The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1905-12-21
WEDDING BELLS WILL NOT RING.
Don Amanda De Cespedys Turns
Out To Be a Married Man.


pedes, Of Costa RIGA, and Miss Bertha
Shrimplin, whiehswas to have been SOL
this evening at eight o'clock
at the home of the promised bride, has
been called off, and as it seems for good
and sufficient reasons.
A telegram was received from a news
paper in bingham. Ills, on Tuesday
which stated that Don Amanda had a
wife and two children, and asking if the
parents desired to be advised further as
to the facts regarding the groom. Mr..
Shrimplin stated that OF course he de-
sired to know all the facts, and in
later message he WAS advised that Don
Amanda came to Effingham in 1900 and
became student in the Illinois college
Of philosophy in that city. The tele-
gram states that he was fayorite with
the girls in that institution OF learning,
and he won the heart and hand OF
young lady who was beautiful and ac-
complished, and also an orphan. After
their marriage they sailed for Costa
Rica, and returned to the states during
the Worlds Fair at ST. Louis, where
Amanda had charge Of the Costa Rican
.eniHbit .-~in the Ineartitnes two-ehilstreRi
had been born to them, and their sepal-
alton followed in ST. Louis. Amanda
took Que of the children, Do Loust BY
y,.i uyith 4, Sxykn l,A "A
Costa lllca, and the mother is now in
Chicago, where she hasa position as
Hello" girl. 1t is also stated in the
message that she was given the custody
vi Violet, the other child, and that the
little girl. is now in Baptist orpha mage
i'll Chicago, and is supported by her
mother.
The truth OF this report was further
confirmed by letter received by Rev.
Thos. Wallace yesterday morning. The
letter was from Mrs. Ada II. kepley,
local president OF the w. Z. L. u. She
had seen :riUtice OF the approaching
marriage in the Des Moines Capital and
wrote to the officiating clergyman to
advise him OF the true facts in the case.
She gives the address OF the former
Wife Of Amanda de Cespedes as 5O5 W.
Congress street, Chicago, Iii. She adds
in the letter if further information is de-
sired it may be obtained from the aban-
doned wife. Her maiden name was
Dora Gilliand.
Because OF these reports the wedding
has been called of. The Record has no
desire to be sensational, and the facts
as commonly reported have been stated
The entire affair is matter OF much
humiliation and regret to the parents
as we'll as to the young lady who allow
ed herself to become infatuated by the
charms, of the foreigner. There are
perhaps some extenuating 'circun-
stances and from his point of view it
might seem that Don Amanda has tried
to act honorably. He did not deny his
marriage, SO he states, to Miss Bertha,
but the parents were not made cogniz-
ant OF the former marriage. The laws
OF his own country are very lax on the
subject of marriage, and only marriages
performed in the Catholic church are
considered binding. Civil marriages
contracted in this country are not con
sidered binding except as q matter OF
honor by the contracting parties. The
would be groom claims he deserted his
wife on the grounds upon which a
divorce could easily have been obtained,
but it appears that no divorce has been
granted.
| Anyway the marriage has been post
poned for an indefinite period, and the
fortunate Of unfortunate termination OF
the affair is a great shock to Miss
Bertha. She is PROSTATE with grief and
is suffering from a severe nervous
shock. MT. Ayr Record.