SUNSHINE GIRL TANGLE.

Shannon News, 11 August 1925, Page 4

SUNSHINE GIRL TANGLE.

ELOPES LENT AFTER SHAM DEATH. From a Correspondent. NEW YORK. June l;* The weird matrimonial complications of Mr and Mrs Edyard J. Sailsted, of Wisconsin, to-day reached a curiously happy ending. Five years ago Mr. Sailsted, a married man. and his typist. Miss Dorothy Anderson, wiio, as an amateur actress, earned the nickname of the “sunshine girl,” eloped after staging a sinister tragedy. They exhumed a body from a local cemetery, placed it in Mr. Sailsted’s bed. and set tiro to his residence. Mr. Sailsted’s wif e was hurriedly summoned from her lakeside summer resort and identified the burned body as that of her husband. She collected, in all good faith, his ample life insurance, and in due course married a prosperous citizen of Wisconsin. Found After 3 Years.

The insurance company, however, cherished doubts about the body. Their agents, two years ago, identified Mr. Sailsted and the typist, who had been living as man and wife under an assumed name for three years in Californa.

The couple were brought back to the little town of Fond du Lac, "Wisconsin. and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for fraud. Mrs. fJailsted meanwhile separated from her second husband. She secured a divorce from the man she had supposed to be dead and remarried her second husband. The criminals went to gaol after a dramatic scene in which they proclaimed to the court “We shall rove each other for ever.”

A few weeks ago Mr. Sailsted was released on parole. Yesterday "the sunshine girl” obtained her release. She was met by Mr Sailsted as slie emerged from the gaol, and the eoupie went to a marriage license bureau. To-morrow they are to be married.