Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-12
ILL LUCK OF A BRIDE.
Owing to the Circumstances She VIII Ha,
Difficulty to Prove Her Marriage.

Owing to the Circumstances She VIII Have
Difficulty to Prove Her Marriage.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ELKroS, Nd, April IA case that is ex-
citing great deal Of interest in this county
will come to trial tomorrow at the Sussex
county court at Georgetown, Del. The fair
name Of the daughter of one of Delaware's old
est and weli-known families, who claims to be
married to q well-known young man of the
same county, who denies the marriage, is at
stake.
The participants are J. H. Coates, son o a
well-known farmer, who resides near Bridge
vile. and Miss Leila Farrow, daughter OF a
neighboring farmer. Miss Farrow asserts tina
on Sunday evening. Jnne IA last, she was mar
ried to Coates at the NJ. E. parsonage in Sea-
ford by the Rev. X. C. Jones. Mr.. Coates re-
the parents Of both, though Coates on several
occasions introduced the young lady as his
wife. ....
They visited Dover. and while there be be.
began treating his wife in a way that led her to
believe that he intended to desert her. At one
time when she told him that she was going to
publish the marriage he threatened, she saws
to kill her, and to intimidate her he pointed a
revolver at her head and said he would shoot
her anyway. Becoming frightened she told
her parents, and they Immediately had the
marriage published in Seaford paper. In
the same paper the following week Coates pub
lished q card denying the marriage
1t was at this period that the young wife and
her friends took steps to prove the marriage.
but here they encountered train of peculiar
obstacles The marriage occurred on Sunday
evening, June IA, and it is we'll known that on
Monday, June Is, the Rev. II. G. Jones was
seized With nervous prostration, which for a
time unbalanced his mind. Being taken to
Philadelphia for treatment he recovered and
in fow weeks came to Elkton where he was
married to Miss Maggie Hill eldest daughter
Of Rev. Chas. Hill of the EIkton charge and at
one time presiding elder of the Wilmington
district.
While on his wedding tour he became yio-
lently insane, and was taken to an insane asylum
at Clifton Springs, N. Y. He resigned his
charge at the last session OF the conference.
and is now with his brother in Indiana.
When the disowned alleged wife of Coates
tried TO secure the Rev. X. c. Jones' evidence
as to her marriage she found it impossible.
She remembered that he had taken q
memorandum Of 1t and the Rev. R. X. Stephen
son, who had taken the pulpit Of the late Rev.
Jones, was induced to make an investigation
among the latter's effects in hopes Of finding
any evidence that he might have kept Of the
performing OF the marriage ceremony.
The desk Of the demented minister was dulv
opened and there, lying among a number Of
other papers, wac the marriage license, since
shown to have been forged, and the following
note Of the marriage, June II, 1892:
]. Henry Coates Of Bridgeville. aged twenty
one, to Leila FaFrow Of Bridgeville, aged eigh-
''f Il i. with nj. tina. tn. young lad, vii, 20
into court TOMORROW TO fight for her GOOD name
and social position.