The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-17
SUPPOSED DEAD HUSBAND
RETURNS TO CLAIM WIFE
WHO HAD TIRED OF LIVING
SINGLE IiFE AND MARRiEs
AGAIN.
Unusual DILEMMA happens In Elm
Grove Yesterday - Principal
Parties Seeking Advice

Suppose you married a wife. and
LETT her shortly after your honeymoon
was over. and she tired Of waiting for
you. and believing that you had died
married AGAIN. Suppose. after wait
Ing Tour or i've years. you came TO life
and found that some other mans coat
Was HANGING where your coat ought 20
hanEf suppose you wanted to take
back the object OF your affection Of
younger days. and her second husband
objected. what would you do?
Now that sounds like an enigma.
but Elm Grove n confronted with such
case The following story was told
an intclligencer reporter last night:
About i've years ago Steven Workman
fell In love with and married Maggie
Dennis OF the suburban town. For a
short time only married life was bliss
/ ful. and Steven decided TO lift the
I rodden highway and leave Maggie
alone This he cid.
Maggie waited two or three years.
She lonEed for Steven daily. Just at
the time when her heart was almost
broken she heard that a man had been
killed near Newark. o. She sought
and obtained description OF the man
which fitted exactly TO her Steven.
After wearing the weeds for a time
Maggie decided that she wanted TO
marry again. This she did.
She Married Again.
II The second onslaught OF Maggie's
affections was turned on one Benja-
min smith OF Patterson. adjacent 10
Elm Grove. Maggie and BENJAMIN
got married and settled down to all
the Joys OF welded bliss. Now 20
speak with the novelist. they lived
happily ever afterwards until yester-
day. when something happened that
will probably change the whole course
of their pathway in life
About noon yesterday a tall man.
six feet OF better. came 70 Elm Grove
and asked for Maggie He was di.
reoted where 10 go TO find her. and
went. knocked at the door OF the Smith
domicile. Maggie opened the door.
Imagine her feelings when the face
OF her supposed dead husband doomed
up IN front OF her. One scream was
all Maggie didn't know whether the
/ form was an apparition or real flesh
and blood. SO she tumbled out the back
door.
well Who Are Your"
Steven says 10 Benjamin: Il don't
know who you are. but that woman Is
my wife" Benjamin said TO Steven
i don't know who you are. but that
woman a. my wife" Both men made
a dive for their marriage certificate to
I prove that each claim was bona fide
when 10 each OF them had a license
TO marry the same woman. and a certi-
fioate showing that such marriage had
taken place.
Maggie was called in and made her
/ confession saying that she thought
Steven was dead. Each man DESTROYS
/ OF keeping Maggie. all three decided
TO seek legal advice The trio came
TO Wheeling and consulted a local at
torney. who said that the marriage TO
/ Smith could be easily annulled, but
/ smith refused Then he told them
that friendly divorce suit. which Ben
| Jamin was not 70 fight could elimin-
ate the condition. but BENJAMIN said
there was nothing doing. SO they left.
BENJAMIN and Maggie went home.
steven went back TO Try to discover
a way out OF the difficulty last night.
Z Then the tragedy came near happen.
/ Ing. Maggie said II you'll give me
some pizen I'll settle the whole thing "
. But the men could not AFFORD 70 allow
. the idol Of their dreams 10 depart
from them. Steven says that he will
/ seek other counsel and cndoavor 10
get Magele back. while BENJAMIN says
/ he will nght any such effort
Vow the question u. whose wife Is
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