ARREST AFTER “MARRIAGE.”

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1929, Page 3

ARREST AFTER “MARRIAGE.”

XXTFE AT HUSBAND’S SECOND XVEDDING. NICXV YORK, Febunrv One of the queerest tangles ever known in this country of strange matrimonial adventures is revealed to-day in the arrest of Herbert J. I.eigh-Man-uell, organist of tho 'fashionable church in Sayville, Long Island, on a charge of bigamy. Leigh-ManuelFs second marriage took place yesterday at the Marble Collegiate Church in Fifth Avenue to one of his pupils, Martha. X'anweyn, who is 19 years of age. With them, busily assisting at the ceremony’, was Mrs Leigh-Manuell, who married the musician at the XX resleyan chapel at Foundry, near Hayle, Cornwall, England, on January 7th, 1915. Martha XLimveyn, who was brought up in the strict religious atmosphere of an old Dutch family, ifell in love with her teacher as lie spoke of his genius wasted in his narrow life on Long Island and drew entrancing music from his keyboard. XX’hen lie found, that he too was in love the organist went straight to his wife and stated the case for her consideration. The wife asked the girl if she really loved her husband and, receiving a passionate affirmative, began preparations for their marriage. THE FATHER’S REPLY. The marriage was duly’ celebrated, but newspaper reporters struck the first blow at Ibis triangular happiness. They telephoned to Martha X amveyn’father thnt his daughter was married. “ There must he some mistake. Leigh-Manuell is already married and has three children,” replied the fntlmr. Then the law stepped in and arrested the organist on a charge of bigamy, to which lie has pleaded not gui' Both women are in distress. The wife, as her husband left with dot o'" tives. put money in his purse so that “ mv darling can buy cigarettes when he wanst some”; and the young girl, restored to the stern confines of her religious-minded home, is weeping at the loss of her romance.