A GIRL SOLD INTO WEDLOCK.
A oase now belore the Court of Errors and Appeal has some novel features, says a Newark (N. J.) correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer. It shows the sale of a young girl for monetary consideration toanaged lover. Emma Mellick 18 the plaintiff. Her maidrn name was Emma Keitler, and her father was a canal -boat captain, living at Phillipsburg. Emma was the prettiest girl in town. Heary W. Mellick was 65 years old, and well-to-do. He saw Emma and fell in. love with her. The 18-year-old girl accepted hie attentions presents and laughed at her suitor. Her parentß, it appears, looked at the matter more seriously, and acoording to Emma's story, they approved of an offer that Emma should become Mellick's wife when she was 19 in consideration of a mortgage for 5000 dollare of some property, a house and a lot at New Village, and 500 dollars in caßh. The wedding day was April 5, 1886, and the ceremony was performed in a lawyer's office in Easton, Pa. The bride held in her hand, in lieu ci & bouquet, the deed and assignment of the mortgage, and a minister married them. The couple went to live afc New Village. In August the mortgagee wanted to pay interest on the mortgage. Emma was asked to produce the bond to have the interest endorsed en it, and she declined. Finally she accompanied her husband to the mortgagee's house and the receipt was written on the bond. Then, she charges, her husband turned his back on her, slipped the bond in his pocket, and bonded her an old cancelled bond. She demanded her bond, and Melliok walked out of the house. The wife then made inquiry and found that two weeks before the marriage he had turned over to his son Herman the property he had appareatly conveyed to her &b part of the price of her afleotions. In 1890 she began a forecloseure suit, Mellick having died, and asked the Court to declare the assignment to Herman Melliok fraudulent. Vice-Ohanoellor Pitney held that the as. signment waa invalidated by fraud, and the oase is now heard oa appeal from, his decision.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 242, 12 October 1891, Page 2
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364A GIRL SOLD INTO WEDLOCK. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 242, 12 October 1891, Page 2
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