Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-12-10
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sion was suddenly precIuded from realizing
The dearest aspirations of his affectionatt
heart by joining his destiny with The Bridge
of his choice, the agent in the case being
his lawful but deserted wife, is thus related
by the Cleveland Plain Dealer OF Friday
evening. The scene must have been Pc
culiarly unctious:
Two men and two women called al Squire
Mller's sffice about z O'Clock last evening
and said they wanted TO be married. The
parties were Irish. The Squire asked them
if they had licenses, and they said they
hadn't. He told them to go to the Proba te
Court, procure the required documents, and
he would marry them. They accordingly
started off for the Probate Court. They
had not been gone long before young anc
buxsom Irish woman bounded violently intc
the office, and hurriedy asked
Have yes married couple to night
Squirrel
Constable Macarthur was present and
told her how matters stood.
The baste.' exclaimed the woman, 'he's
my own Lawful husbaDd--I was married tc
him three years ago ut Toronto. He poun-
ded me this moruin G, lore up the marriage
license and swore he'd get married aIore
night TO another woman
Macarthur told the woman to secrete her
self In closet, and when her false husband
returned from the Probate Court to rush
out and seize him by The hair when he stood
up to be jined' to his new found woman
The woman agreed to the proposition and
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party returned with their licenses made Out
in regular and proper form.
The first couple requested to stand up
was the closeted woman's husband and his
new found lady love. He gave his name as
flames ReHoylds and the woman gave her
name as Bridget Griffin. To the 'Squire'l
question if he had ever been married! James
replied thai he had, but his wife had died
three years ago in Toronto. The dead
4<ssonan here thrust her head wildly out OF
the closet and shook her fist ferceIy at the
wicked James.
/ The Squire told the pair to join hands.
They did so, when the dead woman in the
closet, unable to contan herself longer
rushed out and seized james by the hair oil
his head.
AN so I'm dead, am 7, Junie!' she sar-
casticaly shrieked, dead an berried am |
Jamie! Look me in the face, yer bIaggard
Amt your own Iegul wife, yer spulpane!
Had twenty-eight consolidated thunder
bolts descended into the office, james could
not have been more amazed It was dra-
matte picture over which Dion BourcicaulG
AMI Charles Read would have gone nearly
mad with delight could they have seen it.
The woman with june by the hair; Jamie
! cowed. GUM and shaky at the knees: the
other couple who were waiting to be made
one clingiug franticlaly to each other; the
Squire and the CoDsta Bile about on the point
OF bursting with laughter; all, all formed a
scene as rich as .fslapjacks and merlassess. -
DO you know this woman, Jamesp asked
the Squire, with as much gravity as he
could muster on SO short q notice.
James burst suddenly from the woman,
seized the poker, got behind two chairs, and
said:
'No.'
'Then,' said the Squire will marry you.
Go on, Jamie-marry another wife-I
won't interrupt ye's--but I'll put yes in the
penitenuary as eoon's 'ffs done' Saying
which she retreated again to the closet.
jamie stood confused and undecided for n
moment, and then seized his hat and darted
out of the Office like lightning, leaving his
dead wife; and the other couple, no objec-
t;ons being made and their license being all
right, were then united by The Squire and
went OH their way rejoicing. They were
soon followed by James dead wife, and his
late intended live Que, who Immediately on
reaching the sidewalk pitched turiousy into
each other. Constable Macarthur went
down and parted them. and sent them in
opposite directions.