The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-05
FORCED TO MARRY HIM
Mrs. Grace Ivey Has AVERY
Strange Story to Toll.
SWEET, PLUMP AND q
She Has o Husband Living In Colo
RADIO. and She Wants Her Marriage
to Ivey Annulled-Her Right
Name Not Disclosed.

STdCt IVY NtcttTud
an action in the district court against
Edwin Ivey for the purpose of secur-
ing an annullment of her marriage on
the ground that she had another hus-
band living at the time she married
Ivey. She charges that she was mar
ried the second time without her con-
sent. She claims the marriage was
null and void. yet she uses the name of
the man she married. and carefully
conceals her right name. In the al
legations of the complaint and in the
meagre facts discovered on the outside,
II is a sensational story that sounds
incredible and has the colorings of a
pipe dream. Her attorneys are Don
Ian & Forestell. but from them very lit
tie information could be obtained, and
they shielded the woman. declined to
disclose her identity. or give any names
except the n that appears on the
complaint.
The facts, however. as far as they
could be learned from other sources,
make up the story on the young wo-
mans side. She who appears as Grace
Ivey is a plump and handsome bru-
nette, of about q years. At one tim
or another she has been on the stage.
anu 10 ncT lTltuuS SIT a plttn ldihtu
to hat effect. A few years & she
was married to a man somewhere in
Colorado. They did not get along well
and they agreed to separate. She
came to Butte and made her home
with her married sister. whose name
also is protected. During last July the
young woman went out to Elkhorn, in
Jefferson county, and visited friends
who live or a ranch several miles out
from Elkhorn. She visited there some
time and met there the man Edwin
Ivey, who was a driver on a mail route
between Helena and Elkhorn.
Ivey became infatuated with her and
proposed marriage. She refused him
and told him that she had a husband
living from whom she was not legally
separated. That made no difference to
Ivey and he persisted in his Emporium
tiles. The young woman correspondent
with her husband and received a num-
Der of letters from him while she was
visiting on the ranch at Elkhorn. Ac-
cording to her story, Ivey always
brought the letters to her from the
postofiice and always opened and read
them before he gave them to her. so
that he had full knowledge of the fact
that she had a husband, but still he
wanted to marry her and enlisted the
sympathies of the people on the ranch,
who also urged her to marry Ivey. She
never consented and tried to go away,
but she was prevented from doing so.
Ivey gave up his position as mail car
rier so that he could watch her and
prevent her from going away.
On July 80 he appeared at the house
with a marriage license and a man
whom he Introduced as a preacher.
He told her to get ready to get mar
ried, and she was compelled to go
through the and at its con-
g1HNGf,n ghn fafntnh Shn co ~ thu Ghn
never lived with Ivey as his wife and.
when she recovered from her faint and
shock, she made her escape and came
to Butte to her sister, where she has
since been. living. About two weeks
ago she and her sister first called on
Attorney Forestell and sought his ad-
vice. after relating the story to him.
He told them that the proper way out
of the affair, IL the young woman's
story was correct, was an action for
the annulment of the marriage. They
said they would think about IL, and
yesterday they returned and later in
the day the suit was filed in court.
After alleging the fact that the sec
ond marriage was without her consent
and that Ivey had knowledge OF the
fact that she had another husband liv-
ing, the complaint concludes as follows:
The defendant was fully aware at
the time of the second marriage of all
of said facts and the plaintiff never
consented to said second marriage. but
was compelled. through force and fear
and threats of violence used by defen-
dant. to be present when the said mar
riage ceremony was performed. The
plaintiff and defendant have never
lived together as husband and wife,
but after said marriage the plaintiff
refused and still refuses to do so. The
said marriage ceremony was performed
-. In -
sent, wherefore the plaintiff prays that
the said marriage may be annulled
and that she be forever released and
discharged from any and all obligations
and duties arising from said marriage"
The young woman says Ivey had
threatened her. that she was afraid Of
her life and just couldn't do any
thing else but marry him."
1t is sale she is at present employed
as waitress in a restaurant in Butte.