FULL TEXT: A marriage to a Chinese merchant at the Brooklyn
marriage license bureau in 1935, and two other marriages performed without the
convenience of a previous divorce are keeping Mrs. Florence Nickerson Milhouse
Richardson Pang Mack, 32, guessing about her fate today.
The much married Mrs. Mack was arraigned in Federal Court
yesterday on charges of illegally receiving Government allotment checks from a
navy seaman, her third mate on the matrimonial sea, with no divorce on the
records. Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter held her in $1,000 bail.
The three husbands are Bernard Richardson, whom she married
in Manhattan in 1931; Theodore Pang, the Chinese merchant, and Christian J.
Mack, a sailor now in the Pacific, with whom she tied the knot 18 months ago.
[“Score: 3 Mates, No Divorces, Plenty Trouble,” Brooklyn
Eagle (N. Y.), Jul. 27, 1945, p. 3]
FULL TEXT: Mrs. Florence Nickerson Milhouse Richardson Pang
Mack, 32, a firm believer in the marriage ceremony – though Mack, 32, a firm
believer in the marriage ceremony – though apparently not equally not equally
convinced of the necessity of a divorce between ceremonies – was arraigned in
Federal Court late yesterday.
The charge: Illegally receiving government allotment checks
from a Navy seaman, the mate of her third voyage into matrimony with nary a
divorce in the log.
~ Wed All Right, But –
Assistant U. S. Attorney KJ. Betram Friedman conceded that
the knot was duly tied 18 months ago in the Manhattan Marriage License Bureau
between herself and Christian J. Mack, 33, now in the Pacific.
But in her application, said Friedman, Florence failed to
mention Marriage No. 1, in the same bureau in April, 1931, to Bernard
Richardson, and Marriage No. 2, in the Brooklyn Marriage License Bureau, Dec.
12, 1935, to Theodore Pang, a Chinese merchant of 56 LaSalle St. in fact, the
prosecutor charged, she stated she had never been married.
The marriage to Pang was annulled when the Chinese learned
she was still legally wedded to Richardson, Friedman stated, but nothing was
done to dissolve the first marriage. This, he added, made her acceptance of
Mack’s allotments illegal.
Commissioner Garrett W. Cotter held her in $1,000 bail.
Mrs. Mack is a sister of Mrs. Joan Schlutter, 30, sentenced
to an intermediate prison term last Fall for stealing baby Barbara Anne Goggin
from New York Foundling Hospital. Mrs. Schumer pleaded she committed the crime while
intoxicated. She, too, was a seaman’s wife and had been married twice before,
but with divorces.
[“3 Marriages Make Allotment Snarl,” Daily News (New York,
N.Y.), Jul. 27, 1945, P. 4]
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For more cases of this type see: “War-Marriage Vampires”& “Allotment Annies"
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