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Show AH EXTP.AORDINAR YCAS5 OF MISTAKEN MIS-TAKEN IDENTITY (!) A few lines of telegrapliic dispat chea from the east have informed ui of a remarkable trial of a lady in Portland, Maine, for bigamy. It is probably one of the most bothersome cases that was ever before a court, and deserves a more than telegraphic notice. In April of last year, as the contestants contest-ants show, Mr. Edward F. Waite, of Portland, was united in marriage to a lady named Carrie JI. Kent. After a time a Mr. Johu Waller, of Pic ton, Nova Scotia, who had lost his wife, heard of this marriage, and after obtaining ob-taining all the information that he could of the appearance, age, &c.t of .this newly married Mrs. Waite, he arrived at the .conclusion that Mis Carrie, of twenty-two eummers, was none other than his wife, whom he had married in Piclou in 1602, in the name of Catharino M. Keut, and . that she was beyond all doubt, the mother of hiB son and daughter, now aged respectively eleven and ecven years. During this remarkable Vial, Waller Wal-ler claimed Mrs. Waite aa his wife; the children claimed her as their mother; photographs' were found in her possession and recognized to be the portraits of those childien; yeL Mrs. Carrie M. Waite has looked at them all wi tl . ; a tol id hid i fler-ence fler-ence and declared that she knew nothing of Waller or his children, chil-dren, and had never seen them before be-fore their confronting hei in court ! Waller has had relatives, and acquaintances ac-quaintances of his wife without number num-ber to swear to her identity, and every thing else that could possibly be accepted ac-cepted as positive proof of her ideuti-. ideuti-. fication as his wife, yet she holds out that she knows nothing of any person who confronts her, and that she never Baw them before; nd,what -is still more strange, in the face of alt the facts alluded to, Mr. Waite firmly believes be-lieves that he married a maiden of 22, instead of a woman of 30, and the mother of Waller's two children I The only defenco offered was that of "mistaken identity," and the innocent in-nocent and lamb-like plea of the impossibility im-possibility "of any woman acting 60 foolishly." Unless Carrie M. " breaks down" and "makes a clean breast of it" there is nothing but the appearance of the lost Catherine M. that can settle that case- of whoso wife she shall be. Should it come out that Miss Carrie, of Port and, in 1S73, and Misa Catherine, of Pictou, in 1SC2, are one and the same, the world have learned another lesson of the power of infatuation and the stubbornness stub-bornness of a woman's will. No mao has yet furnished such an illustration ol unyielding firmness. In the presence of this Waite-Waller case, the celebrated Sir Jlogcr Tichborne trial falls into comparative obscurity. |