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Show FAINTS AT MEETING V "DEAD" HUSBAND Dramatic Scene When Woman, Remarried, Meets Man Supposed Sup-posed Killed in War. Staunton, Mass. Mrs. Mary Etta Cleary Leonard-Chartler, thirty-six and pretty, supposed war widow, bride of two months, was strolling along the street on the arm of Victor F. Chartler of Jewett, Conn., her new husbnnd, when she suddenly stood rigid In her tracks. Then with a glad cry of "my husband," she broke from Chartler's arm rushed up on Edgar Nelson Leonard, discharged soldier, showered him with kisses, then fell In a faint at his feet. This dramatic denouement of a wartime war-time marital mlxup will have Its sequel se-quel here when Mrs. Leonard-Chartler will appear In First District court on the arm of husband No. 1 to answer to a charge of bigamy brought by husband hus-band No. 2. Mrs. Leonard-Chartler, deliriously happy at being reunited with the husband hus-band she supposed resting beneath a Showrd Him With Kisses. white cross in the American cemetery at Itomagne, France, readily adm'ta that she has two husbands, but hopes the cqjirt can find some way out of her difficulty. Since the moment she came upon ber first husband, with whom she lived happily for 12 yesre before she tearfully saw him oil for France, she bss refused to see Victor Chartler and has taken up her residence In the home of Leonard's mother. Chartler says his supposed wife told him frankly frank-ly that she loved Leonard best and would live with him. He visited the District court clerk and swore to a warrant, which was served on Mrs. Leonard-Chartler. |