A Marriage Maniac

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 33, 2 September 1890, Page 4

A Marriage Maniac

/ .' .f {' Tke divorce records of this .term • ' will be enriched by . the entry of a • 'very peculiar petition by Mrs Stella' "Weston, wife ,of the Eev. Charles Weston, of Wiscousin." The minister will contest the petition. . Mrs Westo . ' ' took preliminary, steps this mornin i byi instructing her lawyers to make • 'out her remarkable story for presen- • tation to the court. The woman is 32 years of age and .' lias -been married nine times, all with.4n the space of eight years, Weston being her first and ninth husband. '. He is, also her second,- third, fourth,,, J 'fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth hus---'band; her frequent man iages having ; been solemnized with the same brider^groom. I According to her statement, Weston ' ris a marriage maniac, ever seeking to j —be married but never insisting upon a :- new bride. Owing to this matrimon- ' x ial mania, Mrs Weston says her .- married life has been- one long and ~ harrowing honeymoon. They were 2 first married at the" little town of j - Millbrook, in Wisconsin, according to ; -$he form of the Methodist Church. Europe was selected for the honey- ' - moon tour, and while in Dublin he ' told her he thought their marriage .was not ecclesiastically perfect, because the parson who united them had .. 'not been ordained by apostolic imposition of hands, and he made arrangements for another marriage in St. Patrick's Cathedral of Dublin. She thought him over-scrupulous, but consented. He found a flaw in this marriage and was married again in Dublin, and then by a Presbyterian on the steamer. Marriages by Unitarians, Swedenborgians and Spiritualists then followed, and , then a year ago, his wife got weary - and left him.