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Show DIVORCE NOT GRANTED FROM HIS FIRST WIFE Discovery Made After Twenty-One Years; Has Been i Married Twice in the Meantime. ..... , . . CANTON, O.. Feb. 28. A real Enoch Arden case has come to light In Canton, in which James S. Reamer of Alliance plays the leading part. Reamer has five children from three marriages, andhe has Just discovered that he was never divorced from his first wife. ' I Twenty-one- years ago Reamer left his first wife. After the separation Reamer Rea-mer applied for a divorce, and claims that he paid his attorney to obtain k decree, de-cree, and accordingly thought that he had been separated from his first wife. He went to Kent, O., and married his second wife, with whom he lived' until her death! After wife No. 2 died he went to Alliance and married Bessie Miller. A short time ago Reamer learned that wife No. 1 had represented to the pension authorities that he was dead, and that she had been granted a widow's pension. Reamer went to see his first wife and accused her of willfully misrepresenting misrepresent-ing theacts in order to secure tils pension. She insisted that she had not heard from him for so many years that she thought he was dead. Wife No. 1 then informed in-formed him that be never had been divorced, and an examination of the records showed this to be true. He has now forwarded the money with which to obtain a divorce to wife No. 1, and the case will be put on trial at Troy, O., next week. After the divorce Reamer will remarry his 'present wife. Reamer Insisted that he has done nothing wrong willfully, as he thought he had been divorced. He claims that his attorney failed to do xtis duty, and this has caused all the difficulty. Reamer is now (3 years old and a prominent merchant mer-chant of AllLancv. Wife No. 3 is only 2Sw |