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Show 0 1 K The unpretentious "You Cannot Ignore Any Longer the Legal Situation of My Husband FLS ! C Whom You Pretend Personally to Defend Against the Charge : X iSXt of BiSamy- 1 Summon You to Break Off Immediately A i f Relations With Anastase Vonsiatsky, My Husband, Unless edob,,a l" JL X7 You Intend to Assume Personally the Full Responsibility ZSSk. -v A. j f Your Conduct" Cablegram Sent by Mrs. Liobouff Mouroms w t 'UlrjRE always has been love, and ever since there were cottages we have regarded them as the best setting In the world for love. Love in a cottage has become tho symbol of true and undying affection. But now when some one mentions couple who have married and gone to live n a cottage as being on the most certain and Ideal road to happiness, someone some-one else may rise and object: "Ah, yes. Bat you forget the Von-piatakyal" Von-piatakyal" The marriage last winter of the young Russian soldier, Anastase A Vonsiatsky, to Mrs. Marion Ream Stephens, heiress to a fortuno of $4ri,000,G00, was one of those unions which are so interesting because of a variety of unusual elements. It attracted great attention at the time of ita consummation, and ever since It has been closely watched to see whether or not it would be successful. That is a judgment which cannot yet be made, and yet the case for love in a cottage looks far less hopeful than it did. For out of far-away Russia has come a girl who claims that she, and not Mrs. Stephens, is the legal wife of Anas-Use Anas-Use Vonsiat?ky. From her determined actions it would appear that she is bound to assert what she believes to be her rights and make the alleged invasion of them very costly indeed. And so another handicap has come to the ITttlo cottage in Ridkj Park, Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, whose inmates, people say, already al-ready were handicapped severely enough in their quest for married bliss. In the first place, there was the difference differ-ence in tho ages of the couple, for the bride was forty-five and the bridegroom but twenty-three. Such a disparity would not matter so much, critics declared, if the man were the elder, but one may be pessimistic about May and December alliances al-liances when they are a question of an older woman holding the love of a young husband. But that gap had no terrors for the bride. The ago of her husband might not be measured by his years, she explained. ex-plained. He might be said to bave lived many times his age through his experience ex-perience as a soldier in the successive armies that vainly battled against the crushing blows of Bolshevism. This army erperienco was just the troublo, if we may believe the statements of the woman who calls herself Mme. Llouboff Mouromsky Vonsiatsky. For it was while serving as a soldier in the Crimea that Vonsiatsky married her, she says. Then there was tho wide difference in the financial condition of the heiress bride and her husband. He had only what he earned through a humble $4-a-day job in the Baldwin Locomotive Works. But any fears that Vonsiatsky might prove a fortune hunter and be willing to let his wife support him were set at rpst when he remained right on his job. He and his bride returned from their honeymoon, and in spite of her wealth they went to live in what really is a cottage, cot-tage, and not a very fancy cottage at that. The daughter of one of the millionaire mil-lionaire founders of the National Biscuit Bis-cuit Company and the United States Steel Corporation settled down in a little lit-tle town, presumably to rise early, to do with one servant, when she had been accustomed ac-customed to dozens; to drive her husband hus-band to the station, instead of employing a chauffeur, and to put aside the finery and luxury which had been hers for years. This difficult experiment was in progress, prog-ress, love in a cottage was being put to this severe test, when out of the past of Von-iatsky came a woman who swears he's his only true and lawful wife. It was as if a slant hand had thrust i - Anastase A Vonsiatsky, the $4-a-day workingman whose honeymoon honey-moon with his heiress bride has been rudely interrupted by another woman's claim to be his only legal wife itself through the walls of the little cottage cot-tage in Ridley Park and an accusing finger fin-ger pointed straight at the couple dwelling dwell-ing there. What a rude shock it must have been to many hopes and plans It was an embarrassing- and a terrible thing. And then to the bride came this cablegram cable-gram from tho girl from Russia. It was addressed to Mrs. Marion R. Stephens. Ridley Park, Pa., thus refusing to recognize rec-ognize her right to call herself by Von-siatsky's Von-siatsky's name. Perhaps its effect was like that of tho handwriting on tho wall which so startled the royal feasters of Bab. Ion. The cablegram read: "You cannot ignore any longer the legal situation of my husband, whom you pretend personally to defend against the charge of bigamy. I Summon you to break off immediately all relations with Anastase Vonsiatsky, my husband, unless un-less you intend to assume personally the full responsibilities of your conduct. "LIOUBOFF VONSIATSKY." This proved to be the beginning of trouble for the cottage lovers. And it brought forth a tale that might furnish the plot for a modern novel of romance and adventure. According to tho story of the Russian girl, she met Vonsiat--ky when the red waves of Bolshevism were sweeping over Russia after the war. Mile. Mouromsky and her father lived in the town of Yalta, in the Crimea, which became the storm center of one of the terrific campaigns cam-paigns of the Reds and those who were attempting to save Russia from their grasp. The town, which was occupied by the Bolshcviki, was attacked and finally captured cap-tured by their foes, among whom was .yHnBS 'ant young of- - ' I i'T. .