A "WIRELESS' DIVORCE.
ANOTHER YANKEi. RECORD. THE LADY GREW IMPATIENT.
The first divorce by wireless telegraphy is reported from San FniucLs-o. where liie Courts granted the appeal of Mrs. Marie King for the dissolution of her marriage with a millionaire Californian oil man. Mrs. King, who is herself a very wealthy woman, and tho heiress to large estates on the Pacific Coast, was in Honolulu, and immediately on receiving news of t tic Court's decision she married a man whose , name was withhold. Mrs. King sued for i divorce some little time ago, and havlug ! placed her lawyers in full possession of the facts of the case she sailed for the Far East. While in Honolulu she met the man who is now her second husband, and desiring to marry him without delay she instructed her lawyers by wireless to expedite her case and secure the decree at uiii-c. Although the Californiau courts had not reckoned ou wireless divorces, her case was so strong that no objection was raised hy the judges, aud the decree was made, absolute. The news was immediately sent by wireless to Honolulu, and Mrs. King and her fiance lost no time iv bunting up a minister who accepted the legal proof of the divorce and consented to marry , them, '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17
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214A "WIRELESS' DIVORCE. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17
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