Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-16

visited the city hail and secured marriage
license for Miss Ann Elizabeth Patterson
twentythree years old, and Leon Gaines
Martin, thirty-seven years old. The
license stated further that cIch of the con-
tracing parties had been previously mar
ried and divorced. The name of the min
lister given in the license was the Rev.
George Fiske Dudley, who later performed
the ceremony.
to induce Rev. NJ. Ross F'ishburn to per
form the ceremony. 1t explained to
DR.. Fishburn that the prospective bride
and groom had been previously married and
divorced and the suggestion made that the
usual objections to the marriage of divorced
persons should not prevail DR.. Ffshburn
refused to perform the ceremony, however,
on the ground that he had recently refused
to marry another couple where there had
been considerable notoriety involved. and
could not make an exception in the present
instance.
When the circumstances of the case were
explained to Mr.. Dudley, without the names
of the participants being mentioned, he
said he should be happy to perform care-
mony involving such conditions and he
held to this view after the Situa ton had
been explained and he had been told that
Mr.. Martin and Miss Patterson were the
divorced persons who desired to be re-
united.
Incident of the Ceremony.
After DIR. Dudley had pronounced the
couple man and wife he congratulated
them warmly and talked seriously to them
of the relations that they had resumed. At
the conclusion of the ceremony Martin
threw his arms around his wife's neck and
said in voice husky with emotion:
You are mine once again, and no one
shall take you from ne.
No" she replied. and this is the happi-
est day of my Fife.
Then NJ and Mrs. Patterson interposed
and there We're general congratulations,
kisses and tears.
The wedding was extremely quiet land
was arranged extremely short notice,
although it was known that such reunion
probably a matter of the near future.
At 100 o'clock last night Mr.. Martin and
Miss Patterson appeared at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson, at 1902 Howard
avenue, Mt. Pleasant, and announced that
they had returned home to be married. 1t
has long been the desire of Mr.. and Mrs.
Patterson that such a step should be taken,
and preparations for the wedding were i'm
mediately begun.
Father Gives Bride Away.
Mr. Patterson gave the bride away, and
Mr.. Charles Patterson acted as best man.
Dr. Dudley, the officia ting clergyman, re-
manned after the ceremony and made one
Of the party at the wedding breakfast.
Miss Patterson was attired in dark blue
etamine over green silk with hat to match.
Her only attendant was little Helen Low
ell, her thirteen year-old niece, who was
dressed entirely in white and carried bas-
ket OF pink roses.
Mr.. McCurdy, the manager of Cambridge
Court, is Il close personal friend of both Mr..
and Mrs. Martin. and has has said all along
that he was bending every effort to effect a
reconc- liation. 1t was through him and the
Patterson family that Nan was at last per-
suaded to look with favor upon her ex-
husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin were first married
five years ago in Baltimore. 1t was run
away match, as the girl fled from a board
inS school in this city. when only seventeen
years old.
She went to lew York to live and there
fell in with theatrical people and went on
the stage Two years later she received her
decree of divorce from Martin in San Fran
cisco. There she met Caesar Young, the
bookmaker, and the couple travelled about
together until the tragedy in the hanson
cab in New York.
Upon Miss Patterson's incarceration in the
Tombs her former husband appeared and
was very attentive to her during her long
confinement
Upon her release from the Tombs he wrote
or telegraphed her every day and each mes
sage was request that she remarry him.
Before his first marriage to Nan Patter-
son Martin employed in the Pennsyl-
vania railroad offices here and later served
the West Shore. His mother Is wealthy
San Francisco woman, and one of his broth.
ers, Bert Martin. holds seat on the stock
exchange of that city.