BRIDE OF 13 DESERTED.
CRIES FOR HER DOLLS. i A tblrteen-year-old bride of three | months, wuo took her dolls with her when I she went to live with her young husband, caused his arrest on charges of wife desertion at Dcs Moines, Indiana. Cecil Giyian and John Noble were wed, witb the consent of the bride's parents, on September 12. Tbe girl was thirteen years old and the bridegroom twenty-three. After the marriage Noble took his yonng wife to live with his parents. There she was treated unkindly, she tearfully declared, and was finally ordered from the , bouse by her mother-in-law. ■'I was afraid they would hurt mc, and I was in a hurry to go home to my mother." she said. "So I Just packed my i clothes in a Email black bag. There was I no room for my two dolls, so I had to leave them. I'm going back after them, because J I want them. I was so disappointed over leaving my dolls that I cried all the way home on tbe car."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 15
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