The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-06
MARRIED A WOMAN
Annie Hindle's Eccentric Ex-
perienceS.
TWICE MARRIED TO HER OWN SEX
she Was Male ImpersOnatoru an Has
Twice Been Husband and
Twice Wife.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch.l
NEW York. July 5.-All the variety
actors on the rialto had something to talk
about today. They had heard that Annie
Hindle. the celebrated male impersona-
tor, " had married again, and shat her mar
rage was as strange in its main feature as
If it had been the plot of a weird novel of
the latter day period. In fact. Miss
Hindle, had supplied more than the usual
basis for the unique story, because. for the
second time in her life. she had gone and
married woman. The affair has been
kept quiet, but the details have leaked out,
as theatrical stories generally do.
On Sunday, June 26. in Troy, Miss Annie
Hindle became, not the wife, but the law
ful husband Of Miss Louise Spangehl who
lives In Troy and is not on the stage The
ceremony was performed in the utmost
good faith by Rev. @. G. Baldwin and
there is no reason to dispute his assertion
that at the time OF the wedding he believed
Miss Hindle to be man. She had been
PERFORMING AT TROY BEER GARDEN
And her nightly triumph was achieved
ID her male impersonations.
In this act she wears mems clothing,
smokes cigars and otherwise conducts her
self in the manner of the sterner sex.
The oddity of her recent marriage is in
creased by the fact that Miss Hindle has
three times been married. Once she WAS
bride, twice she has been the groom.
Once she had q husband, twice she had q
wife. Once she was a widow, once she
was widower, now she has husband
again.
Only last December Annie Eiindle buried
her first wife, on the Jersey City heights.
One cold December day there was held q
funeral which, in one respect, presented as
strange spectacle as is often witnessed.
Annie Hindle at that time was the chief
mourner al the funeral of her first wife,
Annie Ryan. She had married Annie Ryan
in the summer of 1886, and, as in the Troy
affair, the strange wedding was
SANCTIONED BY THE BLESSING OF A MINISTER
of the gospel When Annie Ryan died and
her husband, Annie Hindle buried ner.
Miss Hindle WAS apparently bowed in g ief
and her declaration that sne mad lost her
best friend on earth was in good faith ac-
cepted by the few friends assembled as the
dead woman's bier. They Will be amazed
to hear that within six months Annie Hin
die has found new wife. Miss Hindle in
measure deceived the Troy minister who
made her the wife OF Louise Spangehi. She
told him that this was her second marriage
ana that her name was Charies Edwin
Hindle. When Annie Hlndle was years
old the woman who Adopted her and gave
her protege her own name, put her on the
stage in the pottery district of Herlford-
shire in England. AS she grew up and
Travelled to London she en- arged her roper
toire. One day half in jest
SHE prT on MA>5s roe1trarr
and sang roilicking dit,y about wine and
women. 4 manager who listened to her
saw new field open 10 her. In Week
Annie Hin0le was male lnpersonator"
and all London was talking about the won
derful and minute accuracy OF her mimiccN
About 1867 she came 10 New York TO tri-
umph here as she triumpned in London.
Annie Hindle was tue hrst out-and-out
male impersonator the New York stage
had ever seen. 1t Is fact the dashing
singer was the recipient of as many
'mash'' notes as pro0ably ever went 10 a
stage favorite in TINS country. Once she
compared notes with r. j. Montague. that
careiessly handsome actor, at whose shrine
so many silly women hau worsniped; but
Hindie's admirers lar out pumbered his,
and they were all women, strange as that
may seem.
About this time Charley Vivian, an Eng
lish comique, was traveisng through
Americs. lie was a clever fellow OF the
Lingard type. line singer, u dashlng
dresser and general swell
HE FELL IL LOVE WITH ANNIE HINDLE,
who reciprocated his affection, and in the
fall of 1868 they were married by PhiIz-
delphla minister. They started ct once for
the Pacific coast, as happy, apparently, as
a pair of turtle doves; yet at Denver q lit
Ia intn ~ a
They never met again. He told his friends
that
THEIR HONEYMOON LASTED ONE NIGHT.
Hindle has since said that be did not tell
the truth. HE lived with me-" she de-
clsres, rather bitterly. several months.
Long enough to black both my eyes and
otherwise mark me; yet was good and
true wife to him"
Vivian did not get divorce. He had no
cause. HindIe did not seek one, She was
free enough, 80 they Travelled apart, both
in their own way, busy enough, yet un-
happy; and in March, 1880, Vivian died in
Leadville.
Hindle's next romance camc six years
later. In all her travels she had carried a
'.dresser.n In the summer of 1886 her
dresser was a pretty little brunette of
twenty five. a quiet. demure girl, who
made friends wherever she went. One
night sin June, 1886, Annie Hindle and
Annie Ryan left Grand Rapids, Mich. They
drove to the Barnard house, and in room
1871, minister of the gospel, the Rev. E.
H Brooks, awaited the couple. There was
as best man, jolly Gilbert Saroney, female
but there was no brides
maid. At 10 o'clock Mr. Brooks performed
the marriage ceremony and solemnly
ANNIE HINDLE THE HUSBAND OF
ANNIE RYAN.
The couple lived together happily five
years, occupying pleasant home on Jersey
Heights. They were respected by their
neighbors it appears, and they were well
come at all the social gatherings in the
vicinity OF their home. Miss Hindle did
not re-appear on the stage until some
months after her wife's death. Then she
accepted several engagements, where she
met Miss Spangehl, whom she has just
married.