-!-: to ji lived in the town ho had saved and W she was legally married Hj to him, she says, only to gjwi be deserted later. V3 But a contradictory y$$M Mrv is told. Yonsiat-ky t$M 1F Ra'( nave admitted y V'- marrying the HB girl in in b k the lfc- ' inh.Wtanta.aPleA fcJ Hl wavo of anti- "4 uu- PsSql broko out and 1 threatened the lives of all the itizens of that race of which Mile. Mouromsky and her father J are declared to ba members. Vonsiatsky fi said to have &f- t firmed that he married the beautiful young Jewess simply to give her a Christian name and as his wife to save her from death in a pogrom. But this tho Russian girl de- I nies, and tells this story: "Everything went well after our marriage until the defeat of General Wrangel, when we were forced to flee to Constantinople. After severul months there, where 1 I was registered with the Dutch Consul as Vonsiatsky's wife, we succeeded in peaching Paris with my father. "We had lost almost everything, but friends helped us as much ae possible. Vonsiatsky had trouble with a Russian military leader there, Xi named General Miller, who op- posed the French government's giving him tho necessary carto de sejour, although I was able to remain re-main here by accepting an identity card under the name of Mouromsky. "Then Vonsiatsky went to America, and when he saw the opportunity of marrying mar-rying the wealthy Mrs. Stephens the tono of his letters began to change." The girl said she began to see what was being planned when she received letters let-ters from her husband which protested too strongly that there was nothing between be-tween him and Mrs. Stephens. Soon after that their marriage occurred. She insists he wrote, reminding her of his Russian ;he married, and v v ants. 5C0 000 dsmiMB ft. X' The former , Mrs. Marion Ream Stephens, Ste-phens, the $45,000,000 J f i I'eiress who is shocked to find be-right be-right to call herself Mrs. Vonsiatsky disputed , .1 I Vjr- . - J hard struggle for existence and pleading that necessity had forced him into a marriage with tho rich Mrs. Stephens. He urged her she says, to keep his previous pre-vious marriage a secret and destroy all evidence of it. Vonsiatsky, it is understood, does not deny the marriage, but does deny its legality, on the grounds that Mile Mouromsky Mou-romsky is a Jewess, and not an orthodox ortho-dox Russian Hence, the ceremony performed per-formed by the latter Church is not valid, according to Vonsiatsky, and he was free to marry when he came to America. But unless Vonsiatsky, who is aid to come from a noble Polish family can prove his statements and disprove those of the girl who declares she is his wife he stands liable to prosecution for bigamy. big-amy. This probably would be fatal not only to his love in a cottage, but to his chances of success in his position with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the president of which, Samuel Vauclain, is taking a special interest in the foreigner becanse he was introduced by his daughter, daugh-ter, the former Constance Vauclain. "I feel very sorry for Mrs. Stephens," the Russian girl declares, "but if she merely is the victim of Vonsiatsky's temperamental tem-peramental love making it is time that she realizes the truth. "Mrs. Stephens has had plenty of time to ascertain for herself that Anastase legally belongs to me, and that therefore she had no legal right to remain with him. We know that they have seen documents doc-uments sent to the Russian Church in New York, the authenticity .of which could not be doubted. After such proof that he married previously and that the girl in Par'3 whom he described to JP Mrs. Stephens as his sister yjg really is his wife and entitled to Ms protection, why does sb.6 protect him and stay with him and enable him to avoid the sacred obligations he took in the Yalta Cathedral in Crimea?" So a legal battle is likely soon to open between tho Russian girl and the American heiress for the possession of the young noble, soldier and workman. Mile Mouromsky will ask $600,000 in her suit for alienation of affection. The Russian girl wants the money and the man and his love. As for the cottage, cot-tage, probably she will be willing that the American heiress keep that. But the surprising charges brougsB the Russian 1 . -m ; , ar. by no mear.lB only embarrassing and unexpected W Stacle which Mr ..i, . and thelB mer Mrs. Stephens have encounter! their effort to find peace and hsppjB in 'love in a cottage " InuVed, thyl(B i met such a vnrjety of obstacles thittljB j existence up to dale has been injttjH l but peaceful. Mm Ever since settled down in modest cottage in Ri.il. y i'ark the.viM been relentlessly pursued by innaflB ble reporters, beggar" and crnb TOj every description. A The reporters were eager to finH -how the $4"., 000, 000 helre?s cn.ioyedJjW ting along witl rvant, drivinfEvj own car an d ing f r a 7 o'clock tKftg fast The beggars v.anted som ofB heiress's wealth, to relieve their ings And the cranl - -..ught tbe ing of the heiress':- millions for pdKS ual motif. n machines, hunts for iJFjgj Kidd's buried treasure and all KTKj other wild schemes ES At one time the :t,'.rtun:tie 'r-newspaper 'r-newspaper reporters anil ph-'toirrapRjg are said to have become so serloni the nowlyweds had I call on the police force to clear them awa; tH()!J The chief of police of R'dltf 11 M complains that the coming of HltY siatsky to live there has greatly his worries. When the news WR-A of America's greatest heiresses 'Rm to live in this modest workingmBM lage spread through the undcrwrgBU alleges that it sent hurrying to Park more burglars, second-story bI ers, hold-up men and other crceV l. he ever had to contend with bef of- J Vj The former Mrs. Stephens is a ter of the late Norman B. V Chicago multi-millionaire mftnuffl ) and the divorced wife of RaywBf Stephens, also of Chicago |