AN AMERICAN COMEDY OF ERRORS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1131, 4 January 1884, Page 3

AN AMERICAN COMEDY OF ERRORS.

At Milwaukee, Miss Matilda Pope, twenty years of age, appeared at the office of Judge Benzler in order to be married to ayoung man named William Coni in, who said he was just twentyone. The ceremony was performed, t ie couple departed, and Judge Benzler expected to hear no more of them, when he was surprised, only two or three days afterwards, by a visit from Mrs Conlin The bride wanted a divorce, her plea being that her husband had committed perjury by swearing that be was of age. On closer inquiry the truth came to light. The ex-Miss Pope had, she inlorraed the Justice, been married to the wrong man. i here were, she went on to explain, twin brothers named Conlin, and she wanted and had intended to marry the other one. The personal resemblance between the two is marvellously close, but their characters are widely different. One is a sober, industrious, moral young man ; while the other is a dissipoted scrapegrace. Miss Pope fixed her affections on the moral brother; he proposed - at least that was her impression—and she accepted him. 1 1 may have been, the lady and her legal adviser admit, the bad brother whom she accepted, or he may have supplanted the good brother at the magistrate’s office She does not oar* to go into that question, but is advised that the fact of the husbaud swearing falsely as to his age constitutes good ground for a divorce. The papers relating to the matter have been tiled in the huher Court.