The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-01-01
WERE welded ANYWAY
Endish Couple Snap Their Fingers in
Face Of Law.
Buy Tickets. Go to South Dakota
Where They Marry.
Lad Montague Divorced Week Ago,
Joins Another Immediately.
Tw, Hearts Are Made One i'm a Free
and Easy State.
Froh Mondays Daily.

Ivo, railroad tickets and a deter,
minatin to we'd without any delay,
formed combination which enabled
Country C. Manifold and Lady Jose.
phine beaumont Montague to snap their
fingersat the Minnesota marriage laws
and ppceed to China as man and wife.
Thepair were refused marriage Ii
cense n st. Paul Thursday, but this did
not discourage them, for they returned
at one to Sioux Falls, S. d., where
Lady Lo9t received her divorce de-
Gee less thalSa week ago, and their mar
rage took Place in the South Dakota
town Saturday afternoon, after which
the couple started for China the same
evening.
Lady Montague, who was until re-
Gently one Of the most prominent So
ciety women of Toronto, was divorced
at Sioux Falls last Tuesday, and on
Thursday, the day before Christmas,
accompanied by Courtney c. Mani
fold, an officer of the British army,
of distinguished appearance, came to st.
Paul Nth the intention of being married.
All plans had been made to have the
wedding solemnized on Christmas eve,
and tie couple were to depart for
China Immediately, but the Minnesota
laws presented an obstacle which made
it necessary for the couple to change
their plas
A marriage license was denied be-
cause Lay Montague had not been di-
vorced sufficient length of time. AT
the time he application was made for
the license here only forty-eight hours
had elapsed since her decress for di-
vorce had been signed by the South
Dakota judgS and the law says divorces
cannot remary in Minnesota within six
months after being divorced.
This law vas something of reve-
lation to LadI Montague and her pros
pective Husband, as they had journeyed
from Sioux Fills to st. Paul for the
express purpos, of being married here.
An Investigation into the marriage
laws of differen states disclosed to the
couple that theycould have been married
in Sioux Falls, md they determined te
return to the own which was gooC
enough to furnisi Lady Montague hel
matrimonial freed, pm and be married
there. The wedding which was quiet
affair, took place at the home of an arts
tocratic private family in Sioux Falls
with whom Lady Montague had made he
home during the few months she resid
ed in Sioux Falls for the purpose of Sc
curing a residence for divorce.
Courtney c. Manifold, the Britis
army officer to whom Lady Manifold wa
married, is her cousin, as was the hus
bend from whom she so recently secure
a divorce. Her matrimonial eXperienc
is said to have been a broad one, he
marriage at Sioux Falls Saturday bein
her third effort in the line of securin
husbands.
Her family is said to have been prom
inent in England, and following her SCI
ond marriage and removal to Canada sh
was much in society. She inherited til
title of lady, and was well known in 81
cial and diplomatic circles in Toront
and other Canadian cities, where sl
resided until last April, when sf
went to Sioux Falls for the purpose
taking advantage of the lax divorce Law
in South Dakota. She is well bred an
talented and was prominent in the Siou
Falls divorce colony.
Courtney c. Manifold, her latest hu
band, is well known in British arm
circles. Only Lady Montague's most L
innate friends were aware that the
ficer was the real cause of her securing
divorce, as he seldom visited her VIII
at Sioux Falls.
Recently he was ordered by the Briti
government to go to China, but he ma
aged to have the trip postponed uni
Lady Montague secured her divorce in
der that they might be wed and 60
China together.