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Show DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS DUE TO WED So Confusing Not to Have Been Told, She Says at Immigrant Port (By International Nosirs Sirvlct ) NEW YORK, Aug. 19. Nobodv told Mrs. Johanna Heridwlll, a comely voung widow. v hen she left her home ln the tulip fields Of Holland that she ! wns coming to America to become the j wife of Jacobus Noenc a prosperous citizen of Mlshawaka. Bid , and that I was the beginning of this comoib of i errors made tragic by the detention of the widow for a fortnight on Ellis' Island V hen the oung widow arrived on the steamship Noordam In August, bringing with her s little child b her former marriage, she was detained an, liable to become r public charge. She i gave testlmon- before ,i board of special spe-cial Inquiry that she had come to i America to Join her sister who lives! in Mishawaka "Do you know a man li.v the name of Jacobus Noons "" asked one of the1 Ir.yperiors. Yes. he is my sister's husband, "1 said the widow The inspectors were amazed at this for thev had affidavits from Jacobus j Noens forwarded from MishawakaJ that he intended to marry Mrs Hend-will. Hend-will. When this was explained to her. j Mrs rlendwlll was more amased than the Immigration inspectors. "Why, I haven't come here lo marry anybody," she said. 'The only man ofi the name of Noons 1 ever knew of' Is my sister's husband out there In j Indiana, There's some terrible mis-' tak. ' But "out there In Indiana" Jacobus Noens wasn't aware of any mistake 1 and he sent a notary public and lawyer law-yer all the way to New York to get his bride released Immigration officials offi-cials don t release brides tp vicarial bride prooms, and particularly did they' balk nt the lawyers proposlt ion, for Mrs. rlendwlll stfll said she knew of no brid'groom wading for her In thl", "home of the brave" The lawyer was r.,il 1.1. I. I r In. lion-, nrll l-i Inclrnr. ttons to send the bridegroom In person or the woman must be deported back '.. Holland j Finally Jacobus Noens arrived at 13111s Island and all was explained- "I am the brother Qf Paul Noons, and Paul Noens Is the one who is married mar-ried to this woman's sister." he said, 'I have heard mv brother and his wife tell for a long time of the unhfLpp life ,,f Mrs Hendwlll in Holland. I conferred with them about bringing Mis. Hendwlll over here and offered lo marry her. because I know her ! sister well and I know she is making mv brother's life very happy a.s his W!fe. I believed Mrs. Hendwill would malic me happy too I am more convinced con-vinced of it now that I have scen her t han I was before " ' I wonder they didn't tell me this before 1 said the blushing bride-to-' be, apologizing for the trouble she had Caused the immigration authorities. It was all so confusing, but I won't re-jplne re-jplne over mv detention here now that It Is all over with. It Will be a happy household brothers and sisters all married mar-ried up. But. why didn't Somebod tell me 1 was coming over to be marbled?" |