Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 37
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, November 13, 1902

BROTHERS SWAPPED WIVES.

       Louisville,Ky., Nov. 9--Magistrate Fegenbush has a knotty case on the docket for Wednesday.  Four persons are charged with bigamy.  An exchange of wives is concerned and it appears that brothers married sisters, James and William Eddington and Julia and Effie Eddington are the persons accused.  They live at South Park, a few miles south of Louisville.  Some years ago the Eddington brothers married sisters.  After a time it is alleged that each found he loved the other better and shift of wives was proposed.  Now, here is where the story differs.  The Eddingtons claimed to have been divorced.  The arresting officer says not.  Magisrate (sic) Fegenbush is to decided (sic) which is correct.

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