“BACK FROM THE DEAD.”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5291, 25 June 1928, Page 1

“BACK FROM THE DEAD.”

DEMPSEY'S FORMER WIFK A RE-UNION SOUGHT. A’sensation was caused’in sporting and pugilistic circles yesterday when it became known that’Mrs Jack Dempsey, formerly Maxine Cate, who married the heavy-weight champion in 1916. and who was creditably reported to have been burned to death in a fire at a dance ball at Juarez, -Mexico, in 192-1, had reappered in New York, ast hough from the dead. The woman has .announced through her solicitors that she intends to hiring an action immediately to set aside the divorce decree granted in 1919 to Dempsey, who is now -married to Miss Estelle Taylor, on the ground that she had not had sufficient notice of the champion’s intention to divorce her. The woman denies that she- has ever been in Juarez in her life, arid adds that she has emerged from the retirement she sought after the Demp-soy-slacke.r trial in 1921 only to -vindicate her name against the scries of magazine articles dealing with Dempsey’s life. When the champion was informed over the telephone by Reuter’s correspondent of the woman’s claim he remarked : “Well, I’m real glad to know she’s still alive.” Beyond that he refused to comment.