The Gazette

THE FIRST MRS. MARCUS GARVEY
Arrives from the British West Indies
While Garvey Fights That
Five-Year Sentence.

NEW YORK CITY.-The affairs
of Marcus Garvey grow more and
more entangled as the days go by.
Not only is he confronted with the
possibility of going to Leavenworth,
Kan., to serve the five-year sentence
imposed by Judge Julian W. Mack in
June 1923, which is scheduled for
the final arguments in the U. S.
Court of Appeals within a few days,
but his first wife, Mrs. Amy Ash-
wood Garvey, has come from Kings-
ton, Jamaica, B. W. I., to sue for di-
vorce, charging adultery. Mrs. Gar-
vey, who is 28, states that she met
Mr. Garvey in Jamaica, in 1914.
They were friendly and often to-
gether until 1919, when they were
married here. The week of her mar-
riage and at the time when the U.
N. I. A. was first coming into public
notice, Mrs. Garvey says she made
Miss Amy Jacques Mr. Garvey's pri-
vate secretary. This was Mr. Gar-
vey's first introduction to his second
wife, according to the first one. Mr.
Garvey and his first wife were to-
gether only a few months before a
rift came, it is alleged. In 1922, Mr.
Garvey claims he secured a divorce
from his first wife, who was then in
England, and married the present
Mrs. Garvey, who is also 28 years old.
Now Mrs. Garvey, the first, is back
from abroad and is suing for divorce,
saying that she wants to get married
again and she wants her freedom be-
fore Garvey goes to federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan., to serve his five
years' sentence. She claims Garvey
could not have gotten a divorce as
she knew nothing of the proceed-
ings.