Divorce Is Obtained by Grace E. Miller

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DIVORCE IS OBTAINED BY GRACE E. MILLER Former Eutaw Avenue Resident Gets Freedom After Bigamist's Conviction Mrs. Grace E. Miller, formerly of 228 Eutaw avenue, has been granted a final decree of divorce from George Earl Miller, formerly employed in the offices of the RCA Victor Company, Inc. The decree was granted May 5 by the New Jersey court of chancery. The suit was instituted March 27, 1931. Subsequently, Miller was adjudicated in contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of Vice Chancellor Edmund B. Leaming directing the payment of alimony. Shortly after the filing of the divorce suit, Miller was charged with bigamy by his wife, and extradition proceedings were taken by the Pennsylvania authorities. On October 23, 1931, Miller was removed from the Camden county jail to the Delaware county jail at Media, pending trial. At the trial, Miller denied he had ever been married to Grace E. Miller, but the testimony showed that they were not only legally married November 24, 1924, but for many years lived together in legal matrimony in Camden. The proofs further showed that on March 7, 1931, Miller went through a marriage ceremony before a magistrate near Media, with Jean Lukoff, then of 830 Haddon avenue, this city, and with whom he subsequently lived as man and wife at 141 North Thirty-fourth street and later at the Haddon avenue address. A petit jury found Miller guilty of bigamy on January 8, this year. The judge at Media sentenced Miller to no less than one year and not more than two years in jail and fined him $500. Mrs. Miller was represented in her divorce suit by Marshal H. Diverty, of this city.

Former Eutaw Avenue Resident Gets Freedom After Bigamist's Conviction

Mrs. Grace E. Miller, formerly of 228 Eutaw avenue, has been granted a final decree of divorce from George Earl Miller, formerly employed in the offices of the RCA Victor Company, Inc.

The decree was granted May 5 by the New Jersey court of chancery. The suit was instituted March 27, 1931. Subsequently, Miller was adjudicated in contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of Vice Chancellor Edmund B. Leaming directing the payment of alimony.

Shortly after the filing of the divorce suit, Miller was charged with bigamy by his wife, and extradition proceedings were taken by the Pennsylvania authorities. On October 23, 1931, Miller was removed from the Camden county jail to the Delaware county jail at Media, pending trial. At the trial, Miller denied he had ever been married to Grace E. Miller, but the testimony showed that they were not only legally married November 24, 1924, but for many years lived together in legal matrimony in Camden.

The proofs further showed that on March 7, 1931, Miller went through a marriage ceremony before a magistrate near Media, with Jean Lukoff, then of 830 Haddon avenue, this city, and with whom he subsequently lived as man and wife at 141 North Thirty-fourth street and later at the Haddon avenue address.

A petit jury found Miller guilty of bigamy on January 8, this year. The judge at Media sentenced Miller to no less than one year and not more than two years in jail and fined him $500.

Mrs. Miller was represented in her divorce suit by Marshal H. Diverty, of this city.