TRAMP STEAMER ELOPEMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3577, 17 July 1912, Page 7

TRAMP STEAMER ELOPEMENT.

PARENTS IN PURSUIT

M:- Jordan L. Mott, jnn., son o; Mr Jordan L. Mott, a millionaire iron manufjac}turer, jwl>o is an. intimate friend of the Duke of Connaught., eloped recently with an actress in the British tramp steamship Indradeo, bound for China. Mr Mott signed on as purser, and the actress is on the ship’s papers as a stewardess, because the vessel is not licensed to carry passengers. Mr and Mrs Mott, sen., and a prirat'O detective are in pursuit, hoping to intercept the eonple at Gibraltar, which is the Indracleo’s first port of call. Young Mr Mott has a world-wide reputation for unconventionality. He Is married to the daughter of a college professor with whom he eloped during his undergraduate days at Harvard. His wife left him three' years ago, because he developed a habit of shooting at imaginary burglars in their home, and since then they have lived apart. Recently he announced that he was tired of being a society man. and intended to go on a trip'round the world in a sailing ship. His .parents had arranged this trip for him in company with Mr Hector Fuller, whose reputation as a soldier of fortune extends from Japan to South Africa. It was believed that the voyage -would quiet the young man’s nerves. Instead of this Mr Mott .eloped, and Mr Fuller, in the role of a private detective, is now hurrying to Gibraltar to induce Mi Mott to change from the Indradeo to a schooner, as originally planned.