The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-14

having occupied his new room one NIGHT an,
paid quarters rent in advance at the rat
Of So per week.
tn due course Of time, service OF motto
upon bis wife was made by pubication-al
advertisement in very obscure country
paper. Soon afterward he got his divorce
and immediately took the Junoesque type
writer up to New Haven and married her
But Mrs. B. No. 2, as she shall hereafter b,
designated, was uneasy. She was not salts
lied that it was all right, and even though he,
marriage certificate was in her pocket wa.
reluctant to go to the handsome fat that Mr.
b. had already furnished for her occupancy
Very well, " he said, 81 will not ask you
to until you are thoroughly convinced that il
Is all right. will take you to a lawyer, who
snail, In your name, commence an action
against me to procure an order of court com.
polling me to support you as my legal wife
If you get that will you be contentg"
Yes, that would satisfy her. And she got
it. The evidence of her marriage in Con.
necticut was all that was needed, but along
with 1t went the evidence of the preceding
divorce by Connecticut court of competent
authority in favor of presumable citizen
OF Connecticut within the jurisdiction of that
court.
And tho New York judge in his decision
took occasion to refer to the holding of the
court of appeals in the case of Moore VS..
Hegeman, ~ N. Y, p. 526 1883, Where a
marriage is valid by the laws of another
state, its validity cannot be questioned in
New York state. Thus, even if persons who
cannot legally marry in this state go to an
other state, the laws of which permit them
to marry, and marry there such marriage is
valid in New York state" The foreign di-
vorce could not, however, affect the interests
Of Mrs. B. No. |, a citizen of New York, in
New York state. Mrs. 3. No vent to the
fat
No attempt YVES made to conceal the situa-
ton from Mrs g. No. /, and when she beard
OF it she made something of a row about it.
as might naturally be expected from some
women under such extraordinary circunl-
stances. As, however, there was no dirninu-
ton in Mr.. B. Saffection and liberal provision
for her, she soon settled down to a philosoph-
zeal acceptance of the proposition that if it
was legally right, it must be right, of course.
In view Of her experience it is not strange
that Mrs 3. No. . took a lively interest in
the choice of her successor at the type writing
machine. The safest thing she could do, as
it seemed 70 her, was to bring on her sister
from Boston to take her place. She could
rct +-r1s onyICj- ole
roly-poly sort Of girl, plump as partridge
with a wealth of golden curls, bright blue
eyes, smiling red lips and the prettiest little
taper fingers imaginable Any right minded
man would have admired her. Mr.. B. did
And she took a strong liking to him; possibly
influenced in some degree by the reflection
that it is rather better TO be rich mans
wife than a SIS a week typewriter. So one
afternoon he took another trip to Connect
cut, engaged his old room in New Haven
and his former lawyer; had another
in the obscure country paper,
was once more by grace of a Connecticut
court made a free man, and straightway was
married to the plump sister; who, when she
camo back with him to New York, was
legally Mrs. B. No. 8. Mrs B. No .
was displeased, but finally concluded that it
was AL in the family" and there was no use
in "lickingn Mrs B. No. l laughed until
she cried, and then, on the plea of i'll health,
went to visit her mother in southern Illinois
There she took a leaf out of her husbands
book, got divorce from him in an Illinois
court. and when she returned TO New York il
was as the vito Of a man-one of Mr.
BIS friends by the way-who had gone
out there to marry her Mr.. B. failed
ct first TO see that what was sauce for
the gander was sauce for the goose" but when
he consulted his lawyer about it learned that
her equal right was based upon the sure foun-
dation OF the constitution of the United
States which in Article provides that full
faith and credit shall be given, in each state,
to the public acts, records and judicial pro-
ceedings of every other state;" which was
affirmed, in % U. S., p. ia, Pen
noyer VS.. Knapp, in the holding that "a mar
riage valid under the laws of one state is
valid in every state Of the Union and wherever
the jurisdiction of the United States extends"
Mrs. B. No lives exclusively with her
other husband, but her children, if she has
any, will be entitled to legally inherit from
both her husbands.
1t is all pretty muddle, isn't it, fruit of
tie crank theory that marriage is so sacred
that there shall be no divorce.
JAMES Il. CoENELLY.