The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-26
MRS. THAW BRIDE ! OF JACK CLIFFORD
 AT TASTY WEDDING
Pair Journey to Maryland and Ceremony Is Quickly Per
 formed to Catch Train.

E1licott City, Md. May 26-Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was married here at 3:S0 o'clock Wednesday afternoon to Virgil James Montani, son of the late Brig. Gen. Joseph Montani of the Royal Italian Army and nephew of Conte Esmeraldo Enrico Milo, Ital- ian Minister of Marine.
 MT. Montani is better known as Jack Clifford, his professional name for many years. For three seasons he has been the dancing partner of his bride, and it was generally believed he would wed her when her marriage bonds with Harry K. Thaw were sew cred.
 Mrs. Thaw and Clifford, as he pre- fers to be called, arrived in BaIti- m. train. An automobile was waiting and the eleven-Ini1e run was quickly made. Five minutes after their ar rival the marriage license had been obtained and the couple were on their way to the home of the Rev. J. Ed ward Snyder, pastor of the Emery Methodist Episcopal church.
 Mrs. Thaw gave her name as Flor ence Nesbit and said she was thirty one years old. Clifford put thirty one" against his own and gave his birthplace as California He said he informed the clergyman that she was on the stage.
 After assuring himself of the valid ity of the ThaW divorce, MT. Snyder quickly performed the ceremony. as Mrs. Thaw told him they wished to return to New York on the Congress si onaI Limited, which leaves Ba1ti- more at 5:03 o'clock. The witnesses were Edgar Goodman of Baltimore and Van Ness Harwood of New York.
 Well" said the bride Sas she step ped into the automobile, ''this time I married to please myself and not my friends. And that means this mar riage is for love. We are as happy as we can be and we are going to be happier still-if that be possible
 The couple said they would go to Mrs. Clifford's home, No. 23 West Eleventh street, and leave, for Cliff ford's camp in the Adirondacks probably this week.
 Mrs Thaw was married in Mary land because she was unable to obtain a, certified copy of Thaw's divorce decree granted last month. She ap- piled for the certified copy through her attorneys May 4. They were in formed that Judge Cohen of Pitts burgh. who granted the decree, was out of that city.
 Morris, Walker & Allen of Pitts burgh wrote to Mrs. Thaw May Is that, although the Judge had re- turned, the Master har not as is generally done, fixed his fee, and un- til the Judge named it and the fee had been paid. the Judge could not attest a certification.
 ft'There is the possibility of con- siderable delay,'' the attorneys wrote. The Hbellant or his attorneys may not see the necessity for haste, and a great deal of time may elapse before these costs are paid. There is noth- ing to do but wait and watch the record.'
 Mrs. Thaw communicated with off cial in seven States and found a cer- ttfiedN copy was not needed nj Mary land. Then she sent for Clifford and told him to go to Tiffany's and buy a platinum wedding ring. He went post haste.
 MT. Clifford has ridden for the late King Edward as a jockey. He has been cowboy. In the Spanish war he was thrice wounded.
 ''I've loved her since I first saw her." he said. "'I'm going to take some of the load from her shoulders the load she's carried for ten years.''
 Next fall the electric theatre signs will carry the same legend as during the past season, Evelyn Nesbit and Jack Clifford