MARRIED "TO OBLIGE."

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 15 September 1911, Page 2

MARRIED "TO OBLIGE."

THE DEPUTY BRIDEGROOM.

The Court of Common Pleas at Cinciuati heard on July 27 a petition for annulment of the strange marriage of Mrs Dolores Cameron Owens, a daughter of a University professor, and Malcolm W.,Owens, a young •gentleman of independent fortune. Both husband and wife joined in the petition, which was granted. According to the testimony of Mr Owens, he married "just to be'obliging." He made the acquaintance of the bride and her mother last summer in Jersey City, whither they had journeyed for the celebration of the daughter's intended marriage with a surgeon of the United) States Navy. Mrs Owens explained to the court that the intended bridegroom came in an intoxicated condition and declared, "I am going on a voyage and there will be no wedding till my ship comes back." While mother and daughter were thus in perplexity Mr Owens kind' ly suggested that he should) become bridegroom instead of the surgeon. "We accepted the offer," said Mrs Owens, "because all our neighbors were aware that Dolores had gone, to New Jersey to be married, and we knew they would be dissatisfied if she returned unmarried."

The couple, she added, never lived) together. The judge annulled the marriage, which, the evidence sliowed, excited the severe disapproval of the neighbors whom it was designed to gratify.