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Show GOT MARRIED AND DID NOT KNOW IT CHICAGO. June C The marriage problem camo into more than the usual Junetlrac prominence hero today, to-day, whon, while one Judge was announcing an-nouncing that in his opinion "many thousands of weddings of the past were void, another was hearing llow a man who applied for a peddler's 11-censo 11-censo was given a marriago permit Instead, In-stead, and was married before he know what was going on. Municipal Judge Stewart throw consternation con-sternation into the thousands of new homes that have been erected through the marriage parlor conducted In the county building by Justice of the Peace William Stacey of Evanston, who has been criticised In connection with child marriages and was ousted from the bulldlive. Tho judgo gave an opinion from the bench that Stacey had no legal right to marry any one in Chicago, as Justices were abolished in the city in 1003. At the same time Philip FIshmin was telling Judge Cooper how he was married without knowing It; he wanted want-ed tho marriage dissolved. He said he inquired of a clork in the county clerk's ofllce for a peddler's license, With him was a young woman, a friend. lie was banded a slip of paper, pa-per, he said, and taken with the girl to Justlco Stacey 'b parlor. He told the court he thought ho was swearing to something on tho permit, when-he and tho girl said the customary "I do." laler be found ho had a wife. They tried to make the best of it, ho said, but it was not a success in tho o:r of It trlnl |