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Show 01 Ml IRIS IIISIF-SISTER Mother Keps Blood Relationship Relation-ship Secret for Private Reasons Rea-sons of Her Own. CINCINNATI, O.. April 12. A stranffo story tbat resulted in the divorce of John P. Ruch, Jr., aged 22 years, from hi hnlf-slster. Helen IJorfinan Ruch, 24, was related in the solvency court here today, i The half-brother and half-sister weru married October 25, 1010. licit her at the time knowing of the blood relationship between them- The discovery of tho relationship re-lationship wa disclosed a few weeks ago uud the action for n. divorce followed. It wnf oxplalned to the court that the mistake had been possible because of the fact that, the mother, for a private reason, rea-son, had hidden from the children the fact that lb?y vrero half-brothor and half-sister, half-sister, allowing "them to believe that tho girl wan only an adopted child. The husband hus-band vas given tho custody of the couple's two children. The petition for divorce, filed by the husband, was on the formal ground of neglect. The dlyorr.e was granted on thut ground to protect the young people so far as possible In the record. The father and mother of the young couple were not In court when the hearing hear-ing was held. The relationship of the Ruchs was. disclosed to tho young husband and wife bv Judge William Lcuders of tho probaU court ft few weeks ago in the preeenco of their mother. Mrn. John P. Huch. Neighbor .of the Ruch family informed Judgo Lenders they believed the couple were half-brother and half-sister- He learned nfler investigation that the two had grown up together under tho belief that tho girl was only an adopted daughter of Mrs. Rueh. The youngest of their children is a few weeks old. I securing the marriage license Ruch gave the young woman's name ae Helen "ThrVoung man camo to the probate rourl in' 1U10 and secured a license to nam- Ws young woman, who, it since bee dli-overed, Is his half-s ster." Sd Judge Lenders to the solvency 0"That was before the recent law waa passed requiring both W marriage license to appear personam. The voung mun gave his name, age and gJrnrly. He gave tho young fnntn.md on Page Nine.) OHIO MAN MARRIES RIS HALF-SISTER (Continued from Pa?e Ono.) woman's name as Helen Hoffman and told her age and address. I am Informed In fact, I have Investigated tho matter mat-ter carefully mid feel certain that he did not know at that time that this young womnn was his half-sister. Still Love Each Other. "The discovery was not made until a comparatively short time ago. 1 had them in my office and we tried to arrive at some solution of tho pr6blom presented. pre-sented. They have two children. They still love each other and lovo their children. chil-dren. "I explained to them thai although they might be able to keep the secrot for yenrs there would come a time as surely as anything human can bo certain cer-tain when someone would discover It, and It would be cxprd. possibly In their declining yeari". Or If tho disclosure were to come not until after their death, It would be, left as a. herltago to their children. Now they can come Into court, honestly to explain an honest mtntakc and do the only thine In their power to rectify their mistake." t , j |