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Show MARRIAGE BETWEEN WOMEN. A Trial In a London Court Reveals a Plot Worthy of the Dime Novel. The legal world of London is much exercised over the complications likely to ensue from revelations made in a trial which has been had before Mr. Justice Chitty. It appears that in a marriage contracted in 18G5", which up to the present time was thought to be valid, both parties were women. In the year mentioned Mrs. Rachel Elizabeth Cullener, a widow, was harassed har-assed by creditors who wanted to attach the income she derived from the will of her husband. This income, by the will, 6he would lose if she married again. She had living with her a son and daughter, daugh-ter, together with Miss Sophia New-land, New-land, a cousin of Mrs, Cullener's late husband. The whole family was suffering for want of food, when it was suggested by the daughter ihat her mother marry again, after which her children would colla-'t the income and support her. It wTas riifficult to find a husband who could be trasted. So Mrs. Cullener, in man's clothe under the name of James Stanley, was married in due form to Miss Sophia Nwland, who at the marriage mar-riage ceremor: r ok the name of Mn Cullener. Both signed their borrowed names in the register of the parish, and Mrs. New-land New-land lived with Mrs. Cullener until 1883. Both have testified on the trial to the facta here aarrated. Mr. Justice Chitty refused to believe the witnesses and dismissed dis-missed the cse, holding that a woman who has, by her own admission, been for years ' 'steeped in fraud' ' has no right i to oomplain if the courts decline to believe be-lieve her when she com f forward in her own interest to impta h a solemn entry in a marriage register, the accuracy accura-cy of a recital in a deed to which she was herself a party and .the plain intent in-tent and meaning of the course of conduct con-duct which she has pursued. London Cor. New York Commercial Advertiser. |