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MARRIED BUT KNEW IT NOT.Lawrenoo Woman Snea for Diroroo oa Peculiar Ground a.LAWRENCE, Sept. 12.—Before Judge Maynard In Superior Court today a hearing was held in a local contested divorce case, that of Ethel Kladky, petitioner, vs. Abraham Rosenberg.The couple were married at City Hall in May of last year, but the libellant claims that she had no idea the ceremony was being performed. She further says that the marriage is not binding according to Jewish custom because no ceremony before a rabbi followed.The libellant testified: “In May, 1900, I met Abraham on the street and he said he wanted me to go to City Hall and see it. I went with him and Mary Fox. The city clerk asked him questions and he repeated them to me. He asked my name and age, my father’s and mother’s name.I asked him what the city clerk wanted to know all that for and he said so that I could be registered and could And my name there; I couldn’t understand what was said and I had no idea that I was being married. I couldn’t speak English then. I didn’t know I was married until my father said he had seen it in the pa-, per. I have never lived with Abrahamas his wife.Rosenberg testified that they went to the City Hall and after getting the license were married, but at his wife’s request they decided to live apart according to the Jewish custom for two months, and then hold the Jewish ceremony. The day after the civil marriage his wife told him her father was mad. She never said she did not understandshe was married.The case will be argued later In theweek. _
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Sep 13, 1901
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