Brides to Same Man Celebrate Divorce From 'Lothario,' Feb. 9, 1921

Obtaining a divorce for two women from the same man in the same day in civil court here Monday was the record of Frank W. Oor and E.B. Bridges, young lawyers who have just been licensed to practice, and it is believed to constitute the only record of its kind in the United States.

Bessie Knox Wellman and Della Scott Wellman, wives of Roy Wellman, a negro Lothario, were the plaintiffs. They recently discovered that both were entitled to divorces from Wellman. Though they had known each other previously, neither knew until a short while before the case was called in court that they were the victims of a man who had been married before. They both sought freedom from the matrimonial yoke on other grounds than that the erring Roy had another wife. Their complaint was that he was to all appearances trying to get another when they imagined they were good enough for him.

Both plaintiffs were in court, and when their petitions for divorce had been granted they went to dinner together and celebrated their freedom from the love-honor-and-obey stuff by becoming warm personal friends—or companions in misery.

So far as any lawyer at the local bar could recall, there is no case exactly similar to it on record.

From the Charlotte News, Wednesday Afternoon, February 9, 1921