Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-04-27
Ex-Gov. Spragues Second Marriage.
THE QUESTIONS THAT he ANSWERED
IN STAUNTON,

THE QUESTIONS THAT he ANSWERED
! IN STANTON.
The N. Y. "Sun" of last Thursdsy con-
tanned the following telegram from Provi-
dence. R l.. dated April 18th:
| Gov. Sprague's recent marriage has been
the means IF reviving the circumstancfs
connected with his divorce from his hrst
wife Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague Judge
HOadly Of Cincinnati and Winchester
b. itton of Brooklyn. cou' sci for MIS-
Kate Chas 9 Sprague, have publicly ALLEGED
! that Sprague, when Intercepted by tn :
clergyman who performed the marriage
ceremony in Virginia recently. ~ to Its
being lawful for him to marrv, said that
he applied for a iivorce fir no his wife first
on the ground of adultery. and that she
filed cross bill charging him with the
| same offence; that she Withdrew her
charges but he did not; that his charge
remained, and that the divorce was grant
ed on the charge Of adultery against his
| wife.
To ascertain what Gov. Sprague had to
say about it the ''Sun s" representative in.
| never told the clergyman that he had died
| the fist bill and that his wife fled the
cross bill Furthermore the Governor said
| that when he was married, be told the
clergyman. the Rev. Mr.. HulIihen, that
Mrs. Sprague withdrew her allegations of
adultery against him. and secured her di-
vOrcs on the grounds of n0n-support and
desertion. His own allegations Of adult
| cry had never been expunged from the
records Of the court Therefore he stood
technically as he innocent person in the
Gaze. This. said the Governor, seemed to
| satisfy the clergym IN, aud the ceremony
was performed.
The Governor was asked whether it was
really true that his allegations of adultery
had not been exuunged, aud replied: The
allegations Of nv CT ss bill stand to-day"
1t appears, however, from pstlgatiDns
made by the 'Sun's" cor, espOndent, that
Gov. Spraaue is in error on this pnlnt, rs
Gov. Sprague's case is entered at Kingston
as withdrawn.
Tie following is an extract from the d.
gest Of the Canons for the government of
the Protestant Episcopal Church-Canon
10, page 1875. under the caption ''Of Mar
riaoe and Div.rce."
mo minister, knowingly. after due in
quiry, shall solemniza the marriage OF any
person who has a divorced husband or
wife still living. if such husband or wife
has bsen put away for any cause arising
after marriage !; but this canon shall. not
be held to apply TO tn Q innocent party in
divorce for the cause of adultery, or to the
parties once divorced seeking to be united
again"
| Before consenting to marry Governor
| Sprague to Mrs. Dora Calvert. Rev. W..
@. Hullihen, Rector of Trinity Church
put in writing the questio ns given below,
and preserved the paper on which they were
written. The following is verbatim
copy, from the original, of the questions
pr0pounded to Govern Or Spra 2ue by Mr..
Hullihen
'Were you divorced from your wife
Mrs. Kate Spragus ia c 'se involving the
imputation of adultery against your said
wife ? and at the time # the decree Of the
divorce was there any imputation against
you on the ground of adultery?
Aud was the decree basel upon the
charges of adultery against your wife, all
charges of adultery against yourself being
previously withdrawn"
On returning to the rectory that night
after performing the cerem my. the rector
q .de the following minute on tina back OF
the paper on which the questions were
written, which We also copy from the
original
TRINITY CHURCH REcroRY.
Stanton, Va, MArG<, 8, 1888,
Each one Of the within qlsstions was
| duly propouDded to ey-G ". VIM. SprAg
aud was answered satisfactorily (oy him)
| in view of the canoHical require aents
| governing the marriage Of divorced per-
| son.
The questions we're also deliberately
read by tbs a.fora safd exG,v- Wm. Spra-
que and wets again satisfa;t 's,iS answer
! ed 10y him) in view Of the afnresaid canon.
WALTER O. HgLLIHEH.
The above indlsputable evidence shows
that Gov. Spragu. did not make the facts
accompanying his divorce known to Mr. .
Hullihen, for had he done SO he would not
have married him to Mrs. CAlvor or to
any one else.