Thrice Married at 18.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5436, 28 March 1889, Page 3

Thrice Married at 18.

The New York correspondent of tho Wellington Times writes: — A novel case occurred here this week in tho discovery of a dmiisel of eighteen who has three loving husbands, and all of them lawfully married to her, and today &he could lawful y sue every one of them for non-support, and if they had any money shecouldmake then pay the piper. Sho met her first fate in Brooklyn, while bite was f.orting iaga on ais i-U\ ash-dump, and Iwv Cupid was a pcddlar in the rag busim-s.- 1 . When he saw how deftly sho did h.-r work, he saw visions of prospective wealth in the alliance, and ho offered her his hand and cart. She accepted A new five-cent calico completed the wedding trosseau, and repairing at once to the Ro*. Mr White, who is tho youthful bver's friend, and who takeo anything from a ham sandwich to a postage stamp for tyi g the nuptial knot, Mr White, in less time than ifc takes to record it, had made two one as fast a- book could do it. Th co days of wedded bliss satisfied AT p Frederick We'sse i lsat he had mode a slight mistak ■, so ho g;u'o Mrs Frederick Wei ss a lambasting and lift her ; she then went to Connecticut and i ln re sho found her second flame ;he was only eighteen yeHis of oge, and of no particular account at that. A week sufficed for the Ci wrtship, and she entered into (he pro^ri; toreliip of hushand number two. After p. mon hof unqualified happiness, except that he used to bent her, he, too, fled and returned no more. She was noi inc"Vißiilftble, fov she w*\s young and goodli.i.king, nob yet being quite eighteen. She returned to her mother's homo in Brooklyn, and so >n met number throe. Sho frankly told him of her two other unfortunate ventures, but he said if she would skip ova to Jersey hod take hei for bettor ;>r w»'i so. So to Jersey the) repaired, and for the third time sh< changed her name. Number three worried out tor nearly four months, when he too, auccu bed to fat?. And now coniei the wonderful part of the story Thii girl, b( n and brought up in Brook lyn, rei> hing tho age of eighteen yearn never knew<>r thought there was anything wrong in taking as many husbanda as sh< pleased. She could neither read or writ she did not know a letter in the alphabet or a number on the calendar. From !)•• childhood ahe had be n forced on the strict by dissolute parents, and Bhe grow • womanhood, scarcely ever hearing th niiino of God exc^ptwas uttered pr< funely What chance had she in lift-.? whui woniit that aho fell 'I Only the other day wo et-n of!' twelve missionaries to tho Congo ; wh ii ■' nave our own benighted heathen h^rt Fni innately f<>r her si c han committid n offence at ainst our laws here, fur sh oi«l married "lie h iisbund in New York ; an slu: committed ti" broach of tlio law i New Jersey, f^r she only murried on ih'.ie, and the sune in Connecticut.