The Jersey City news., 1902-02-26
TANGLED LIVES.
The Divorce Suits Of Father
Corrigan's Nieces to Come
Up in Newark Today.
MULRY WANTS FREEDOM
So He Must be Rid of One
Sister Before He Tries to
Shake Off the Other.

The matrimonial nlix-up Of the two
nieces Of the late Rev Father Corrigan,
Of Hoboken-Miss Margaret Corrigan and
Mrs. Catherine Kelly, nee corrigan-with
Peter H. Mulry, which created such a
profound sensation a few years ago, will
probably be resurrseted in Newark this
afternoon, when Lawyer James Furey VIII
argue before vice-Chancel1or stevens for
the dismissal Of the divorce suit begun
six years ago by Miss Margaret Corrigans
or Mrs Peter Muiry. as she claims to be,
against her alleged husband.
The action has been on the docket OF
the Chancery Court all these years, but
has never been up for hearing, and on
the grounds that the plaintiff has not
prosecuted Lawyer Furey Will insist that
the suit be dismissed.
The proceedings scheduled for to-day
are preliminary to a further unraveIling
of the strange complications of the case
through another suit for divorce in which
Peter H. Mulry is the plaintiff and Mrs.
Catherine Kelly, the sister of the PLAINTIFF
in the Nother action is the defendant.
Mulry claims that Mrs. Kelly was a
widow when he married her. and that
subsequently she married a man named
De yaueene, who has since died.
The two women are believed to be now
living in Brooklyn, and Mulry has but
lately completed term in State prison,
where he was sent for conducting a dis
orderly house known as the Wrinkle in
this city.
The story of the matrimonial comp1ica-
lions Of the interesting trio, as reeited in
the various bills filed, reads like fiction.
Muiry. it is said. was originally en-
gagged 20 Miss Margaret Corrisan, but
on account of some event in his past life
| they. could find no priest of the church 10
which both belonged who would marry
them.
Afterwards Mulry fell in love with the
sister of his fiance. Catherine who was
/ the widow of man named Kelly. He
/ claims that under the names of John
Hart. Jr., and Libby Post. he and Cath
arine Kelly were married by Justice of
the Peace George H Newkirk. at No. 1ss
Jackson avenue, on September 30. 1856. IN
support Of his statement Mulry has am
davits from the justice and from John
Craig, a witness to the ceremony
AS the story goes Margaret Gorrigan'
did not learn that Mulry had married her
sister until she became persistent in her
| demands that he keep his promise to her.
This. it seems. Mulry was willing to DO
If he could get a divorce from Libby
Post" This, it is said. was agreed TO. but
for various reasons was never accom-
plished.
In the summer of 1891, according to the
/ papers fled in Mulry's suit for divorce
! against Catherine Kelly-Mulry. she met
/ James T. De yaucene. who conducted a
hotel in the Catskills, and was married TO
him in Hoboken on April 20. 1892 Mar
garet Corrigan and Mulry are said TO
have attended the wedding. ct all events
they all took up their abode at the De
vaucene home. No. sos Hicks street,
Brooklyn.
The bewildering story Of marital en-
tanglement first came to light when Mrs
Kelly. or Mulry, or De Vaucane. attempt
ed TO sell some purperty in this city. 1t
is said that Mulry was able for time 70
block these proceedings by reasoa Of bis
relations with the woman, brt finally al
lowed the property to be sold.
This was the condition Of affairs when
Mulry was served with papers in the 6i-
vorce suit Instituted BY Margaret Cor
riean claiming TO be his wife. The bill
of complaint at that time did not give the
date of their marriage nor the name OF
the officiating clergyman or official Muiry
in his answer to the suit stoutly denied
that he was ever married 70 Margares.
His present action, through Lawyer
Furey. is for the purpose Of having this
suit disposed OF so that he can prosecute
his action for divorce against Catharine.