Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1917 — SHE HAS TWO HUSBANDS IN SINGLE CITY BLOCK [ARTICLE]

SHE HAS TWO HUSBANDS IN SINGLE CITY BLOCK

To Never Call Either by the Other’s Name Was No Easy Task, . Bhe Says. Pottsville, Pa.—With large, somewhat pearly tears trickling down her pretty face, Mary Vollen, as constant a bride as ever rushed to and from an altar, confessed to Aiderman P. J. Martin that she had married two men within a year and was still their fond and thoughtful wife. This seemed a great deal to tell an aiderman, but the fact was that a hearing was being held before that official into the life and loves of Mary Vollen. The young woman told, between sighs and sniffles, of how she had lived a double life on a single block, at the ends of which were the hofnes her loving husbands kept for her. Her husbands, Matthew Karacitis and Vincent Vollen, were both in court registering amazement and uncertain whether it would be advisable to fight a duel or burst out crying. They left the room thru different doors, still stunned, before the hearing was half over. Mary told of how difficult it had been to rush from home to home and never call either husband by the other’s name. Alder man Martin held the young woman in $5,000 bail and she immediately communicated with her husbands. A courier pulled the bells at the homes out about a yard, but there was no response it seemed as the there was no one at either residence.