| Show du p pp p Trying to Prove Little Ann Cooper Cooperr r t Jt t J ia Hewitt Only a Love Childr Child y r 2 a and Not Entitle m I r I to All ther the V y r P Ps W s t nee S li H J r Zv f Yr a interesting r ru reF u eF views views of Baroness Willed Her Herby i r C ra Erlanger d be- be below be below t w Isa i iv v low at the Long Long- Longchamps Long champs Yf r d f s rr ct t champs r race racer racetrack ace r oe n c D y tl the r track on the right f 1 k MY rk wk a t fi fiD D at a Newport New p 0 r t fancy dress balls ball k s kRich Rich Older rii e a ai if eke k American A AI I f faY aY The late I Peter Cooper i Hewitt whose belated sec seo- second second ond and love affair has fy resulted in a curio corm curious ous oua legal tangle knows how many mil mil- millions mil millions NOBODY 1 lions of girls sub were here filled with envy when hen th they y read not nol long ago that the Baroness thought 1000 a month quite insufficient insufficient clent to support her little daughter Ann Cooper Hewitt in proper style and that she was petitioning the courts to In- In Increase increase in increase crease the childs child's allo allowance ance to a ear But now all of a n sudden the posItion of little Ann has become far from en- en en lab v table Ie In fact probably not many gIrls would care to change places with her herand and face the awful shadow shado that men men- menaces menaces menaces aces her happiness Q d Tho girl known to the world orl as Ann t Cooper Hewitt He may be 00 den domed denied ca not not only the additional a year spending money her mother seeks for her but also the she is now receiving as well as all chance of becoming the sole ml- ml mistress ress mis-ress tress of a good many millions when she comes of age This is exactly what hat the brothers and sisters of the late Peter Cooper Hewitt are tr trying to do through gh litigation they o ha haa a recently begun in m the courts to courts tako taka away array from little Ann her share m in inthe the millionaire inventors inventor's great fortune and also in m the trust fund created by hy his hia grandfather her old Peter Cooper And this tumble from tho soft lap of luxury to the hard tare bare l boards of poverty is by no means the blackest part of the shadow that men men- menaces aces the poor little rich girl Before Defore the tho brothers and sisters of the late Mr Hewitt are through with their day in court they may prove that Ann AnnIS Annis IS only an unfortunate love child child- child that hat her mothers mother's marriage the to-the fa- fa famous fas fa famous s inventor after the latter had de- de deserted de deserted her 10 love lo e mate ofa of a lifetime bas basno basno no standing in the eyes of the tho law lass la Even Cven If it Ann is II finally allowed ed to re- re tain ic-tain tam lain some share of the Peter Cooper Hewitt millions she and the time Baron d Er- Er Erlanger Erlanger langer Er-langer langer and the baroness mast endure seeing the tatters tatter's interesting past laid laid bare bare to tho the eyes of a ci itous US world On tach ch of her matrimonial ventures Jo number at least four mil will be turned the most powerful searchlights priced priced high law lawyers ers and detectives call bring to bear This will be bo quite essen essential teal to any effort to establish the conten conten- con contention ten Lion tion of Mr Hewitts Hewitt's brothers and SIS SIS- sis sisters ten tera The first step in m the leg legal l proceedings I they have started will be the attempt to toI I provo prove that the marriage of the late Pter Cooper Hewitt to Mrs Maryon re now the Baron of Paris Parma was Mas as void oid old and that therefore their heIr daughter Ann Cooper Hewitt ho ho according to an affidavit In in the ac- ac achon ac action honas lion hon was as born several years before their alleged illegal megal marriage did not become his legal heir I If this contention is upheld the daugh th daughter daughter ter ler will not only lose loco the bulk bull of her father estate estimated at more than but the principal of the trust funds left to him bum by the will of his grand grandfather father Cather Peter Cooper The issue is to be decided in an ac- ac accounting accounting ac accounting counting suit filed in m the New York Suo Su- Supreme Su Supreme preme Court by the trustees of ot the funds established in fn the tho Pe Peter Peter r Cooper will for Peter Cooper Hewitt They ask the court to determine to whom the principal pill pal of the trusts is to be paid and m in their suit not