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Show HER SUIT IS I DISMISSED I Mrs. Guggenheim Can Mli Not Have Divorce of 1901 Annulled i Chicago, Ian 11 The application of Mrs Grace Brown Guggenheim to f have her divorce from William Com genheim annulled was dismissed by t I Judge Heard here todav for want of equity. I Mrs Guggenheim bases her apple I nation on the allegation that when sh-- j obtained her decree she swore erron- f eously that she was a resident of III!- 1 The then Grace Brown married the millionaire mining and smelter man f I a 1900 and the decree of divorce was entered the next year with aliraonv in ithe lump sum of $150,000, B, Both Parties Remarry. f Since the divorce both parties to h i the suit have remarried. u According to Jacob Newman of L- counsel for v. niiam Guggenheim, Mi. ik Guggenheim's first husband was Cbas. P ) Herbert of Washington, D. C. A li- ; orce separated them. Her marriage i i Guggenheim came next, but Mr C Newman states, they lived together R only three days After this divorce W Mrs. Guggenheim married Jules Rog- I 1 er Wahl. a Frenchman, resident ol t New York l "They lived together for four years related Mr Newman, "when Wahl returned to France. Whether f the report Is true that Wahl's parents K had his marriage annulled in Kraiue I do not know " ! Guggenheim married Miss Amy Steinberger, by whom he has a son, I William. Jr jL Illinois Divorce Illegal. lr It was after Mrs. Guggenheim mar f ried Wahl that she filed suit in New York state for divorce from Guggen- I helm claiming that the Illinois dl- vorce was illegal. The case went to the supremo court of that state, where her bill was dismissed, ln 1!0U she filed another suit to set aside the ori- b Inal Illinois divorce, but Judge Hon- I fire denied her right to file ber peti- I non after the lapse of eight years. H She sent this case to the appellate !r court, where II is still pending If In the present suit Mrs Grace C.ug-genheim C.ug-genheim claimed thai Guggenheim knew she was not a resident of nil-nois nil-nois when the divorce was obtained Does Not Want Money, Mrs. Guggenheim, or Wahl. claims j that she does not want money, but wishes to ascertain beyond doubl ' whether the divorce was legal. Judge Heard in giving his decision, i riticised the present divorce laws of Illinois and urged that steps bo tak- j en to change them. He pointed out j that Mr. and Mrs Guggenheim obtained ob-tained the divorce of 1901 by fraud Judge Heard held that if fraud were prai ticed in securing the divorce Mis J Guggenheim was a party to it This factor weighed largely with the court j in his derision against the complain ant, who was not in court when the decision was rendered. on 1 |