Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-01
MARRIED AFTER DIVORCE.
One Knot Loosed in the Morning, An
 other Tied in the Evening.

other Tied in the Evening.
 Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Hopkins, who was granted divorce yesterday forenoon by Judge Gager i'll the SUI perior court, married Wallace Water man last evening. Seven hours inter vened between the granting of the di- yorce and the performance of the mar riage ceremony. Had Judge Gager asked Mrs Hopkins if she intended marrying again her answer, had she told the truth, would have been in teresting because, it appears, that she had already planned for her union with Waterman. It is an old saying in courts that q woman never obtains a divorce only for some other man. | The whole proceedings are wrapped in elements that indicate Mrs Hopkins | to be an altogether different person | from what she appeared on the wit ness stand. She is quite young wo- man, fair and comedy. She has one | child, Evangelina, aged years. She was employed at the Model laundry on the WateryiIle road, where Water man was also employed. There she was known as Mrs Sprague; Sprague was her ante-nuptial name. It was no secret about the Model laundry of her preference for Waterman It was well l known among their co-workers that soon after she would have procured | her divorce sSe would marry Water man. From ahis it will appear that she had not the slightest doubt her pe- tition would be granted, but this belief may arise from her happy ignorance of court proceedings, and that unqucs- tionably was its source. Even tbe wedding trip was mapped out before hand, and it was understood that the bridegroom was not to return to work until next Monday.
 The circumstances on which her di- yorce petition was founded were told yesterday ill the Democrat. Deser- ton and dislike for work on the part of her husband. She married | Hopkins in BreWsters, N. Y.. and at that time was living i'll Mill Plains, 2 village near by. After two years married life they came to Waterbury to live with her mother and step-fa- ther, whose name is Birk and who lives at B Maple street Hopkins, rather than go to work to support his wife and child suffered himself to be ordered out of the house. That was the last seen of him.
 1t was late in the afternoon when Mrs Hopkins and her husband to be presented themselves in the town clerks office. The records there show that she gave her name as EliZaDteh Hopkins, and that her proposed ven ture in matrimony with Waterman was her first. Her presence in the divorce court that forenoon contra diets this statement, therefore falsi- fies that record. Again, ill her testi- mony on the stand during the hearing of her divorce petition she said her age was 24 years, while i'll her mar riage license it appears to be Fl.
 The marriage is supposed to have been performed by the Rev Dr Parry, but it is not yet known by whom ii was performed, as the return has not been made to the clerks office.
 This is the second time in this city where divorcee went, it may be said straight from the court room to the hymeneal altar. The first instance has the record for rapidity. As in this case, the divorced party was woman At that time the superior court was held in the present city court room in the city hall, and the woman walked straight from the divorce mill so to speak, meeting her husband to be ill the corridor, and went direct to the town clerks office at the other end of the corridor, took a marriage appli cation and in half an hour had again launched herself on the matrimonial sea. The courts do not encourage maria ges brought about in this man ner. They feel as though they were imposed upon, at least, so say law yers, and as it is within their discre ton to withdraw a decree at any time during the term it was given, 1t may happen that some couple will flno themselves in serious quandary some time.