ABOUT TO MARRY HIS SISTER,

Dunstan Times, Issue 1257, 2 April 1886, Page 3

ABOUT TO MARRY HIS SISTER,

A romantic story which savors more of a chapter in a novel than of an. incident in real life, comes to us (‘ Jewish Chronicle ’) from New York, A wealthy Jewish manufacturer named Diener in that city became enamored of a poor Jewish sempstress, and, a betrothal having resulted, the couple called upon the Rev. Dr Kohufc in order to request him to celebrate their marriage. Dr Kohut at once agreed; and as he heard that the bride was a countrywoman of his—until last year the rev. gentlemen was Chief Rabbi at Funfkirohen,in Hungary—he asked her several questions respecting her family . In reply she elicited the fact that her father had been beadle at a synagogue in Warsaw, and hence had borne the name of “ Shammas.” On the death of his wife he emigrated to Hungarv, where he married the girl’s mother. After his demise the daughter then a double orphan, sought a new home in the United States. Of the offspring of the hist marriage nothing whatever had been heard. Dr Kohut then turned to tho bridegroom and obtained from him the ah* mission that, though calling hjmself Diener, his real name was identical with that of his fiancee —Shammas Struck by the similarity further inquiries were made, and led to the discovery that the bridegroom and bride were actually brother and sister, children of the “Shammas”,by his two wives. Mr Diener, as a solatium to his newly-found relative, at once made her a present of 1*4,000.

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