SENDING PROOFS
' OF HER MARRIAGE
|TO AMERICAN EMBASSY HERE IS
MIME. MOUROMSKY OF PARIS
Who Claims to be Legal Wife of ^n
astase Vonsiatsky, Husband of ^
Mrs. Marion Ream Stephens
The American embassy at l’aris is
forwarding to the United States in a
diplomatic pouch the documents filed
with it by Madame Liobouv Mourom
sky, who claims to be the nrst and
only legal wife of Anastase Vonsiatsky
vlio was recently married in the Unit
ed States to Mrs. Marion Buckingham
Keam-Stephens of Thompson and Chl
1 cago.
Madame Mouromsky, announced
that she would leave for New York
>v ithin a few days "to prosecute to th<
fullest extent" the complaint against
: the legality of Yonsiatsky’s marriage
ij tlie United States which she lodged
at the American embassy Thursday.
"I am not after money,” Madame
Mouromsky declared. "I want redress,
. Ld 1 want this man punished for ruin
ing the best years of my life.”
Madame' Mouromsky, who said she
would be accompanied across by her
father, is understood to have secured
passage on the steamer Rochambeau
sailing from Havre yesterday. While
all the documents in the case are be
ing dispatched to America by the em
bassy. Madame Mouromsky said she
had a full set of certified copies which
she would take with her. She claims
among other things to have a letter
from Vonsiatsky written before his
n arriage to Mrs. Stephens asking her
not to reveal their secret and burn up
all correspondence.
Madame Mouromsky insists she ia
an Orthodox Russian and not a Jew
ess, as she understood was being re
presented to the Orthodox church au
thorities in America.
