Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-06 | Page 5 | Legality of Marriage

LEGALITY OF MARRIAGE Question Before tho Propaganda That Is Liable to Affect Thousands Thou-sands of People Rome Sept 5Tho application of Princess Rosplgllosl who was Miss Marie Reid of Washington D C for I the annulment of her first marriage with Frodrlck Parkhurst of Bangor Me Involves n point of canon law the I decision on which Is considered In church circlcp as liable to affect thou ands o marriages of Catholics and nonCathollca In the United States The application for the annulment was fed fourteen months ago I Is now said that the principal reason for the delay fs because the propoganda was unwilling to decide In favor of the supplicant on a point which might pos ulbly raise the question of the legallly of any other marriage The Prlnccsy lawyers expect to secure se-cure an annulment on the ground that there Is no trace of n dispensation having hav-ing been cither granted or read In the church at the time of the marriage which according to canon lav > Is Indispensable In-dispensable as Mr Parkhurst was a nonCatholic The American clergymen clergy-men say that these formalities are generally gen-erally omitted and a decision In favor of the Princess contention will affect I thousands of similar canes The lawyers law-yers have Just formally complained of the delay In reaching n decision which they attrIbute to malevolence I