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Show 0FT-DIY05GED, GRACE ''v ' ( ' .3rSHELrAGAINA;DRiDE Four Times Legally Freed -From Her Husband, CM-. CM-. cago Wcman Chooses a New Mate. - 009 3 1MTVRTAOB AND DXVO&CS , . 9 BEOOBD 07 GRACE S5XLL 9 - corror-corror-'WAL- xxs-corraj-LAYMAif. . : $ 1884-Marrled to " Frank Nixon Coffin.. . , 1894 Divorced from Frank Nixon Coffin. . ' , 1898 Remarried to Frank Nbron Coffin. '. 1899 Divorced from Frank Nixon Coffin. 1899 Married to James C Walker, tgf 190ft Divorced from - James C . Walker. 1901 Remarried to Frank Nixon' Coffin. " - -"-nf 1901 Divorced from Frank NlxonV Coffin. 190B Married to Perkins A. Lay-f ' man. . . . "V) Mrs. Grace Snell-Walker-Coffla is again a bride. For the fifth time the oft-divorced Chicago woman has ventured upon the sea of matrimony. The announcement of the last ceremony, which took place in Riverside. CaL,- was a surprise to many of her friends, who believed be-lieved she was about to wed for the fouitfl time her three-times divorced husband, Frank. Nixon Coffin. ., The latest husband Is Perkins A. Layman, Lay-man, and the ceremony was performed last Thursday. The story of the wedded life' of Mrs. Coffin or Mrs. Layman is without parallel In Chicago history. Married when barely 18 years old to Mr. Coffin, then a -West Side dancing master, against the will of her millionaire father, Grace Snell opened an existence that for varied experience exceeds the work of the most imaginative romancer. At the end of ten years she sued for divorce di-vorce and was legally separated from her husband for alleged incompatibility cf temper. The pleadings of a dying child reunited husband and wife, and they were remarried remar-ried at his bedside a few months later. A second divorce followed, and her marriage mar-riage to James C. Walker, a hotel clerk and tenor singer, followed. In 1901 the divorce from Mr. Walker was granted, and within a short time the third marriage to Coffin was celebrated. This for brevity holds the palm. Immediately Imme-diately after the ceremony a mysterious woman called upon Mrs. Coffin. The call lasted but a few minutes, but was effective. effec-tive. Mrs. Coffin left word at the hotel office that her husband should not be admitted, and a few days later a third divorce was secured from the name Wisconsin court that granted the decree to Mrs. Walker. |