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Show M MISS BIGGAR TELLS STORY. Insists She Was Married to Million- m aire Bennett In Hoboken. M Actress Laura Blggar, who Is V -charged with conspiracy to securo the m millions of Henry M. Bennett, made a m statement regarding her relations M -with Mr. Bennett. She said: "M "We were duly married In Hobok- m -en. The wedding certificate, called m spurious in coiirt tho other day, Is jS genuine. At least, It Is Urn one given !h mo the night of my wedding and had 31 not left my care until It was handed i to the court as evidence of my mar- ffl Tlage. EM "Whj did we keep tho marriage a Mj secret all these years? Simply this: Hj Mr. Ilennett wanted It kept a secret, j and 1 had been led like a child to obey H him In all things. He wanted It kept Ef a. secret hecauso his first wife had H been dead only three months when Eg lie mnrrlcd me, Ho had courted me, Ml followed me, pleaded for my love and flj faor even beforo the death of his Ep first wife. Rf "And yet wo never, despite the ap- K2 parent mystery of It all, made any Kjf Teal secret of our marriage. Wo were Eg "Mr. and Mrs. Bennett' on tho regis- ml ters of the hotels when we went trav- vB cling; wo were 'Mr. and Mrs. Bon- fffi nett' at every store where accounts jflB "were chnrgcil. I was known as Mr. a Bennett's wlfo In every lino of our Bk jf -dally domestic life. f 4L.. "The care I took of my husband Hi ' "before his death was such as entitles 9f me, even if I had been nothing more a wf 'X Laura Blggar. 'm than a nurse to him, to a great share 3B of his wealth. wt "Conspiracy. What noncenso. What M cruelty." |
