The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-11-17
TO WE'D IN JERSEY Y
DR.. James M. Ludden and
Mrs. Lille Winston Sc
cured Licenses Yes
terday.
TRUE LOVES ROUGH ROAD
This Couple Has Already
Been Thrice United-.The
Trials and Tribula-
tions.

DR.. James NJ Ludden of No. 233 West
One Hundred and Twentieth street, New
York, and Mrs. Lille Winston. whose
address happens to be the same, came
over to this city Monday and each Sc
cured a marriage license, as required by
law, of non-residents, and unless some
thing happens to prevent it they will
be married in this State the day after
tomorrow, or five days after securing
their licenses-that is, if they want to.
They have already Deen married three
times, and have been trying hard to get
married off and on for the fourth time
ever since 1897. Mrs. Winston'si maiden
name was Churchill. Sixteen years ago
she divorced her frst husband, whose
name was James NJ. aPtriek, and in 1890
welded Walker Winston, by whom she
had daughter, now twelve years old.
Not long after the birth of the child,
Mr.. and Mrs. Winston disagreed and
separated, Mrs. Winston being allowed
to retain possession of the child. In 1896
she went to Oklahoma, stayed there six
months, as the law reuired, and applied
for and obtained a. divorce from Win
ston Returning to New York in October
1897, one year to q month after she had
divorced her second husband. she married
DR.. Ludden. ST
Winston was infuriated over the COM
bination Of an Oklahoma divorce and a
New York marriage. He refused to rec
ognize either one and not long after
Mrs. Winston had become Mrs. Ludden
IN New York, he sued the lady for di-
voree. naming Dr.-Ludden as the CO..
respondent. Mrs. Ludden defended the
suit, setting up the Oklahoma divorce.
as well as putting in counter charge of
infdelity against Winston.
She proved her charges against Wins
ton, but the court refused to recognize
the validity of the Oklahoma divorce.
Nothing daunted DR.. and Mrs. Ludden
promptly established residence in this
city, having been advised that the Jersey
courts would recognize an Oklahoma d.
vorce. But to make assurance doubly
sure, the doctor and his wife decided to
have a common law marriage all by
themselves. They set. In parlor one
evening after dinner and asked each 9th
er if they would marry each other. Both
replied in the affirmative and they agreed
to live with each other as man and wife.
nut the irrepressible Winston bobbed up
again. He heard about the common law
marriage, sued DIR. Ludden for alternating
his wife's affections and then Instituted
habeas corpus proceedings in this state
to get possession of his daughter. alleging
that Mrs Ludden of Mrs. Winston, was
not proper person to bring up child.
Another move on the part aof DIR. and
Mrs. Ludden was thus made necessary,
and they came overe here and were mar
ried by Justice of thePeace Weed. When
the case came before Vice-C Chancellor
Stevens he, too, refused to recognize the
Oklahoma divorce, holding that Mr.. and
Mrs. Winston were stili man and wife
and that Mrs. Winston's (as she then
became) three marriages to DR.. Ludden
were void.
Mrs. Winston continued to be Mrs.
Ludden in spite of all the courts until
October II of this year, when Supreme
Court Justice Cochrane in Troy. N. Y,
divorced her from Winston. Now she
and the Doctor can marry in this state.