Evening star., 1948-12-22
Divorce
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| tCOntl0ueO from FlISI rage
Immediately and I'VE will have big
time on our H. M"
Margaret said H. M" meant "our
honeymoon"
! She testified that Chief Garrett
drove her to Ellicott City, Md, on
May 4, 1887, and they were married
in the Lutheran Church there that
day. Her black eyes flashed incig-
nantly at her husband as she denied
his contention that he was intoxi-
Gated that day and did not know
what he was doing.
She said he drove the automobile
to and from Ellicott City; that she
did not see him take drink, and
added: Il have never seen him in
toXicatcd in my life
The suit of the Navy petty officer
to annul his marriage to Margaret is
now in its third day. So far testi-
mony has concerned three marriages
to three different women.
! One of them Blond Ruth pre-
ceeded the brunette Mrs. Garrett to
the stand yesterday to testify that
her love for her husband remains
unshaken by revelations Of his un-
faithfulness as the story of his mar
riages is revealed.
When Margaret was heard, how
ever, she told the court how shocked
she was in 1896 when Chief Garrett
with whom she had been living as
Mrs. Garrett for three years, told
her he had just obtained divorce
from Mrs. Nanette Garrett. his first
and wife of whom she had never
heard
Chief CARROTS lawyers contend
that the marriage to Ruth was be-
fore his divorce from the first wife
Nannette, became final.
He had always held himself out
as single" Margaret said primly
He told me he knew I was che
kind of person who would never
go out with a married man"
Met at Glen Echo.
She was only 18. Margaret said
when she first met my husband
at a dance at Glen Echo in the
summer of 1882. and soon they
we're dating every night. When
she became pregnant in 1888, she
testified. she told Chief Garrett.
He said to tell my godmother
we had been secretly married in
/ Annapolis on April %, 1888. and
if any one asked to see our license
to tell them it had to be sent to
the Navy for their records and We
would get it back later" she teSti-
/ fed.
Their daughter was born on
/ March 21, 1884. Margaret testified,
and her family and all of her
! friends knew Laurence as her hus-
band. She continued to ask him to
go through a religious ceremony
with her, but he said his parents
home had burned down in the South
and he had underwritten a moftg-
age for them, she testified. The
mortgage would be paid off in 1884,
he told her, she said, and then they
would be married.
But then he always told me he
had something to clear up with the
Navy and when that was taken care
of we would have our religious cere-
mony," she testified. I'm October,
1886, he told me he had everything
all cleared up, and then he finally
told me for the first time that he
had been previously married"
Letters to Both.
Earlier yesterday, when letters
Chief Garrett had written to Ruth
were read, Margaret received an
other shock. The letters disclosed
that the sailor had been paying
ardent court to Ruth after he met
Margaret. On his frequent trips to
sea, Chief Garrett kept a steady
stream of letters flowing back to
both women Margaret's letters
from her sailor had been read the
previous day. The similarity in the
terms of endearment to both women
prompted Judge Let's to comment
You would think he might have
made carbon copies"
Chief CARROTS stern visage during
the letter reading made 1t clear he
did not see anything funny in his
terms of endearment. but both his
wives threw back their heads and
laughed out loud.
Send me a nice big kiss and I'll