Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1910 — HAMMOND MARRIAGE DENIED BY PRINCIPALS. [ARTICLE]

HAMMOND MARRIAGE DENIED BY PRINCIPALS.

Couple Married in Rensselaer Denied It to Friends and Hammond Times Prints Good Story. The marriage in Rensselaer last Tuesday, of Henry Paul Sartorious and Miss Hazel E. Webb, of Hammond, was the subject of an interesting newspaper article published in the Hammond Times last Thursday. The Times reporter saw the article in the Evening Republican and called the principals to have it verified. Much to his surprise they both denied that they had been married, and claimed that they were the victims of a joke, which some of their friends had worked on them. But the Times reporter was not to be put off and he called Rensselaer people by telephone to verify the story. The Times then printed the following article: Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Sartorious (nee Miss Hazel Webb), a well known couple of this city, gave their friends the slip this week and were married in Rensselaer by a justice of the peace on Tuesday. There is a good deal of mystery attached to the culmination of the romance, for both bride and groom deny absolutely and unequivocally that they were married. They brand the story as a lie, as also do some of their relatives. Yet the preponderance of the evidence is indisputable that they were legally wedded. Mr. Sartorious denounced the story as a fabrication and Mrs. Sartorious declared with emphasis that she was not married. However, the interviews with the principals speak for themselves, and the reader is left to draw his own conclusion. (By Henry P, Sartorious.) “The whole matter is a joke—just a few friends had it published—there is absolutely no truth in the statement at all. I was not married, ft the judge says I was married, he tells an untruth.” Mr. Sartorious was interviewed at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Sartorious, 1938 Mohawk street, Chicago. (By Mrs. H. P. Sartorious.) “We were not married. When we get ready to give the news, we will make a formal announcement. There must be somebody else of the same name. It is not true that I am married, and I have been very much annoyed. I am going to Rensselaer on Saturday to find out about it, If they say I am married, it is a lie.” Mrs. Sartorious was interviewed at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Webb, 138 Carroll street, Hammond. (Squire Schuyler Irwin, Justice of the Peace.) “Certainly, I married Henry P. Sartorious and Miss Hazel Webb, of Hammond. The ceremony took place on Tuesday afternoon. Why should I deny it? I wasn’t asked to keep it quiet.” Squire Irwin was interviewed in his office in Rensselaer. (By C. C. Warner, County Clerk of Jasper County.) “Mr. Sartorious and Miss Hazel Webb got a license in my office on Tuesday and were married by Squire Irwin right here. I don’t know why they should deny it, for I don’t want to be called a long-distance liar.” Mr. Warner was interviewed in -the county clerk’s office in Rensselaer this afternoon. (By Miss Vera Parker, Deputy County Clerk of Jasper County.) “Yes, I gave Mr. Sartorious, who was short, rather dark and used evidently to outdoor life, a license to wed Miss Webb, blue eyes and fair hair, on Tuesday afternoon. There was no joke about it. They were married all right. I am the deputy county clerk of Jasper county.” Miss Parker was interviewed in the county clerk’s office at the Rensselaer court house. (George Healey, Editor Rensselaer Be. pnllcan.) "Why, there can be no doubt about it at all. Of course the couple were married. I obtained the information in the regular channels. Squire Irwin, who performed the ceremony, told me about it, and the license return is on record at the court house. No one asked me to publish the story.” The newspaper editor was interviewed in the Republican office in Rensselaer this afternoon. AM of which goes to show that the