FULL TEXT: A 21-year-old girl arrested in Philadelphia for
receiving servicemen’s allotment checks from two soldiers at the same time, is
a former resident of this city, The Tribune has learned.
She is Mary Lou Llewelyn, a bank cashier who resides on 34th
St. Her lawyer said she originally was from Scranton, The Associated Press
reported.
Mary Lou was taken into custody by FBI agents. They
testified that she married a South Dakota soldier Feb. 4, 1944, and received an
allotment from him until he was discharged in September, 1945.
On October, 1944, according to the FBI, she married a San
Pedro, Calif., servicemen without obtaining a divorce from her first husband.
She drew allotments from her second husband until he was discharged in
November, 1945. She gave birth to a daughter in February, 1945, according, to
testimony.
Mary Lou’s attorney, Maurice Marmon, explained to Magistrate
John Morlock that the girl is a “victim of circumstances.”
He said Mary Lou received divorce papers in a suit
instituted by her first husband before she married the second. Mary Lou thought
the papers were final and that her first marriage was dissolved, the attorney
claimed.
The second husband didn’t return to Mary Lou after he was
discharged and the layer believes he also has filed suit for divorce.
Mary Lou was directed to refund $1,080 to the Government and
was released under $300 bail for Court. She earns $35 weekly and when asked how
she would make restitution, replied she did not know “but I guess I’ll find a
way.”
The Tribune, though telephone calls to Philadelphia
Saturday, endeavored to identify the girl further, but was unsuccessful.
[“Report Woman Who Weds GIs Former Resident,” The Scranton
Tribune (Pa.), Aug. 26, 1946, p. 3]
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For more cases of this type see: “War-Marriage Vampires”& “Allotment Annies"
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