Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — Husbands Discover That They Have Same Wife. [ARTICLE]

Husbands Discover That They Have Same Wife.

New York, May 26.—Two expressmen, one With a little business of his own in the other with a like business in Manhattan, met in the course of trade, quite by chance, and got to telling their troubles. “Not six months after I married my wife dropped put of sight. I never heard from her afterward. It is a mystery," said Thomae Beaver, 1283 Park place, Brooklyn, one of the two. ; - • “Well, that brat’s anything I ever heard—l had the very same experience myself,” said John Gallagher, og 403 East Fifty-Third street, Manhattan, the other., ’ They drove around to Gallagher’s house and looked at the picture of his missing spouse. ‘That’s my wife—as I live,” cried Beaver. Detective Patton, of Brooklyn, was informed of the strange cointwo men mourning the disappearance of a wife and both wives the same woman. He finally located her in Boston. A letter was mailed telling the woman that Gallagher—the last husband—was ill and about to die; was always calling for her, and no doubt would get better if she hurried home. “Will arrive on boat Saturday,” she wired. The two hpsbands and the detective met her at the dock. She turned pale, wavered, then decided to brave it out But as she swept past the Patton put her under arrest. In Gates avenue court the woman, who had given her name as Mrs. Agnes Gallagher, waived examination and was held on a charge of bigamy, the two husbands identifying her. ■Beaver was married in St. Mathew’s church, Brooklyn, June 18, 1912, and Gallagher in Epiphany church, Manhattan, November 23, 1913.