MARRIED TWICE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 10

MARRIED TWICE.

AND THEN SUICIDED. Two men in .Jersey City each identified the body of a Mrs Hannah Martin, who died in a hospital recently of poisoning, as that of his wife.

James W. Kd wards, 82 yearn old, of Hoboken, said lie had married her four years ago, when she was Hi years old, because he had known her since she was a child and wished her to get a pension as his widow, he having fought »in the civil war. A few months after they were married, he said, she left him, and he had been trying to find her ever since. He wept when lie saw her body, and had to be assisted from the morgue. He said he would bury her. William Martin also identified the body as that of his wife. He said he had married her a year ago, and that three mouths ago, when she first told him of her marriage to Edwards and that she did not have a divorce, lie left her. He said she had gone to his home, and when he refused to take her back she said she would kill herself, but lie did not believe the threat. Half an hour later she was found in the street, suffering pain, and said she had swallowed poison.

All German actresses, whether married or single are, in accordance with the ruling of the German Theatre Union of Berlin, to be henceforth styletl '' Prau Schauspielerin'' ('' Madame the Actress*'). . For the first time for 11 years a wedding was solemnised at Isley Walton, a village near Castle Douington, Leicestershire, where there have only been 00 marriages since 1754.