, 1886-01-24

Maud Miller's Second Marriage.
CHICAGO. Jan. 23.-Regarding the
statement made in a New York telegram
to the effect that the daughter Of joaquin
Miller was married here to a theatrical
manager, j. s. Mccormick, an interview
is published here this afternoon with Rev.
X. j. Coghlan. The reverend gentle
men said that on the 9th inst, Miss
Miller, accompanied by Mr.. Mccormick,
came to his house and asked to be mar
ried in accordance with the rites of the
Catholic church. She volunteered the
statement that she had previously gone
through a form of marriage with a man
named Mackay; but that she had since
ascertained that she never had been really
married to him. and as a consequence had
never lived with him, nor did he seem TO
be anxious TO live with her as her hus-
band. Miss Miller, who was a total
stranger to Father Coghlan. had previous
ly obtained a license TO marry, which she
exhibited to the reporter, and which IL in
usual form. 81 do not desire, said Father
Coghlan, ito add anything to the report
of the matter which appeared in the
New York Sun. That report is substan-
TALLY correct
NEW YoRK. Jan. 23.-Maud Miller is
living at SO Sixth avenue, with her new
husband, Joseph Loudon Mccormick, to
whom she was married while in Chicago
last week, without a divorce from young
MacKaye, her first husband. Miss Miller
was first married about n year ago in the
Catholic church of the Holy Cross in this
city. When she thought of getting mar
ried Il Mccormick, she wrote n letter to
Father Preston, rector of st. Anne's
church, asking him about the validity OF
her marriage contracted with a man not
baptized. Father Preston said to-day he
wrote an answer to Miss Miller's letter in
which he gave no opinion OF a nudity Of
her marriage. lie simply said that
a marriage could not be had, ac-
cording TO the laws of the church,
with n person not baptized.
without dispensation, and added that the
question was one for the decision by the
local ecclesiastical authorities where Miss
Miller resided. Father Preston said that,
even though Miss Miller's marriage with
McKaye was invalid in the eyes of the
church, she could not have the marriage
performed again by a Catholic priest until
she got a divorce. The Catholic church
does not recognize divorces, but it recog-
nizes the laws of any state in relation to
marriage, and in the present case, Miss
Miss Miller being married to Mr.. McKaye
according to law, she could not be mar
ried again in the Catholic church until that
marriage was legally annulled.
At the lodgings of Miss Miller and
Mccormick, at IS Sixth avenue it was
said to-day that they had moved.
Arthur Loring MacKaye, Miss Miller's
first husband, declined to say whether or
not he would apply for a divorce. Miss
Miller was seen to day by a reporter.
While admitting a marriage ceremony
with MacKaye,s she denied hat a marriage
was ever consummated, and asserted that
her conscience was clear. She furnished
the following, which is the text ola letter
sent to her by Monsiegnor Preston. who
is chancellor and vicar general of the arch
diocese, of New York.
Miss Maud Miller MADAM. Your
letter of the 2sth inst. is received. A
dispensation from the ~impediment of
mixed marriage was obtained by Rev.
W.. f. Brady from this office
on Feb. 4, 1885. for yourself
and Arthur MacKaye, a baptized protest
ant. If it is absolutely certain and can be
proved that Arthur MacKaye was never
baptized, then, as far as the church is
concerned, your marriage with him was
null 1t is not, however, in my province
to pronounce as to the nullity of your
marriage, and this should be done by the
ecclesiastical authorities to which you are
now directly subject. Yours,
[Signed T. S. PRESTON,
Vicar General.