SEVEN MONTHS A BRIDE.

Shannon News, 4 May 1923, Page 2

SEVEN MONTHS A BRIDE.

“HUSBAND” A WOMAN. On the plea that the supposed husband to whom she was united by two wedding ceremonies was a woman, “Mrs” Blanche Houston (nee Hughes), of East Orange, New Jersey, has begun a suit in the Chancery Court at Trenton for annulment. Miss Hughes was 23 years old and a stenographer when, on April 28, 1920, she and a person who gave the name of William J. Flouston i aged 25, were wedded at the office of the county clerk in New York.

They went through a religious ceremony at a Roman Catholic Church, a'so in New York, on June 18 following. For seven months the couple lived together, part of the time in this city, and later in Detroit, and were "very happy.’’ Then her “hussband,” ( who was a motor-car salesman, complained that business whs bad, that he could no longer support her, and suggested that, pending a change in his fortunes, she return to her parents, which she did. Since then she has neither seen him nor heard from him, she says. Pier petition sets forth that she has been informed, and believes, that ‘William J. Houston,” while professing to be man, was, in fact, a normal woman, and had, with intent, misled and defrauded her by “hiding and concealing ‘his’ true sex." Wherefore she asks the Court for