FULL TEXT: A 25-year-old former Dayton woman who “didn’t
realize I had to divorce one husband before I married another” was given a
year's probation in U. S. District Court Monday.
Doris Warner Knox, who gave her present address as
Cleveland, but who formerly lived at 324 Sprague st., pleaded guilty before
Judge Robert R. Nevin to violating the Serviceman's Dependents Allowance act.
The government had charged her with receiving a $100
allotment check on May 1, 1945, as the wife of Daniel C. Moten, although she
was not divorced from her first husband, Howard Knox.
Mrs. Knox, a night club entertainer, told newsmen she had
married Knox in Georgia in 1938. After he entered the service in 1943, she
began to receive allotment checks as his wife. In December of 1944, she said,
she met and married Fred Rhine, a Seabee, on leave in Gaston, Ala.
One hour after the marriage, Rhine returned to his outfit in
California, she recalled. She added she has not heard from him since.
Then in February of 1945, her story continued, she married
Moten in Newman, Ga., and in May received a $100 allotment check for the months
of February and March.
"I didn't know I was doing wrong," Mrs. Knox said.
"I thought that it was all right to get married and then get a divorce
from the previous husband later."
Mrs. Knox was arrested by-federal agents in Youngstown on
June 5. She has been held in the Columbus city prison.
[“Ignorance Of the Law Gets Her 3 Husbands In 7 Years,”
Dayton Daily News (Oh.), Jun. 16, 1947, p. 17]
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