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Show 50 DROI SHE COULD JOT REMEMBER BEIIG MARRIED Married in Ogden while in a state of alcoholic' amnesia or just plain be-fuddlemcnt, be-fuddlemcnt, as the(result of. a riotous night with two girl companions and three soldiers, all from Salt Lake, is the main thread in a sensational story told 'yesterday by Mrs. Esther Alstadt in. Judgo J. Louis ' Brown's court in Salt Lake", where she is asking to have the marriage annulled. And Mrs. Al- MiiUl, W clUU U1U1U UJIUCI U111H,) IU night's entertainment, says she does not know whether she was married, but that her, soldier hysband told her she was nextday. Another good reason rea-son advanced for the annulment of the marriage is that Mrs. Alstadt is not yet legally divorced from a former husband, the interlocutory decree not becoming final until February 7, 1918. She was divorced, she stated, August 7, 1917. Mrs. Alstndt's tale as told in court indicates that the circumstances surrounding the affairs are extremely hazy in her mind. According to the story, a party was made up in Salt Lake, including her-j her-j self, two other girls and tnree soldiers, sol-diers, which came to Ogden, October 2G, 1917. Mrs. Alstadt said she was not in the habit of becoming Intoxicated Intoxi-cated but did so on this night. She remembered re-membered coming here, she said, but could not recall a marriage ceremony. She stated that the soldier took out a marriage license for himself and her, giving her name as Esther Mitchell arid that, when they returned to Salt -Lake, ho produced the license and the marriage certificate to show they were married. The name Esther Mitchell was on the license and certificate, cer-tificate, she said, with that of George F. Alstadt. On the stand she said, however, that her name was not Mitchell but Phebey. Judge Brown stated . that, though the evidence presented warranted an annulment of the marriage, he would prefer to have further proof that the couple were married in Ogden beforo annulling the marriage. 00 |