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Show FORGOT TO BRING HER DECREE OF DIVORCE Newark, N. J., Oct. 20. A little matter of law proventod Floroncc Bromley, nuthor ot tho. "Bunny" lot ters nnd "Tho Woman in tho Caso,' from becoming tho wlfo of Allisor McFnrland within nn hour after lili ncqultnl this afternoon of the murdci of his wife. ' The mnrrlago licenso elork had pro ceeded half way In his preparation f his licenso permitting them to wed when discovery was made that MIbs Bromley had not brought along the decree ot divorce from her former husband. This halted proceedings and the rcmarkablo couple turned disconsolately dis-consolately away while a mob of 500 men and boys followed after them derisively de-risively whistling tho strains ot tho wedding march from "Lohengrin." Had MacFarland succeeded in marrying Florerico Bromley today tho coromony would havo been performed on the first anniversary to a day" of the death of his first wife, whoso murder wns charged to his' Infatuation Infatua-tion for tho woman he now seeks to mnko his bride. In tho Intervening period ho has been tried nnd convicted of tho raur- 1 der, sent to the denth houso at Tren ton, where ho was able to count the hours that stood between htm and electrocution and he has felt tho unutterable un-utterable Joy of a reprieve and a new trial when hope has been abandoned. |