THE DAILY NEWS

New York, New York, U.S.A.

5 January 1923

(page 3)

MODEL (ARTIST’S) WIFE

OF LOVE PRIEST GAINS.

Court Ignores Rich Man’s Charges of Bigamy.

Mrs. Maizie Ryerson

Detroit, Jan. 4—Efforts of Albert W. Ryerson, aged millionaire and head of the mystic love cult, the Order of the Temple of the Orient, to have the divorce bill instituted against him by his eighteen-year-old artist model wife, Mazie Ryerson, set aside on the ground she had committed bigamy, failed today, when a motion to that effect was denied by Judge Theodore J. Richter in Circuit Court.

The case was set for trial next week.

Ryerson’s attorney stated he was prepared to show that Mrs. Ryerson, who left her husband twenty-nine days after their marriage, ran away with Marwen Jamshed, Ryerson’s Hindu servant.

Mrs. Ryerson charges her husband with cruelty, stating in her bill that he beat her because she insisted on resuming her bohemian life as an artist’s model in the Chalet d’Art.

Ryerson admitted he beat her when she became intoxicated and insisted on taking a swim in nature’s bathing suit in Lake St. Clair at 3 o’clock in the morning.

Ryerson gained nation publicity more than a year ago when the book company of which he was the head went into bankruptcy, the failure being due to the publication of a book called the Equinox, official organ of the Order of the Temple of the Orient.

Albert W. Ryerson

Marwen Jamshed

According to Mrs. Ryerson her husband taught her many of the doctrines of the O.T.O., and insisted that she become a member. This she refused to do, she says, because of the sensual practices advocated by its rituals.

Mrs. Ryerson was Ryerson’s legal ward prior to the time he married her last September.