The Evening World

INVENTOR LOSES
BRIDE HE WON
BY WIRELESS

Mrs. De Forest Gets Decree in
Suit Secretly Filed at
Albany.

SURPRISE TO FRIENDS.
Husband Dropped Suit He Began
Here and Made No Defense in Hers

Dr. Lee De Forest, the Inventor, has
lost in a plain, old-fashioned divorce
the beautiful bride he won in a
romantic wireless telegraph courtship.
Friends of the pair heard to-day with
some surprise that the wizard's wife,
Lucille S. De Forest, has gained an
interlocutory decree at Albany, where
she secretly filed her suit.
Dr. De Forest made no defense, and
an absolute divorce may be entered
this fall, which will permit the young
woman to wed again if she wants to.
The doctor's friends understood he was
prosecuting the divorce proceedings he
filed against his wife, in which he
named Witt C. Flanagan, a brewer, of
the firm of Flanagan, Nay & Company,
a man of reputed wealth.
Soon after their marriage at the St
Regis Hotel in February a year ago
De Forest and his bride went to Europe.
A few months after their return they
separated, Mrs. De Forest declaring the
Inventor was entirely too jealous of the
brewer. Dr. Forest engaged detectives
and sent them to the Hotel Braddock,
at Eighth Avenue and One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth street, in August, 1906, to
smash in a door and see what they
might find. One of the sleuths said he
had followed Mrs. De Forest there.

Suit Was Dropped.

They didn't break the door, but they
found the name "T. C. Foster, Trenton,
N. J." on the register, and handwriting
experts said that was just the sort of a
"fist" which appeared on the book at
the Hotel Marie Antoinette, where
Flanagan had registered.
Soon after this Mrs. De Forest went
to live at the Hotel Marseilles, Broad-
way and One Hundred and Third street.
She denied the charges made by her
husband and said she would fight it
out with him in the courts, that De
Forest's suit was dropped was not gen-
erally known.
Dr. De Forest met the young woman
who has just cut loose from him at a re-
ception of the Art Club. She was Miss
Lucille Sheardown and lived with her
mother in West
One Hundred and
Fourteenth street.
The inventor was
smitten; in love. He had rarely met any
one who took such a deep interest in his
wonderful wireless inventions as did the
pretty girl. They had known each
other but a short time when he taught
her to send and receive wireless mes-
sages, and later he put up a wireless
station on the roof of her mother's
house.

Proposed by Wireless.

From his own apartments in the Vic-
toria, in West Ninety-seventh street he
could then communicate with her in
truly up-to-date style.
It was over the roofs of many houses
that the proposal at length was flashed.
Miss Sheardown accepted through the
air and the wedding plans were
wire-
lessly worked out.
Dr. De Forest said to-day he had not
granted to his wife. His lawyer, Max
N. Steiller, seen at Far Rockaway, ad-
mitted, however, that the decree had
been signed in the Supreme Court. The
divorce
was granted
on statutory
Grounds.

Bride Won by Wireless;
Husband She Divorces