Imperial Valley press., 1921-09-06
VALLEY GIRL
WEOS JUST
One: AFTER
ANOTHER
Five Times Married She Is
Seeking Divorce That She
May Try Sixth Venture,
Maybe.

Mrs. Carrie Mabel Withrow is An
Imperial Valley young women WIG
owns up to "a years of age, ye she
has been married five times anu is d, :
ing husband No. for divorce, IL or
der, perhaps, that she may venture en-
sixth voyage across the matrimonial
seas.
Starting as youthful protege,
Mrs. Withrow, was married to one
man after another until 1914, then
she married Mr.. Withrow. But seven
years after she asked for dlYorce,
and should she sunstantiate the charg-
es in her complaint, she will, in SS..l
probability, receive it.
Mrs. WithroV's marriages in .,rial
form appear thus:
Episode one-Married to w. +. Lor-
Colton at the age Of y years.
The marriage was later annulled.
Episode two.-Married to Cecil
Leonard in Missouri at the age of 10.
This marriage too, was annulled.
Episode three-Married to Fred Ut
berg at Santa Paula at the age of II,
divorced
Episode four-Married to Harry
Withrcw, at the age of 1S in Goldfeld,
New
Episode fve.-Remarried to Harry
Withrow under the laws of this STATE
IN Los Angeles. Divorce action now
pending.
Mrs. Withrow's plunge into the ro-
nance was as spectacular as her mari
tai career. When she was but II yea-s
old she was walking along the banks
OF an irrigation canal near Heber in
a pair of overalls. Along came Mr..
Withrow. She .slmped into the canal
to hide her attire and Withrow jumped
in to rescue her. She swan under
water for a distance of 20 feet and
emerged at the bank, much to the sur
prise of her future husband.
According to the story told by the
young woman at the time of her mar
rlage in 1914 she and Mr.. Withrow
planned to elope to Mexicali to be mar
ried. But they didn't. as her father
and mother discovered the plan and
sent their small daughter to Cotton.
There she met Mr.. Lorentsen and he
married the 12-year old maid. The
girls parents had the marriage an
nulled. The marriage to Mr.. Leonard
in Missouri took place four years later
and this too was annulled after the
unsympathetic parents protested.
IN h.o Z .. I L
she married Mr.. Utberg at San.e
Paula, she left him and secured di-
vorce. Then Ihe went to Sim Fran
cisco, she says, and from there wired
to Mr.. Withrow that she was free and
still loved him. The man who had
swan after her took her to Nevada and
they were married. Then they came
to this state and were again married
in Los Angeles.
After her fourth marriage Mrs.
Withrow gave much advice to girls in
which she devoted much time and en-
ergy to the discussion of real love
She said that every girl should marry
a man much older than herself, one
that had seen the world and was will
ing to settle down with one woman.
Mr. .Withrow at the time of the mar
riage, was Al years of age, and she
said at the time that che was consid-
cred out of the matrimonial market"
and therefore presumably safe.
But seemingly everything did not
run according to schedule and the mat
rimonial bark tipped over, for ths di-
vorce action is recorded, as are count
less others in the court house. in the
cryptic words, cruelty, threats to kill
and desertion," Which is no way for
the romance Of five times welded
girl to end.