only name the present 4 and her Infant daughter but hut all the heirs heirs-at heirs law of Peter Cooper n 11 order signed by Justice I M Mr y r 4 K it itI iti I r S t k H d r rk rS k to Y i lr of L n Y Ili e fI efI fIe rk k fIs i s e a t 1 q 3 t tJ J ro t t r F o a i si sr s a b bo a yf 5 9 t tl ta l a s yea r r tr r PS ti tit t z t tn tr n 1 1 ap f 4 i But while Mrs re was getting II a huge hUgG permits counsel for the trustees to use usein usein m in their action a II judgment roll filed in inthe inthe inthe the I New New ew York Supreme Court on July 26 1010 1910 in m a suit of Maryon J Den Den- Denning Denning ning against Ste Stewart Stew art Denning One of the counsel for the trustees stated in m his it that one of the issues IS whether hether the infant Ann Cooper Hewitt was as by the marriage sub sub- sub sub- subsequent subsequent sequent to her ber birth of her putative parents filar Marion on J and Peter Cooper He Hewitt HeItt Itt The affidavit sa sais ays s further A previous marriage of the defendant defend defend- defendant defendant ant Maryon J Hewitt to Denning had been annulled by thi court on the th ground that she was at the time of her marriage to Denning the wife Ife of dar P Pedar S Bruguiere re Brugui re was still liv- liv living liv living ing mg at nt the time of her marriage to Peter Cooper lIe Hewitt itt This I is part of the necessary proof From all this it is evident that the courts of New Yolk regard the tho matri matri- matrimonial matrimonial adventures of the Baroness dEr langer Janger as a sadly tangled affair Also you sic ace they seem inclined to accept asa as asa asa a fact tho the allegation that little Miss s sAnn Ann Amin Cooper Hewitt was born three or four cars ears before her ber mother went to the bother of going through n a marriage ceremony with willi Mr Hewitt What many in those circles of fashionable fash fash- fashIonable fashionable society where the Baroness was on once co a very lively figure ore are wondering is whether if she IS placed on the witness stand she will be forced to admit still other allier smirches on her name Tho The present baroness was as originally oft Miss Mils Maron Mar on Andrews Andre the daughter of of- of t an old but not very wealthy or socially prominent Southern family Her piquant beauty won the tho heart of Dr Pedar Bru Bru- gul re a millionaire Californian and backed by his wealth she the at onto once became be- be became be became came the mistress of a 8 New York man man- mansion mansion sion lion and a n villa at exclusive Newport amount of en- en enjoyment enJoyment en enjoyment out of her spectacular debut into the smart set her husband seemed to find some disconcerting flies files of kind Imd or another in the ointment of his happiness At any late ho he quickly faded out of the New York and Newport pic- pic picture pic picture ture and it was rumored that the couple had been dl divorced arced in Reno Mrs re proved as she has been doing ever since that she looks with little favor on what some Borne describe as single blessedness Very soon after the disillusioned California millionaire ceased to be a figure in New York and Newport came the announcement of her marriage to Mr Stewart Denning a wealthy Wall Street man He remained by her side not much longer than had Dr Bruguiere re and the manner of his departure was rather odd He succeeded in convincing the courts that there was something shady about the re divorce orce and on this ground had hod his Ills marriage annulled After the Southern beauty was freed from her second husband on his hie Initia Initiative trove tive she sha returned to Newport and at- at attracted at attracted to her court some of the tho gayest of society's bachelors bach lors widowers ers and di- di divorced divorced di divorced men including such sueh notables as Reginald C Vanderbilt and James J JVan Van Alen Society was as not surprised that men like these should find pleasure e in the companionship of the pretty heroine herome of ofa ofa ofa a pair of short lived marriages but It was knocked quite oft off its feet when It saw Baw them Joined by Peter Cooper Hewitt What this grandson of old Peter Cooper a II man known the tho world over for his scholarly attainments and his remarkable electrical inventions could see to admire in m this gay little so- so social social so social cial butterfly was something nobody could understand He Hs was VII wa nanny many years ears older than she and he ho had been married e 1 Inventor i t 4 M r S Si i i K b ld e 4 tY S tM 9 o