The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-03-24
WAS SHE MARRIED 4?

Commonly it is easy enough for man to
tell whether he is married OF not. And OF
dinarily woman knows whether she is or
has been somebody's WIFE In short, when
any persons, male or female, are mar
ried, they almost invariably become aware of
the fact. But Notwithstanding the usual IA
cilities for seeing this point, Il case has lust
occurred in New York, of an exceedingly
mixed character in which. if the testimony
of the parties is to be believed, q man was
sure he had married a woman, with all the
formalitics, incidents, ceremonies and acts,
both precedent and subsequent and she
was equally sure that he hadn't. and that she
was g no such Il woman These are the
facts, as developed in the trial
Miss Della Moore was teacher in one of the
public schools. She became acquainted with Bon
nell in fancy store where he was employed. He
visited her frequently. went out with her. and both
during the war; Bonnell enlisted, but the war
ending soon AFTER he was not long absent. After
his return he declared that Miss Moore was his
Wife. She denied this, but lost her situation as Il
teacher in consequence of if. Q'onnell had also
ntnaied that if she was not his wife, she ought 10
he.) Miss Moore then sued him Tor damage to
character, claiming five thousand doi!als Inc
suit came on and the extraordinary swearing be-
gan. Bonne produced witnesses who testified
that he had introduced Miss Moore to them as his
wife, and she did not object. He produced depo-
Sitlon from the late DR.. Mc intock, to the effect
that he (the doctor) had married Bonnell to young
woman giving the name of Miss Moore. at st. Pau's
Church, in New York. his wife and daughter be-
ing witnesses. He remembered the clrcum stance
distinctly. Bonnel swore that he had cohabited
with Miss Moore on several OCCASIONS, subsequent
to the alleged marriage. Several witnesses sup
ported his statement by swearing to crcumstan-
ces indicating that Bonne and Miss Moore We're
man and wife. Miss Moore's turn came next she
sWore positively that she was not married 70 Bon
nell She SWore, with equal posltlVeneSs, That she
had never been in st. Paul's Church with him. she
swore, with considerable vehemence. that she had
never cohabited with him. She contratilcted point
blank pretty much every statement made by him.
she produced witnesses to swear TO Tue nlferl con
traly of what his witnesses SWore TO. AND SO 1t
went on for nearly a week. both sides swearing
against each other and showing coacillsiVcly that
wholesale perjury was on foot somewhere. The
ease then went to the Jury, and as might have been
expected, the jury could not agree me great
point against Bonnell was an affidavit he had m ae,
after declaring that Miss Moore was MS wife, to the
effect that she not his wife, and that ne had no
matrimonial claim on her. This was produced by
Miss Moore during the trial. but Bonncll tried to
offset it by swearing that it was made ut Miss
Moores solicitation to enable her to retain her sit
uation as teacher. Though the case remains al :
most as it stood before trial, there IS strong and
general outside belief that Bonnel was really mar
RED to Miss Moore, as he claims.
| Col. A. w. Bradbury delivered very elegant
and scholarly address on st. Parick's eve, to the
| children of the Catholic schools of Portland.