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W HITCHED QUICK' REACHES NEW YORKI'illyin8 VI t‘(ltoinwiarit aTechnically, He Has Coin- p|(Umitted Bigamy inMorning.MRS. CHESTER H1DINCFormer Wife Will 1 ake No ActionAgainst Former Husband,She Says.New York, Nov. 1.—“Get hitched quick” Chest#r is what all his actor I and author friends were calling r George Randolph Chester this after-1 noon, after the creator of “(Jet Rich Quick Wallingford” arrived in port on the Kronprinz Wilhelm with wife |number two. IThe reason for the name was that 1 wife number one, Elizabeth M. \ Chester, is still his wife. She ob tallied an interlocutory decree -of divorce on October 11, which will not j A be confirmed until January 11.The novelist married Lillian Dcr- \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 ar rived the ship news man saw upon wher passenger list “Herr G. Chester” o and below this “Frau 0. Chester.” v This was a surprise inasmuch as .everyone knew that he had no right I Jto marry until next year. Me up-i c peared on the deck with a slightly d built young woman who was very pretty but also very pale and apparently nervous.“Pm not the Chester you want,”sC1the novelist said first; “Pm not the f‘Wallingford’ Chester.” But th*newsoaner men knew him anda
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Thu, Nov 02, 1911
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