SIAMESE TWINS’ QUEST
LICENSE TO MARRY WANTED. PERSISTENCE THEIR WATCHWORD. Two refusals of a license to marry did not .detei’ the British Siamese twins, Violet and Daisy Hilton. . ■ Refused at New York, they went to Newark, New Jersey; no more successful there, they set out for Ellston, Maryland, to try again. Violet wants to marry Maurice Lambert, a 29-year-old dance-band leader. Daisy is waiting to marry a London boxer as joon as he is permitted to enter the United States. The New York City Registrar said “No.” One marriage license could not be issued to two persons. The Newark Bureau could not oblige because the answers to the usual questions were given in the plural. : Was Violet downhearted? Far from it. “Third time lucky,” she said, and took train to Ellston—with Daisy, of course. The twins, who are 26 years old, ere joined at the hips. They can dance, swim and play golf, and are excellent dressmakers. It was generally believed that they were bom in Texas, but. in 1931 a Brighton woman said that , they were bom in Brighton.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 3
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