The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-04-23
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OF HERsMARR1AGE FIVE LONG
YEARS
MARRIED WHEN BUT is
She Has Many Relatives in Richmond
And Has Visited Here Many
Times.

Effie Irwin Of Rushville, Indiana,
has many relatives in this city whom
she has frequently visited, and they
in turn have visited her. Miss r.
vim is beautiful young lady, very
attractive and for a time her young
life had tinge Of romance in 1T. The
Cincinnati papers give an account of
her marriage to Frank E Winchester,
a cement dealer, of Cincinnati, six
years ago, and who Immediately af-
ter the marriage ceremony deserted
him at the altar. For six long years
she has kept the secert hidden from
her people. The Cincinnati account
of the affair follows: 49,:
In proceedings before Judge Sam
uel Smith; Frank f. Winchester OBJ
tanned a divorce from the beautiful
Hoosier girl, and once again she is
Fife Irwin =, .:s.s>-.
Winchester. told Judge Smith his
wife deserted him at the altar after
they had eloped to Newport, KY, and
were married. December %, 1898.
He wrote her many letters and
asked her to live with him, but tES
romance had already left the girl, and
she preferred to remain under the
roof of her father, A. B. Irwin, cash
Ter of the Farmers Banking Com
pany, Nashville.
Miss Irwin was but Is years of age
when she came to this city to study
music in 1898. ", r1~.-tl3.. r.
At the same boarding house Win
chester lived. He was many years
/ her senior, but Miss Irwin saw him
through the glamour of romance, and
readily consented to: a secret mar
riage. =. - ..- '~t ~'~%~'s +sf'S%e
AS commentary Of the hangea-
bleness of the feminine mind, it may
be said that as soon as Miss Irwin lost
her identity as a single girl she re-
pented, and fed back to her fathers
roof. .r.
There, after a time, she told him Of
her marriage.
Winchester is we'll spoken Of by
the girls father, who even consented
to act as witness in his behalf, tes-
tifying that his daughter told him
she had no love for her husband Of a
minute.
81 can't tell how the infatuation
began, or even how I happened to
marry him." said Miss Irwin. CT can
recall none of the details of the mar
riage. I only know that after the
ceremony I realized 7 ought not to
have done it,, 1850
Miss Irwin is tall blonde, with
great blue eyes. Her skin. is soft and
fair. and good to look upon.
She is clever pianist and an ex-
pert chauffeur, having owned one of
the first automobiles in the town. She
is considered one of the best-gowned
girls in the city. H.
one was TEL ceflt COuceEuiIS ueI
girlish escapade:
/ ct don't know how it happened.
don't know even who married us, -
said she. IT am almost sure it was
a Methodist minister, thought
Miss Irwin twisted the sleeve of the
green shirt waist she was wearing as
she rocked to and fro in a nervous
way, but her smiles never forgot to
come and the rose tint on her
cheeks grew no deeper as she told the
rest of the story. -: :
"It seems like dream to me, and
most of my friends treat it as huge
joke. It is unfortunate but things
can't always be helped.
81 know that this comes as a ire
mendous surprise to every one. My
youth is my only plea. 1t was an in
fatuation any girl Of II, away from
home influences, might weaken under
know the nncharitable view many
people take Of things, but it can be