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‘GET HITCHED QUICK’-ruREACHES NEW YORKiyia8 Vedtoin\v;trlaTechnically, He Has Com- m|dlt;mitted Bigamy in v*Morning.MRS. CHESTER HIDINCFormer Wife Will 1 ake No ActionAgainst Former Husband.She Says.New York, Nov. 1.—“Get hitched quick” Chest#! is what all his actorand author friends were calling £ George Randolph Chester this after- I noon, after the creator of “Get Rich! Quick Wallingford” arrived in port on the Kronprinz Wilhelm with wifenumber two.The reason for the name was that ! wife number one, Elizabeth M. ^ Chester, is still his wife. She obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce on October 11, which will not j , be confirmed until January 11. |The novelist married Lillian Dor j emo—who was named as co-respondent in the divorce case—in Paris on October 12. Therefore, technically j he committed bigamy.When the Kronprinz Wilhelm arrived the ship news man saw upon vj her passenger list “Herr G. Chester” j c land below this “Frau G. Chester.”! This was a surprise inasmuch as i everyone knew that he had no right jto marry until next year. lie ap~! cpeared on the deck with a slightly lt;j built young woman who was very , s pretty but also very pale and apparently nervous.“I’m not the Chester you want,”\clt;
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1911
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