Mayme Ryan Files Suit for Divorce from Tommy

• Title	Mayme Ryan Files Suit for Divorce from Tommy
  Short Title	Mayme Ryan Files Suit for Divorce from Tommy
  Source ID	S132
  Text	Mayme Cook Masters Ryan of Monarch, dark-haired daughter of a Sheridan-Wy oming coal company employee who married Thomas Fortune Ryan II at Hardi n six years ago, has brought suit in the Laramie county district court fo r seperate maintenance from her socially prominent husband, it was disclo sed here today. Mrs. Ryan charges her husband, grandson of the late Thomas Ryan and sai d to be one of the heirs of the eastern capitalist, with intolerable indi gnities, desertion and failure to provide, according to Associated Pres s dispatches from Cheyenne. (cont) Asked to comment on her action in a telephone conversation this afternoon , Mrs. Ryan asserted: "I don't know anything about it." She made the sam e reply when asked when she had last seen her husband. Mrs. Ryan in her p etition alleged that Ryan had failed to provide for her since Jan. 12, 19 32, and that he had deserted her "more than one year ago" the dispatche s from Cheyenne said. The petition, filed by Attorney Sam Ginsberg of Denver, said teh only pro perty Mrs. /ryan owns is a summer cottage near Monarch. Settlement of th e Ryan fortune and property will be sought, the petition said.Mrs. Ryan s aid she she telephoned her husband numerous times and asked him to send h er money with which to live, and had requested fare so that she could joi n him at Denver. The charges were reversed, she said . The petition said he had repeatedly informed her of "intimacies" with oth er women, but declined to mention names. The petition declared Ryan was one of the heirs of the late Thomas F. Rya n, and said the estate was believed to be more than a million dollars. She also seeks temporary and permanent alimony. The Ryans were secretly married at Hardin, Montana on June 27, 1931. On e August 11, some six weeks later, Ryan announced he had been disinherite d by his father, John Barry Ryan, because of the marriage it was assumed. Mrs. Ryan on August 11, 1930 had been awarded a divorce decree from Thoma s Masters, ranchman, by District Judge James H. Burgess. Ryan had lived occasionally in Sheridan for several years before he marri ed the then Mrs. Masters at Hardin. She gave her age as we at the time o f the marriage, and he gave his as 32. Mrs. Ryan is now living at the hom e of her father, J.E. Cook, at Monarch. Cook is a weigher for the Sherida n-Wyoming Coal company. Thomas Ryan was said by acquaintances her today t o be in Virginia "raising chickens and flowers" on a farm where he has "s ettled down".
  Linked to	Family: Thomas Fortune Ryan, II / Mayme Bell Semon