Deseret Evening News | 1899-04-01 | Page 11 | Queen Case of Mrs. Koops

ill 1111 5 0051 lit > ttlts 10tttln Mn U O Koopi la I In Ihe extraordl nary ponltlon of Wing a widow ttlthou eter having been a wife A few lays liefur the denlh of Mr Knopi In Houll Africa he wai married by the hand l ihoen Iglotcil In n lady In Holland This lyitim of marriage by proxy It I allowed 1 al-lowed by Dutch law and 1110 I uiual far Dutch brldei and brldrgroomi to be I thut legally unltud before the bride eels 1 out for the foreign land where her tu tore partner li I lIving r F hottjerto f marriage by proxy when Ito bridegroom li I rrpreiented In I the church by a friend li I to protect Ihut woman and la render It Impoiilule fr the man to repudiate the contract slier the hAl Joined him In the cato of poo Mn Konpa the marriage had taken liar And tim ears la have Hurled thortly on her voyage tu Houth Africa to Join her huiband when Ihe newt ot hit dU tai cabltd I to her