The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-18
A RUNAWAY MATCH.
1t Included a Number of Marri-
age Ceremonies
TO SATISFY A MOTHERS IDEA
Concerning the Sanetity of the Marital Re.
latiOn-Love in England, Residence in
France, Death In America.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dlspatch.1
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE death in a
New York hospital last Wednesday night
OF Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hynes, recalls
romance. Few there are who have not
heard of the famous Hynes' will ase
which lasted almost generation In the SUI
preme and common pleas courts of New
York. The woman who died at the hospital
Wednesday was defendant in that great
suit
In the year 1871 there sojourned In Lon
don, England, an American named William
Rose Hynes. Ha was a handsome, gay,
young fellow of thirty, travelling for pleas
ure. His father was wealthy ST. Louis
man. Young Hynes was doing Europe
when he met Mary Elizabeth Miles. Miss
Miles at the time was living with her par
ents IN one of the suburbs of London. She
was lovely girl of the robust, rosy
checked, bright-eyed type. The young
couple soon discovered they loved each
other, but they also found there
was a barrier to their union.
Hynes was an agnostic and Mary's
parents vigorously opposed the mtach.
Finally, however, the loving pair
ran away and got the registrar of
London to tie the nuptial knot Then they
crossed over to France and spent happy
fortnight. The bride had written home
for forgiveness but her parents were OBJ
durate. They were English dissenters;
they bewailed her marriage with one who
was not Christian and were Mortified by
her marriage by the registrar.
! MIR. Hynes, to comfort his wife, brought
| her before the mayor of Paris and thew
| married AGAIN Whon no for.
America, however, the young wife re-
| celved letters from England in which her
parents informed her that they still feft
scandilized at her secular marriage and
that no ceremony would be considered
worthy attention by the recording angel
unless performed by Wesleyan Metho-
dist preacher.
Mrs. Hynes was deeply impressed with
the Importance OF doing as her mother told
her. During the long sea voyage there was
on board the vessel a minister of the kind
approved by Mrs. Hynes' mother and ne
married the distressed young couple again.
After living happily with his wife in New
York for three years MIR. Hynes died, and
when his will was opened it was found the
$3.50, OOO in real estate and personal prop
erty of which he was possessed had been
all left to his wife, who by this time had
borne two children to him.
To the funeral obsequies of the rich man
there came two mourners from distance
Mrs. J. McCreery, of ST. Louis, wild
owed sister Of the deceased, and Edward j.
Cay, OF New Orleans, a widower brother
IN Law, with two children. They filed a
claim to all the property, real and personal,
of deceased, and proceeded to conteet the
will as next of kin, alleging that undue in
fiuence had been used &c make the dying
man sign his wealth away to the woman
, who, they declared, was legally not his
wife.
Then began litigation that ragged four
teen years. In none of the three marriages
: of Mrs. Hynes was a le6 loci cOi!tractts
established; that is, all the requirements o1
the law were not complied with in any one
, instance. But, on the other hand, Mrs.
Hynes' counsel summoned many witnesses
. to prove that the young couple acted in
good faith and that they lived for three
years together as man and wife; that
! Hynes always acknowledged Mary Eliza
! beth Mules as his wife, and he addressed
! many endearing letters to her in which be
L invariably called her his wife. At length
the litigation ended in a complete victory
= for Mrs. Hynes. She retained all hel
S250,000 and the contestants had to pay th'
costs.
On Monday last the doors of the New
York hospital opened to admit to one of it
n luxurious private rooms wealthy woman
q for whom dangerous surgical operation
was necessary. The operation was per
:. formed on Wednesday, afternoon and dealt
p followed in few hours. Mrs Hynes ha,
. died at the age of AZ years, still yer,
handsome womsn. The money and prop
erty of Mrs. Hynes are all left to her chill
dren. 1t is worth more than two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars now, because o
g the enhanced value of real estate in New
IS York. The children own large tracts O
J land in Kentucky and Tennessee.