The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-29
SIGHED
STosE|E
PARIS.
Miss Knowles Thought by Mar
yIng She Gould Do So but
Was Disappointed.

Washington. Aug. 2s.-The young
woman, then vonnie Knowles. who last
March married Walter p. Turner. a
nephew OF Senator Turner OF Washing
ton. because she believed that by so
doing she would be able TO attend the
Paris Exposition. brought suit in the SUI
prenre court of the district OF Columbia.
yesterday. for divorce.
In her prayer to the court. she says
that. being very young woman, and
having led a secluded life i'm small
town in the shelter OF her parents
home. she was unacqusinted with the
world and It's ways. anu that, being In
a large measure .gnorant and thought
less OF the gravity OF the marriage re-
lation. she entered into wedlock without
rejecting upon its seriousness
Mrs. Turner says her home was in
xenia, o., and that she is twenty-five
years OF age.
Two years ago she declares. she came
from her rural home to Washington. and
until April 1, last was clerk in the
postoffice department
Life and the ways OF the world were
new 10 her. she says. and being away
from her parents she had no one TO ad-
wise her and correct her youthful errors
OF judgment.
She had heard much OF Paris and it's
delights and longed to 20 there, and
she finally conceived the project OF se-
curing an appointment from the United
States commissioper TO the Exposition.
The idea. she says, appealed with undue
attractiveness 10 her youthful fancy and
immature Judgment and the more she
thought of II the more attractive the
project seemed to hcr
1t became the one ambition of her life,
and the principal subject OF her thoughts
and plans.
She used all the means at her command
and appealed to all her friends to help
her. but met only with encouragement
The United States Commissioner was un-
willing to employ young and unmarried
women for service In Paris.
She was given TO understand, however,
that IL she were married II would not be
difficult for her husband to secure a
plaeesaad he could then take her TO Paris
20 live during the Exposition.
y She had known young Turner for sew
seral months she says. but had regarded
him merely as an acquaintance, with
never a thought OF marriage.
So far as she knew. he had no desire to
marry her. She met him on March 8 last
and told him OF her troubles. remarking
that she guessed she would have to get
married and secure the place for her hus-
band. ~
Thereupon, she declares. Turner volun-
teered to marry her. explaining that
there would be no necessity for their as
suming conjugaI relations. and that when
their visit to Paris was ended the marital
bonds could be dissolved.
She says that at first she would not
consent TO such a marriage, but her igno-
rance having led her TO accept Turner's
representations as true, and desiring
above all things else to go to Paris she
finally agreed.
The next day they were married in Al
exandria. Va. by the Rev. DIR. Revelles,
Methodist Episcopal minister. Immedi-
ately after the ceremony they returned TO
Washington and went TO their separate
homes. and at no time since she declares,
have they assumed the relations OF man
and wife.
Acting upon the advice Of friends, who
told her II was out OF the question for
them TO go abroad and maintain the for
NAL relations they had agreed upon. she
says she gave up the idea of visiting
Paris.
As the reasons that led her into be-
coming Turner's wife no longer exist she
asks that the marriage contract be de-
clared void. .tt