Arizona republican., 1900-09-16
A MARRIAGE OF CONvENIrNCr.
IT She Stayed Single She Couldn't Go
 to Paris-Now Wants a Divorce.


 Nonnie Knowles Turner has filed a retition in the district supreme court praying that q marriage contract en- tered into on March 7th last between herself and Walter P. Turner. a nephew of Senator Turner. of Washington. he annulied. In many respects the suit Is one of the most remarkable ever brOugbt in the district courts.
 The plaintiff begins her petition by announcing that she is 9 years of age. She came to Washington. she says in 1898, from Xania. Ohio. and until April lsr last held a position in the Dostof- fee department. She was little ac- Guainted, she states, with life and the ways of the world. and being away from her parents she had no one to ad- wise her and correct her youthful CT TOTS of judgment. To her youth and ineXperience and lack of wise coung gal she attributes all her subsequent trou- ble
 During the timn she was employed in the postofIice department, she states in her petition, she conceived a desire to secure an appointment at the hands of the United States commissioner to the Paris exposition. The idea appealed with undue attractiveness to her youth ful fancy and immature judgment and the more she thought of it the more fascinating the project seemed to h7r until the securing of a position and the going to Paris for the exposition be- l came her one ambition and the prin- cipal subject of her thoughts and plans. She used every means at heY. command to bring about a c1nsumma- ticn of her wishes and appealed to all her friends and acquaintances to help ! her
 | In spite of this, however, she says. there seemed little prospect of real ] i7ation of her hopes. The commission CT was disinclined to employ young and unmarried women for service in Paris. l but she was led to believe that Were 1 she married, ic would not be a difficult | matter for her husband to secure an appointment, and he could then take ! her to the French capital to live during 1 the time of the exposition.
 Mrs. Turner then goes on to state l that she had been acquainted with young Turner for several months, but had merely regarded him as an ac- i quaintanc=, and had never though, of marrying him. nor had she reason to suppose that he had any desire to Elar- 1 ry her. She had frequ ntly talked tl him about her desire to go to Paris and had from time to time reported to him her progress or lack of progress. Therefore, when she met him on March last. it was only natural tll- she should fall into conversation with him relative to her plans. Sh= explained the difficulties she had encountered, and jestinsly remarked:
 ''l guess l. will have 10 get married and get the position in my husbands nams."
 Turner, she aIleg5s. immediately de clared that he would be willing to mar ry her for that purpose. at he same time assuring her that the maria g= would be but a temporary affair. and when the purpose for which it was en- tered into was accomplished to ena- ble her to be in Paris for the eXpOsi- tiOn. it could be dissolved.
 On March :. the day following. shs went to Alexandria with Turner, and thsy were married. Immediately af- ter the ceremony. the petitioner states they returned to Washington and went to their s.plra.e homes. IL was explic- itly understood that the pretended mar riage was to be merely a form, and al no time since. sae declares. have they assumed the relations of man and wife