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OLIVE ADELE STERNAMAN
Mrs. Sternaman Wants a Divorce
[Welland Tribune, 19 January 1900]
On Friday afternoon of last week a lady and a youth came across on the dummy, and made inquiries as to where the squire lived. The lady proved to be Mrs. Olive Adele Sternaman, who won such notoriety a few years ago, when tried for the alleged poisoning of her husband. Thinking, as is often the case, that they were looking for a marriage license, the courteous conductor directed them to the place where one could be obtained. Judge of the surprise of the issuer when the lady asked for information as to how she could obtain a separation from her present husband. He asked her what brought her here. She stated that she was advised by Judge Murphy of Buffalo to start proceedings for a divorce in Canada, where she had been married. The issuer asked to see her marriage certificate. The certificate had been issued at Niagara Falls, Ont. The contracting parties were Frank Gutenberg and Olive Adele Sternaman. He looked at the lady before him, then back at the certificate, and was dumbfounded, for the moment before he asked: “Are you Mrs. Sternaman?” She smilingly replied, “Yes,” and a tear dropped from her eye. He remarked that she ought to be by this time fully prepared as to how to get through the world, as she had had experience enough. He then advised her to go to the P.M. He would certainly attend to her case and give her all information required, which he did. Mrs. Sternaman alleges that her present husband is a bigamist, with other wife and two children. She wanted a divorce, and to prosecute her husband as a bigamist. The P.M. made out the necessary papers. Mrs. Sternaman threatens to prosecute her husband.
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