The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-11-10
PREACHERS BRIDE
LEAVES GROOM and
RETURNS TO HOME
Finding That Her Husband Had Not
Yet Procured His Divorce From
His Former Wife Local Wo-
man Leaves Him at Gin
clnnah Depot and
Returns Here.


s. Considerable interest has been
shown here by the many friends of
Miss Mamie R. Gill, of Forest avenue,
adopted daughter Of Mrs. Judith Rice,
in the recent developments that the
man she married here on last Thurs
day afternoon is technically bigamist
because he has not been finally grant
ed divorce from his first wife. Miss
Gill and Rev. Mr.. Cocks were mar
ried here on Thursday afternoon and
took the O'Clock c. & o. train for
Cincinnati. En- routes to Cincinnati,
, through. a newspaper article, she is
said to have discovered that her hus-
band did not have a divorce from his
first wife and she left him at the Gin
cinnati station only few hours after
the marriage.
In this connection, the Cincinnati
Enquirer says.
| Rev. MIR. Cocks and his second wife
were on train en- route from Mays
Vile to Cincinnati for their honey
moon trip when she said she saw the
account of the divorce proceedings,
which were being held up by Judge
Charles w. Hoffman, pending an in
vestigation Of an alleged difference in
the spelling of the name of the min
lister.
Mrs. Cocks began to cry, she said,
and showed the newspaper account to
Rev. Mr.. Cocks. Immediately after ar
irving in Cincinnati Mrs. Cocks said
she left her husband at the Central
Union Railway Station and went to
the home of friend. Her clothing
she said, was taken on to Rev. Mr..
Cocks home.
Mrs. Cocks was In Maysville yes
terday. During the morning she saw
Attorney ]. @. Martin, Rev. Mr.. Cocks
attorney, who held private interview
with her at the home Of her foster
mother, Mrs. Judith C. Rice, Maysville,
Mrs. Cocks was nervous and depressed
during the afternoon and would see no
one. Her foster mother and several
members Of her family, however, talk
ed freely of her marriage to the min
lister.
The marriage took place last Thurs
day at the Rice home, they said, and a
dinner followed. The marriage Ii
cense. according to Maysville advices,
shows that the word divorced" has
been erased and the word "'widower"
stands. Rev. Mr.. Cocks, 1t Is said, be-
came furious when the wedding party
threw rice on him at the Chesapeake
and Ohio station at Maysvllle, and
hurled his overcoat out of the window
Of the car.
Relatives said Mrs. Cocks No.
would rejoin her husband II his d.
vorce troubles are legally and salts
factorily settled.
Rev. Mr.. Cocks, according to rela-
tives of Mrs. Cocks No. 2, represented
himself to be widower. and she
knew nothing of the pending divorce
case.
. Mrs. Cocks is S8 years old. Rev
Mr.. Cox, 1t is said, is Sc years old, and
has two children, girl, Ruth, Ii
years old, and son, Irwin, 13 years
old. His first wife Is said to be in
Kansas.
Rev. Mr.. Cox and his attorney, ]. Q
Martin, have been summoned to ap.
pear before Judge Hoffman Wednes
: day, to make an effort to straighter
out the tangles developing from hii
suit for divorce. Conflicting names
said to have been used by the minis
ter-Fred Cocks, Fred Con- and F
George Cocks. caused Judge Hoffman
to withhold action on the divorce suit
instituted by the minister last week
until the question raised by the names
could be adjusted. Meanwhile, the
minister. 1t is asserted, complicated
the situation by marrying Miss Gill.
Attorney ]. Q. Martin, In Cincinnati
today stated that Mrs. Cooks No.
would return to her husband wher
the present complications are straight
ened out. The attorney said he die
not know the whereabouts OF hll
fclient,