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From:http://www.waltermartin.org/scient.html
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> On Hubbard:
>
> His personal qualifications as a religious leader were everything but
> saintly. His first two marriages were disastrous. His second wife, Sara
> Northrup Hubbard, sued him for divorce on April 23, 1951, in Los Angeles
> County Superior Court. The microfilm copy of that case mysteriously
> vanished from the court records. However, an industrious St. Petersburg
> Times newspaper reporter found the original in storage at the courthouse.
> It was a twenty-eight page complaint to dissolve their Chestertown,
> Maryland, marriage of August 10, 1946. This was a bigamous marriage for
> Mr. Hubbard. He pretended to be a bachelor to Miss Northrup, yet he had
> not divorced his first wife, Margaret Grubb Hubbard. His first marriage
> was not legally dissolved Ā until over one year after his second marriage.
> His second wife's 1951 Ā divorce allegations contained more than bigamy
> charges. She claimed Ā sleep deprivation, beatings, strangulation,
> kidnapping of their child and
> fleeing to Cuba, and Ron counseling her to commit suicide, "if she ...
