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Show FORGERIES OF WIFE , DRIVE HUSBAND AWAY XKW YORK, .July 21. Fred Rowland Hill, scion of a proud Colonial family, has obtained an annulment of his marriage to Eugenie A. Hill, daughter of a banker of Rldgerteld, N". J., on the ground that when ho married her two years ago. while she was teaching a Sunday school class In Pat'rson, N. .1., she had already served a three years' sentence on a conviction of forgery. Mr. Hill testified that from the time he was married until he left his bride he had been worried by some one who had forged his name to many checks. Employing detectives. Mr. Hill said the result was that his wife signed an admission admis-sion that she wan the author of those checks. In the same statement, which was submitted to court and which was backed by the records of the Bedford reformatory re-formatory in this state, it was shown that Mrs. Hill had been married In 1901 to Simeon Harold Baker, and that it was while lllng as his wife that she was con-vlcltcd con-vlcltcd of forgery and sent to all. On being released, and after Baker had obtained ob-tained a divorce, she went to Jive with her sister In Taterson. assuming her maiden name, and In the Sunday school there she met Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill testified that ho believed she was .single and knew nothing of hen former trouble. |