Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — A Dead Man Claimed as a Husband. [ARTICLE]

A Dead Man Claimed as a Husband.

At Cohoes, N. Y., the coroner in charge of the case of Thomas Brennan, who waa killed by jumning from a moving train on the Delaware and Hudson railroad, was notified that deceased was married on April 18th to Emma Depamel, and that she claimed his personal effects. She produced a marriage certificate, signed by the Rev. Father Peter Haverman, but the father says the girl, called upon him on Tuesday last ana by‘ her lies procured the certificate, though he did not remember the marriage, and there was no proper record of it. The alleged bride is willing to relinquish all claim to Brennan's property, but she still claims that the marriage took place.

Tha abandoned Oxford mine at Scranton. Pa., has caved in. Several baildings in the vicinity were badly shaken.