The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-28

officer.
'How long can I have?"
"Use your discretion"
Which meant five days-since the ship
was to sail on the fifth day. And so
they were married in the afternoon of
April IL, 1918, at the Municipal Building
in New York, with Mrs. Fontaine stand
ing by and giving her wedding ring to
Adair to slip on Evans finger.
And then comes this short, but very
important statement in Adair's sworn
affidavit:
after we were married, we lived at
the Hotel des Artistes''
This was precisely the whole question
involved in the appeal. to the court for
an annulment.
If duly welded couple take up life
actually as man and wife-then the mat
rimonial knot is usually united by
divorce. But if man and woman are
duly married and one or the other of the
couple Immediately jumps on steamboat
and goes away and the pair have been
husband and wife only in name-then the
marriage can be cancelled by an annu1-
ment and no charges of any unpleasant
nature need be made.
Therefore, since Evan did not find it
convenient to her plans to institute a
divorce proceeding in New York. where
either her name or young Adair's name
would necessarily have to be furnished,
she turned to the alternative of an annul-
ment. But her annulment proceeding
was based on the assertion that she had
never lived with Adair as his wife-left
him and hadn't seen him since the after
noon of the wedding ceremony.
Mr.. Adair swore that after they were
married they lived at the Hotel des
Artistes. 1t therefore becomes interesting
to see what Evan and her devoted mother
swore in their testimony in the annulment
suit as to this. In her testimony, the
Fontaine woman said:
eve went out to dinner (after the
wedding) and while we were there
Sterling got 20 drinking pretty much. l
didn't drink anything, but he had some
champagne and he got to talking and
laughing and getting rather boisterous
and all of sudden he said: We'll, hope
this will turn out better than my last one
did, and said, What do you mean?'
"'You know, he said, 4 have been
married before, once; it was long ago,
and it didn't amount to anything, but |
was married down in Houston, Texas
az never would have married you,' |
said, IF | had thought it had been any
thing like that He told me he had got
ten drunk once and married her"
"My mother said, Come on Evan; you
have made a mistake. This cannot go
on" Evan continued, and she took me
home"
you never lived with him." Lawyer
Firestone evans lawyer asked.
A.-No.
Q.-And never lived with him as a
wife?
A.-No.
O. (By the court)-You never saw him
again after that day?
A.-No.
And this very definite testimony of the
Fontaine woman was thoroughly backed
up by similar testimony from her dear
mamma.
But to go on with young Adairs inter
estng affidavit.
Il seems that five days after his we'd
ding, and after they had enjoyed five days
of matrimonial bliss as bride and bride
groom at the jolly Hotel des Artistes. the
young husband sailed on the L. S. S.
Tenadores. About two months later
Adair returned on his ship and the vessel
put in at Norfolk for few hours
"At four the next morning." Adair's
affidavit continues, 81 received a telegram
from the Bureau of Navigation, that nv
wife was in a critical condition, was diving,
and that l must see her at once, as her
recovery depended upon it,
1t was terrible predicament for the