The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-25
i INFANT WHEN MARRIED.
Lar ~ Why YOUNG REGINALD
.gnRY WANTS A DIVORCE.
re Case-Berry Married . Woman
Many Years His S~nior-She Left
usD-His Home Ii In Canada.

sT.s hall baked matrimonial alliance II
Aennah a. Berry. slpo assumed The bur-
n Of o We when Re was s;sli less than
arassen Fears Gil, were zsef0re Judge
racoee yesterday for SHIRT tine. bat or
- 70 serious defects Ia the divorce corr
.sans. aled against the boy husbands wife
ysoreace, 81. case vas not tried ard w.Il
ave 10 cone w again later.
fns complaint IN this suit. which IN
erpoeriv for ts1s annu!u,snt of Ise.rry.6
snrr.xge on the ground OF his infancy at
~ tins ., was contracted. was not made
n him IN fac. bat BY his mother a. his
susrdlan. 1t was prepared two years ago
Ia. was gsDt served or filed at taa: time
nsrry is now % age and resides AZ present
IA Ottawa. Cana<@.- Notwithstanding this
f,r, his lawyer yesterday attempted TO
ostaIrs a decree aanglfng the marriage on
ia original complaint. Deputy Prosecut-
iss Attorney H2rt. aoo was presen; repre-
erreiar the state, ob5ected 10 the COM
.a.ins On tfls ground that Berry had never
x.r,aess il. though there vas no reason why
hs should not being over tGenty-one
ysars @, age. The court sustained the OBJ
,1<x,on, inf mating 10 Berry's lawyer that
=. aefect might =. cured by amendment
sa.,e lawyers believe that no amendment
- be made. that Berry must bring a
,<v suit IN his own name. and that as he
a rox a rsesri-rt.H dent OF the state he will
tsv. NJ legal status in court until he re e
turn OF course. he could bling his action
n Canada.
psrry was at one time quite well known
a, he district OF the city near the east
.rs Of Jackson street, lie for long time
ss.xrsssa she Rainier school and was there
,vsea FOR BIS ambition 10 become 4 great
,soalr player ard for his eccentric con-
auc, a. tines. After leaving school he
ss,i1 kent at his violin ami at Last he
cams a very credltaale performer. and
hnnchea oiit 40 a professional music an.
f,rrishing sweet harmony for all occa-
.sous About this time. In 1895. he be-
sams d~ep.y cnamored with tho young
xor,sp who is now his wife. and in spite
=. ,ha sacf thst she was several years his
ssraor and that his relatives opposed the
ra.eh early and late. they were married.
p.rrv olia ned 4 position as assistant
,,nitar In the Seattle National bank block
"a n xkv IRONS IN that building tho boy
ts,.bsnd and his wife began housekeeping.
gbe honeymoon was hardly III It's last
a,,arter before the TomaIsCe began 10 fade
- 10th sides. and within a Few weeks
sf,sr the marriage Mrs. Berry and her
mother l.ft for Colorado, nos greatly to
Rsrry's SORROW. il IS said.
Tn the ease Of John Rooney Va. Ellen
Rooney Judge Jacobs granted the com
nh,niug witness divorce on the ground
"a abandonment. TIE husbands story was
an ala cne~that of a giddy Young wife
ara q runed home. She abandoned him
a. ne Of shame in Chicago. 7. {.
cAa,. xas a witness for the husband. lie
,als hoa b. had met the young VIE IN
p.ser-a Ell. resort In the smoky clly
- p.a EARNED her that she would no
-, bex s,eD aside. She told hlu she
,e.ssssA she wouldn't =,
So ene ap,earet. 10 contest the case Tor
tfrs defendant,