This week brought to a close one of the
most remarkable trials that has occurred
here for years. During the war, a young
man enlisted in Brooklyn and went to
the front with his regiment, leaving a wife
and two children behind him. After a
little time all trace of him was lost, and he
was supposed to have been killed in some
of the great battles in which the army was
then engaged. Ten long years the wife
mourned for her bold soldier boy, and at
last a gay widower, with a couple of chil
dren, became interested in her, proposed
for her hanid and was accepted; but pre
vious to the marriage the widow told her
prospective husband just exactly how she
was situated. The gentleman declared
himself perfectly satisfied and married
her. Ten years of wedded bliss sped by
and three children were born to thein,
when one day the last husband horrified
his wife by informing her that her first
husband was not only alive, but was at that
moment actually living in .the city of
Brooklyn with another wife and was the
father of several childin. The news
nearly crazed her till she was confronted
with her alleged husband, when she swore
that was not the man to whom she had
been married, and more than that, she had
never seen him before. The presumptive
husband was equally positive that he had
never seen his presumptive wife; he had
not only never seen her, he did not know
her, and would not recognize her from a
side of sole leather if he met her in the
street. Notwithstanding this, however, on
the trial before a referee, there were a
number of people swore positively that
they were well acquainted with the soldier
boy, and that he was the indentical individ
ual that husband No. 2 asserted he was.
