsel to come east cast to attend the hearIngs Miss had an International Intern reputation as a II dancer an and created a sensation In 1920 1930 when hen she he Introduced ler 1 Indo Chinese movements mo to th stage In this country She formerly made mad her hr home horn tn In Inthe Inthe the Greenwich Village section of NewYork New NewYork NewYork York City and it was wu there she th he al- al alleged 01 al lege 1 she oho met young oung Whitney a grandson of the th late lat Cornelius Corneltus Van Van- VanI 00 00 |