JILTED GIRL'S REVENGE.

Northern Advocate, 2 September 1913, Page 3

JILTED GIRL'S REVENGE.

WOOED AND WON HER RIVAL.

An eighteen-year-ola girl, Miss Jessie Mclntyre, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has revenged herself on a man who jilted her by dressing as a man and wooing the girl to whom her lover had transferred his attentions. The story was told at Wheeling Police Court. According to the evidence of Miss Mclntyre's fiancee, a prosperous business man named Harry Pendleton, suddenly informed her, after two years of courtship, that he intended to marry another girl. Miss Mclntyre discovered her rival in the person of Miss Aiken, an attractive girl living in Bridgeport, in Ohio, across the river from Wheeling. Then, in spite of protests from her parents, she cut her hair short, and donning a suit of clothes belonging to her brother, went to Bridgeport, and was introduced to Miss Aiken, who promptly fell head over heels lin love with the handsome stranger. Miss JVtclntyre, masquerading as Mr Laurence Dessing, proved a devoted lover, paying daily visits to Miss Aiken's home. One Sunday evening the couple were sitting affectionately in the porch at Miss Aiken's residence, when ivir Pendleton appeared. Furiously he demanded an explanation. Miss Aiken confessed her love for "Laurence," and angrily dismissed Mr Pendleton, declaring that she ' never wished to see him again. Two days later Miss Aiken, while shopping in Wheeling, met Miss Mc- ! Intyre, dressed again as a girl, and was gleefully informed of the trick played. A fight resulted, and the girls were separated by the police and taken into custody. The magistrate dismissed them with a warning, amid laughter in court.