The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
DIVORCE SAVES N|AN
HELD AS B|CAM|sT
Mrs. O'Donnell No. 1 Gets Di-
vorce and Wife No. , Gets
a Marriage License.
Special TO The Tribune.

| Special to The Tribune
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Dee. "A
writ of habeas corpus backed up by q
marriage license prevented Deputy
Sheriff Eddington. of Salt Lake City:
from starting for home this evening
with Charles /. 0 'Donnell of this city
as his prisoner, o 'Donncll being wanted
in Salt Lake TO answer 10 a charge of
| bigamy. O'Donne) was Grst arrested
on request of the Utah officials on Nov.
23, but by a writ Of habeas corpus was
released two days later. He was re-
arrested and hearing on the reQuisitiou
papers caused Acting Governor Allen
| to deny the requisitlon,
Deputy Sheriff Eddington teIcgraphei
to Utah aud bad The defect in the pa
pcrs remcdied and yesterday Governor
Allen signed the papers Eddington
then came here 10 get his prisoner but
things happened rapidly,
Down at Lincoln. Nebraska, divorce
hearing took place yesterday aud
o 'Dounell S wife No. /. who prior to
marriage was Mrs, Kitty Hull Of
Omaha, was granted a decree of di-
vorce, according to Geographic dispatch
es TO y 'Donnell S lawyers. The law
ycrs got hsbcss corpus writ this morn.
ING to prevent their client from being
taken ont without hearing aui Dep
uty Eddipcton Willingly agreed TO wait
till a bearing could be held on Monday.
This afternoon Us the climax TO the
trouble. 0 Dounell and wife No. ., ap-
pearcd at the office OF the clerk of the
court and got marriage license and
were married this evening by a priest
of the Catholic church. Deputy Edding
ton probably Will be thwarted as some
of . 'Deuncll s friends assert the acting
governor promised if the matter be thus
settled he would never sign a rcquisi-
ton paper to send y 'DoDncll from The
state. O Donnell s wife was Ethyl
Pearl Wilson Of this city, daughter of
Mrs. Z. j. Wilson, we'll known aud fair
" well to do here.
O 'Donncl and the woman with whom
ne had been living here rs his wjfo
for two years aud with whom he went
through d marriage ceremony at Salt
Lake City. when not divorced from his |
first wife, went through another mar
rage ceremony this afternoon ut tho |
rectory Of St, Ann s Catholic church.. |
Tho Rev. James MolypcuX, rector of |
the Cathedral, declined tonight TO state
which one OF the priests performed the
ceremony, but said;
''1ou can say the O Donnell we'd
ding ceremony took place here at the
rectory."
There arc but two priests here, Molly
ncux and Hcnnessey ard il is believed
mere that MolyncuX performed the ccrc-
nopy.
The Row Eathcr Molvneux called one
man and said he would ex-
plain tEc attitude OF the Catholic
,hurch in the case. and he said;
I" You understand, of course. the
Catholic church does not recognize d.
vorcc, and marries persons who had
,ecn supposed 10 he married only when
it is discovered the supposed marriage
was invalid. To Illustrate, ii one OF the
,ersops was Il nouCat bolic on if the
CEREMONY had been performed by other
han a Catholic priest VIC marry them
hen only when we have proof positive
he first marriage was invalid. Some
imos atfidarIta arc required,
'No condition could be presumed ,
which would mako it, possible for 4 .
'Gtholie priest to marry a divorced per-
ON,
Father Malypeux intimatcd that the c
irst marriage had to be reasoned out US T
invalid. S