Breaking the Marriage Record.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 3

Breaking the Marriage Record.

■ A New York correspondent writes :— « Did you ever hear of a ban being; married three < times to one and the same woman, and a woman three times ,to one man and twice to another ? Well, 1 this has just happened in the State" of Ohio, one of the prosperous commonwealths composing the United States. A presumably fair maiden named Oaines was' wooed and won by Mr William C. Queen. William and' his spouse did not live pleasantly together, and she sought relief in the divorce courts. Very soon after the divorce was granted she married Mr SamuelSeitz, and .he, too, developed a temper that was incbmpatible with that of the spouse. She was' divorced from him and married Jacob Meeker. Though she thus became Meeker in name she was not so in temperament, for she soon broke tho bonds of matrimony with another divorce and was once more free. What did' she do but seek her first, or rather second love— the Seitz for whom she gave up her name of Queen ? Married they were a second tim-3, but they did not long remain so. Another divorce was obtained, and somehow or other fate brought Meeker again to the front and married him a second time to the grass widow, who had declared'she could not abide him. Old TempusTEdax soon drew her away from Meeker and around to Seitz once more. She is therefore Mrs Seitz no less than three times, and Mrs Meeker twice, and the same Seitz and the same Meeker too. It is safe to say that this enterprising woman has broken the matrimonial record of the United Stakes, if not of the whole Christian world. The last marriage took place on February 21th ; the returns for the whole month are riot in yet, and possibly there may bo another wonder in store for us. If this sort of thing becomes fashionable it will b,e necessary for every man and woman 'to carry a note-book with suitable blanks for recording daily marriages or engagements. There will be a run upon divorce machinery, and the occupation of divorce lawyer will be more lucrative than ever before. What a plot for a dramatist has been furnished in the career of * the much-married woman whose adventures are recorded in this paragraph V