WOMAN USES ANOTHER’S NAME; CAUSES MIX-UP.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 12

WOMAN USES ANOTHER’S NAME; CAUSES MIX-UP.

FORTUNE INVOLVED IN STRANGE CASE. (Special to the ‘"Star.”) SAN FRANCISCO, April 1(3. The story of a woman believed to have borrowed the identity of another on her wedding day and thereby unintentionally threatened an heiress with loss of a fortune through the stipulation of an eccentric will, was unfolded in the County Clerk’s office to day. Lawyers procured from the County Clerk a record showing that seven years ago William Gough of Seattle, Wash., and Miss Eunice L. Sargent of Santa Cruz, Cal., were married. After the papers had been turned over, former Town Clerk Stanley Cornish, who issued the license, said that Miss Sargent of Santa Cruz denied she ever married, and asserted the woman married in her name in unknown to her and pirated her identity

He said that Miss Sargent is an heir» ess worth some half million dollars, and she standS'tu low: an additional 300,000 dollars unless she can prove that she was not party ‘0 the ('arrnel ccroznony. The 300.000 dollars was to go to her if she had not marricd when the will was filed.

According to relatives at Santa Cruz, Miss Sargent was married to Gough and was divorced from him about five years ago in Los Angelcs. Her niece. Miss Frances Kcrrick, (laughter hf

Mayur \V. 0. Kerrick of Santa Vruz. said yesterday that Miss Sargent had never tried to conceal that she was married and that she knew of no reason why she should try to do so. She left a week agqfor Paris from Arizona, according to the niece.