The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-02-01
The TWO-HEADED GIRL.
A Queer Case Which Oace CANA Before
New York Lawyer.

A Queer Case Which Oace ranA Before
New York Lawyer.
In the way of twins, says New York
letter to the Buffalo Express, you have
probably seen the so-called wo-headed girl,
Milie Christine, consisting of two negresses
joined together by nature much more com
pactly than were the famous Siamese twins.
Mllie and Christine have been shown by
Barnum and other exhibitors for many
years, and are now aged about forty The
Siamese brothers married two wives, as
you will remember, and lived in South
Carolina after retiring from the museums
until the death of one from disease was i'm
mediately followed by that of the other
from fright A post mortem examination
proved that physicians had been right in
saying that a surgical separation would
have been fatal. In the case of Millie and
Christine even the suggestion of parting
them can not be considered, because they
are joined from their hips nearly up to their.
shoulders. But it was not "a question of freak
lsh anatomy which led me to write of these
women. Ex-Judge Dittenhoefer is a New
York lawyer to whom show people 90 with
many OF their knotty legal questions.
but no case was ever presented to me
that was easier to decide, and vet more
curiously novel," the lawyer recently said
to me, "than that of Millie- Christine. The
death OF Dick Fitzgerald, through whose
show agency much of the business of the
museums was done, recalls this matter
which came to me about year ago, but has
never been published. Fitzgerald called at
my ofhce with letter from Millie- Christine
requesting me to find out whether, if thew
We're to marry one and the same man. it
would constitute bigamy in the eve
OF the law. 1t was evident enough. al
lnough they did not say so explicitly, that
an oher OF JOINT marriage had been made to
tnelh ana that they contemplated an ac-
ceplance IN case the tripartite union would
DC lawful. They lurged that they had al
ways Deen advertised as "a two-headed
Ent the Claim being made on tfeirsbehalf
snas they were one individual with two
neaus, Tour arms and four legs. If that
view oi tnem could be accepted in law then
q p single husband would be quite proper
nu. 'ney We're pious Methodists and had no |
LULU. mo:ioh oi doing any thing wrong, legally or
l.elsiousiy' Fitzgerald wished my profess
t'DD. ,nnai opinion for the guidance of the
umms. VI course, the theory that thew
and pno person was entirely untenable,
on onu nao no difficulty in forming an
No euCH JOlnC marriage to one
nnan would be bigamy for him. It would
enlaii no criminal punishment on the wives.
nor was 1T likely that proceedings would
ever DC had against him under the peculiar
But had to tell them that
u u the question ever came before a court
'hey would surely be decided twins. and
my the one marriage ceremony which nre-
'eded the other would be valid, while the
second one, although 1t might have occurred
minute later, would be invalid, and would
,ossloly subject the husband to prosecu-
ION AT the same time l reminded Fitz.
gerald OF the late Charles O'Connor,s re.
marx when he was askei whether it was
egal a 10 shoot a burglar to death on sight
me law would say hsng you for it.n he
'Aelalmed, "but NJ nablic prosecutor or
uuge or jury woI punish you for il: so
'noot The burglar After the same fash
oh advised Fitzgerald that Millie. Chris
S, :ne prospective husband might be sent to
,.ate na prison for blgamy, but that nobody
ho % ever undertake to do it. However,
" iNe uh-