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a loveless sacrifice.Marriage or ■ Sunnery.A BOWATnc tale of lore and w»r unfold*! Mo** Judge Collin* (he other day. Mr* Marr Alice Prir*t. with b*r ktlomey*. Oeo. I 1*. Stile* and ei Judge Barnum, waa More the court ■* complainant in a bill ink-in* that her marriage with Ketdinand A. Prieat, of Henderson, Ky.. be decUrcd roid ali initio. About four rear* ago Mr*. Prir*t'a father, Patrick Cunningham, and her *tep-mother. May K. Cunningham, separated. Th* father obtained frott Judge Tuley an order firing him th# cuatody of hi* two children and directing that they be placed in the Academy of the Sacred Heart. Strangely enough, Mr*. Priest. who wa* then barely •iiteen year* old, clung to her stepmother, and. to eerape th* order of the court, wcrt with th# Utter to Kentucky. A* the father could legally foll#w and reclaim her. a mamage wa* arranged by her *t*pmotbrr and her friend*, to which, fearing her father would *hul her up in a content, *he assented. Ferdinand A. Priest, a young Kentuckian, wa* found ckiralrou* enough to sacrifice himself te *are th* girl from In# fate *he feared, and without any courtship, and less than twenty-four hour*' previous acquaintance, the two were married before a Justice of the Peace, January ti, 1885. Th* couple nercr lir*d together or sustained the relation of husband and wife, ami Judge Collin*, after satisfying himself from the authorities presented that the decree asked for wa* the proper one. granted the prayer of the bill
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate
Newcastle, New South Wales, AU
Sat, Jan 19, 1889
Page 3
Full Page
Clipped by
Marion P.
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