104 N. 20th St.
HARRIS SUES TO
ANNUL MARRIAGE
TOSOUnUB
Wealthy New York Bank
er Claims His Wife Im
posed Upon Him
NEW YORK, Feb. 2«.—(By Asso
ciated. Preee.)—Trial of the suit
brought by Beverly D. Harris, elderly
prominent banker, to annul hla mar
riage to Eleanor Aline Lee Harris,
to whom bis counsellors referred as
“a woman of the underworld who
palmed herself off as a member of one
of the most aristocratic families o(
the southland,” was begun today in
supreme court. After the selection of
a jury Mr. Harris' attorneys launched
into a detailed account of the manner
in which, according to Harris, he was
inveigled into marriage ‘‘with the beau
tiful young woman who might be taken
for his daughter instead of his wife."
The charges were categorically denied
by counsel for the wife.
The opening addresses to the jury
developed an unusual situation, in
which the defense' attorneys admitted
and attempted to prove that their client
was born out of wedlock. The plain
tiffs counsellors, on the other hand,
attempted to prove the contrary. In
the latter argument, Mrs. Harris’ birth
date was placed in 1887, while her
attorneys declared she was eight or
nine years younger.
Met In Memphis
Harris met Eleanor Aline Leg in
Memphis, Tenn., his attorneys said,
and she told him she was the daughter
of Stacker Lee, one of the Lees who
operated the famous Lee Line of Mis
sissippi river packets. He became en
amored of her and when, later, she in
formed him by telegraph from Kansas
City that she was ill and wanted him.
