MARRIASE AND FRAUD

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 19 December 1913, Page 5

MARRIASE AND FRAUD

MATRIMONIAL BUREAU'S ; MISDOINGS.

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYBIGHT* NEW YORK, Dec. 18. There were extraordinary revelations -4it Indianapolis in the , prosecution of -Martin Farris, his wife and two daughters, who are accused of using the ■mails to defraud by operating a matrimonial bureau.

Farriee pleaded guilty. He admitted "that one daughter wrote letters to men who wished to marry her. The father "then warned away the, prospective _Fiye men arrived at their fiancee's 'home simultaneously, while 50 were at the same time engaged to •Louise Farris. Louise succeeded in

g&ting large sums of gold, diamonds, ;ahd bracelets from would-be wooers. 'One victim was stated to be a 'welt-

"known pugilist. Whenever gifts arrived at the Farris' home a general !-scramble' ensued. Whoever succeeded in grabbing a package kept the con- . -tents. ■' - ■

. -iThe recital kept the court in laughter throughput.