A suit for; separation '.brought by a lady'in New York has resulted in a remarkable puzzle.'; 'John. Cotton Smith (says the "Daily Telegraph") in ISBB married a Miss' Lillian Brown, ana.in 1892 a lawyer gave him what purported to be a decree of divorce issued bya 'Philadelphia Court.. Since then he has been married twice. Ho divorced his second wife, and'his;.third wife'is suing: for separation. .. His first wife, acting on the assumption, that the decreef now alleged to bo fraudulent' was valid, married, and afterwards' divorced, her second 'husband. She was about to be married a third time, when sho'learned that the original decree, which deprived her of her husband, was fraudulent.: It is, now asserted that, of thoso four weddings, all except the first were void-!;
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 12
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127Page 12 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 12
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