w ww w J I a Z dr s 1 1 P 1 q Vy k s ak t r a ax x kc r i y as ast I I t f r It R 1 f i S Si I r rv ra v a tv h k i t aa 4 w e A b ry M n M GrI for the better part z J eS A of lifetime to one a I r of tho l r F Fe daughters of e i ia a 3 e Peter Cooper a 8 b seemed to 4 find Mrs y y Denning more fas- fas n 1 r a aa v than any a the test tubes in his scientific lab lab- laboratories oratories had ever i revealed Ire pushed Y k Vander t belt and all ilia zest of her numerous coterie of admirers sL Into the background W and began to be seen with her almost everywhere every where here she n went ent Of course the news of what mischief her elderly husband was as up to was sae as not long in reaching Mrs Hewitts Hewitt's H ears oars but still she did not hurry burry about getting a divorce orce Evidently she was in m hopes he ha would soon tire of his new plaything and return to her arms When she finally applied for tor and ob- ob obtained ob obtained her decree Mr Hewitt showed Koss ho an ious 11 ho had been for this free free- freedom freedom freedom dom by rushing his lis s to New Jersey Jeney and gom going through a marriage with her The strangely paired weds newly went straight to Palls taking g with them as weds newly are III e a ale A le IA to tn do a 1 year old n v nur-v ft r nl the child child the baby bay born to the thA new Mrs Mr itt Hewitt as was ilas now revealed repealed for tho first first time four years before The kisses of this youthful bride of his seem to have been too joyous a shock for a man of Mr Heuitt's HeItt's He Hewitts Hewitt's Itts Itt's age to en- en endure endure en endure dure His health began to fail fall soon oon after settling do down don n in a luxurious Pa- Pa Parisian Parisian Pa Parisian love nest neat and within a few years J ho was dead When his will was read it was sas found he had hod cut off his first wife without nI a n I penny and left leCt practically his entire The Te baroness and her daughter Ann as the child looked about the time the mother married Mr Hewitt four Hewitt four years year after the girl was born fortune to the former Mrs Bruguiere- Bruguiere Bruguiere re- re Denning and little Ann He lIe generously allo allowed ed his widow to retain one-half one her hor shame shale in his Ills estate If she he marrIed and in m this event the share of the girl the will referred to toas toas toas as my daughter was to be doubled As Ae perhaps ion can guess Mrs Hewitt was as riot not at all slow about laying aside her mourning in m order to take ad- ad advantage advantage ad advantage vantage lot of this thoughtful provision on her latest husbands husband's part There was no lack of me men amen who ho would have liked to marry her both on account of her beauty and her millions But the tho therace thoI I race ace acc for her heart finally narrowed down downto downto downto to the liveliest kind of a eon contest test between bet Baron Robert and the young Shah of P Persia The baron was as the winner inner not only on account of his personal chaims but because Mrs Hewitt was I to brave the competition she feal foamed ed to find m in the harem of an nn Oriental potentate 5 Sp the Shah v went ent bae back to his peacock throne disappointed The baroness and her husband are arenow arenow arenow now in m this country to direct the fight in of what hat they behe believe behee e to he be little Anns Ann's tights l It is 8 said ther thor law la will maintain that under the lawa s bath if d New York and Now New ew Jersey the theJuan Juan La L e c winch which tooL took too place between Mn r Mar A s Denning ro and Mi II itt in III December 1918 1018 es Ann nn Cooper lIe IttS Itt'S birth birth- birthright birthright birthright right and made her the millionaires millionaire's le- le le ato heir In her t a few months ago ngo to have lien her daughters daughter's allowance ance increased to a eal Baroness testified that that she ho he herself lives at the rate of OOOO a year ear car One wonders onders that the figure is ms not larger when one sees aces her l OOOO diamond ankle anllo brace brace- bracelet let designed let designed by her new husband but It is said not paid for by and hum him and the wonderful hats and gowns which set setoff of her still fresh beauty tp to such sueh per faction on She and het her noble husband maintain a splendid home in m on and one of the most Ot fash- fash fash fashionable sections of 01 the French capital and are famous in certain circles of Parisian society for the lavishness Ith which they tam oM- oM M oMI I |
