The Bamberg Herald

Thirty Times Wed,
New York, Dec. 21. There is a couple in this city who have been married so many times that they have probably lost count, and every minister who smiled over them and bade them good fortune and success is the possessor of a $20 check, for which he gave $10 in change. The checks were bad.
It is an entirely new swindle and it apparently worked with ease, for the police have complaints from nearly 30 ministers, who did not for a moment doubt the happy couple.
Rev. W. F. Kerney, then of 33 West Twenty-sixth street, was the first clergyman the police heard from. On October 23 there called on him a young man, who said he was Eugene Keller, of 247 West Thirty-sixth street, and a young woman who seemed very shy and upon whom Mr. Kerney beamed with corresponding benevolence. They were in a great hurry and were united with all reasonable speed.
Mr. Kerney took a $20 check with alacrity, and when he came back with the change he found the couple extricating themselves from an embrace that brought blushes to the cheeks of the bride. They were very much in love, he thought, and as they went down the steps and left him with the check in his hand, the clergyman meditated on what makes the world go round and went slowly back to his study.