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A MARRIAGE THAT WAS A FAILURE.rraiiklMi I*. MrMf ttlforced fro*** Julia iiodfrei Stroug A Carriage to a 1 ou 11 % €*lrl Iter ailed. 'Head era of the Aegus will remember that a number of years ago, Julia E. Godfrey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Godfrey, a as married in this city to Franklin F. i Strong, the marriage bavteg attracted no little attention at the time became of the fact that the bride was of very tender yeara, in fact a little girl in abort dresses, her sge biing only about thirteen or fourteen years. I The bridegroom was an industrious, hard- Jworking carpenter, and a mao of gcod I * h tbits, and all who knew him wondered at j hi* marriage to such a young girt. Ho far J as ia known, he made a good husband, J doing all that was in hi* power to make the life of hii girl wife pleasant and happy. 11 For some time, however, it has been ’ whispered by those who devote themselves ‘ to attending to other people*’ affair*, that j 1 the young wife bad tired of the huaband j1 ake had chosen before she could have posai- 1 bly hava been expected to know her own 11 mind, of even to know what love was, and 1 it was also stated that she bad found an 1 1 4'affinity,n and made no secret of the fact 1 that she preferred him to her husband.Several months ago, Mrs. Strong aban- J doned her husband, left town landyent to ' Philadelphia, where, it is said, she has been 1 living with the man who had supplanted her lt;huaband in her affections. After his wife ! hul left him, Mr. Strong, who seems to i have borne her waywardness with the great- t est patience ani forbearance, made up hia j mind that it was time to lever the bonis united him to her, and he therefore retained Thomas Watts as his a'- lt;torney to institute proceedings for divorce.| The action was begun, the eomplaiut a1-Iegicg the stVutory cause, adultery, as the j reason for asking for a dissolution of the J marital relation. Thera was no opposition offered by Mrs. Strong and the plaintiff had j no difficulty in proving his case and yeeter- [ day, in Specia* Term, at Newburgh, Judge { ^Barnard, signed the decree of divorce and added another to the long lit of marriages ppfcicb have proved failure*.
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Thu, Sep 05, 1889
Page 3
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