Wichita eagle., 1888-12-21
HAD TWO HUSBANDS,
And They Both Escorted Her to Court to
Have One Marriage Annulled

| GALVESTON, Tex, Dec 20.-Two we'll
dressed and fine looking young men
dropped into Justice Spann's office today.
| One asked the judge if he remembered
| having married him about month ago.
| lhe Judge, after some reflection, re-
Piled that he remembered the circum-
stance, and was about to add that he also
remembered that he had never been paid
for performing the ceremony, when the
young man interrupted him with the
startling intelligence that his companion
was the husband of the girl he had mar
RED. Matters becoming interesting.
Judge Spann listened to an explanation of
the affair. 1t appears that the young girl
with two living husbands married hus
band No. l, keevney. in San Antonio, last
May. He was private in the regular
army, his regiment being stationed at San
Antonio at the time. He says that he ex-
planned to the girl, Mary Goodhardt, be-
fore the marriage, his position, inform
ing her that through the vicissitudes of
soldiers life, he might be called away
from her at any time. This, however. did
not deter her from marrying him. A few
months after his company was removed to
Utah and he left his bride behind.
She drifted to Galveston where about a
month ago she married husband No O.
Antonio Pinto. She heps up a cores
pondence all the time with her soldier hus-
band in Utah. Cleaning from the tenor
of her letter. that she was lonely, and hav-
ing an opportunity to secuIe a furlough,
husband No. /, not knowing Of his wifes
second marriage, concluded to come
to Galveston and visit her. I'M
agine his surprise when he found
her welded to another This discovery
was that which led to the visit to Judge
Spann's Office. The two husbands seemed
very friendly, with not the least spirit of
rivalry between them, each appearing will
ling III fact TO relinquish his claims to the
other, but neither seeming to care particu-
lary to be the recipient of such unselfsh
They then appealed to Judge Spann for
solution of the difficulty. He suggested as
the best means out of it, to have the young
girl prosecuted for blgamy To this alter |
native both of the husbands emphatically |
demurred. Husband No . however, |
wanted 1t placed beyond her reach to have |
him arrested for bigamy in the event of |
his desiring to again marry. Judge Span |
suggested that the much married girl be !
brought to his office. This was done with |
each of the husbands acting as escort. |
Though bathed in tears, the young girl, !
who is very beautiful sObbed out a confess
ion, without extenuation, corroborative of |
the above statement of facts whereupon
Judge Spann drew up an affidavit,
which he requested her to sign, &C
knOwledging her first marriage, and
further that she knew her first husband
was living when she married the second.
This statement she signed under oath
without apparent reluctance. When this
was done each of the husbands started to
take leave of the wife, each addressing her
as Mrs. -, the wife of the other
Judge Spann protested against being
thus left alone in charge of woman with
Two living husbands. despite the fact
If her being very beautiful, and in
sisted that the husbands take her away
This they did, she offering each an arm and
5he trio departed, leaving Judge Spann to
ponder over the strange circumstances