The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-26
RENO RING
MAKES
F FARCE OF
MARRIAGE
Washington Salesman Tells
Second Discarded Mate He
Can Wed 20 " He Chooses
BY HARVEY L. COBB.

Copyright is.i. by The washinstoa
. Times Company
"Tu get the kind of soifs I want,
u haze to marry tscsnty sooDen.
k'to,0 hoaO to shake soomen that you
don't sodnt, and Dhsrs to shake EN-"
As. evidence Of his sincerity to
marry twenty women, Charles r.
Littiehales, a jewelry salesman,
employed by one of Washington's
most prominent jewelry concerns,
shook" two wives, and. according
to one of the shaken spouses, had
married third, all in six months.
Littlehales was aided in his am
bitton to outclass Brigham Young
with the facilities and connections
afforded by Alexandria's divorce
ring, to shake 'em while you wait"
Littlehales' Reno Of the East
romance, were it shown on the
silver sheet Of The Little Thimble
Theater, would depict q drama of
tragedy and comedy which could
be staged in no place in the United
States except In Alexandria, Va.
Longer at Reno.
Even in blase Reno, the two divorces
would have taken six months each, or
q full twelve months. NJ.
Charles Henry Smith, a member of
the Virginia Assembly, representing
the Alexandria district, and one OF
Little Reno's most successful divorce
lawyers. probably sitting closer to the
throne occupied by Budwesky & Davis
than any other prince of the court,
played the stellar role Of director in
the three-reel melodrama.
1t was to Smith that Littlehales, the
dramas hero, looked for his cues,
when to change his place of abode, as
he fitted from mate to mate.
And the director was busy, for the
records show that Littlehales, with
the aid and assistance of his director
lawyer, put pep into his drama of
tragedy and comedy as he went from
wife to wife.
Speed Record.
The flickering film of the Thimble
Theater would show that Littlehales
was married on January s, 1920; lived
with his wife four weeks; divorced her
on February 13, 1920; married again
on April Z, 1920; divorced again In
August, and, according to Mrs. Little.
hales the second, has married his third
wife.
Reel number two shows, accord.
Mrs. Helen Reed Littlehales, her
tickle husband lived with her three
days after the divorce was granted
by Judge Moncure, Of the Alexandria
divorce court.
ION August IL, he broke the news
to me, firmly but gently" the dis
carded spouse declared.
"Good-by and good luck" my hus-
band told me as he left on that date.
"Ive been divorced from you, and
I'm going to marry twenty women
II I have to, to get the Kind OF
wife ] want"
She Is Puzzled.
Mrs. Littlehales, the second, was
In uuandary as TO whether or not
Led was still married to her dashing
bAn brummel, or whether she had
eSey been married.
s'fuN told, since all this happened"
ske said, "by some, that as Mr.. Little
hales' ttrst divorce was probably not
legal, that / was never married to
him. Others tell me i still am his
wife: but I certainly don't know just
what to think" she said, a bit de-
jected.
How about it9" she asked The
Times reporter, who told her Of some
of the things that the investigation
had shown. Am I married2 Am !
single, or was I ever married?"
The writer didn't know. and frank
~ told her so.
ANYWAY" she optimistically con-