Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — TROUBLE FOLLOWS MARRIAGE; WOMAN THREATENS STUDENT. [ARTICLE]

TROUBLE FOLLOWS MARRIAGE; WOMAN THREATENS STUDENT.

Indiana University Man, Just Wedded, May Be Prosecuted Under Breach Of Promise Judgment.

Bloomington, Ind., July 19.—Additional troubles seem to be in store for Richard A. Johnson, the Indiana University student of Nappanee, Elkhart county, who was married Monday nightßMiss Pauline Virginia Mcßea aftef mans) difficulties, as he is now threatened with a suit to collect a SI,OOO judgment obtained against him by Miss Frankie Blllmyer, a pretty dark-eyed Bloomington girl. Johnson kept company with Miss Blllmyer last summer after making her acquaintance at an open-air theatre. She says he promised to

marry her and that the ceremony was to have taken place last September. She says she had her trosseau made and was all ready for the event, when, she says, Johnson informed her he could npt marry her. She instituted a SIO,OOO breach of promise suit against Johnson and filed it in Elkhart county. ■’ , He did not employ an attorney and the judgment was taken against him by default. Johnson said today he is not worried about the judgment, as he has no property in his own* name. It is said that his mother is well to do, however, and that Johnson is the only child.'

After learning;Johnson had married Miss Mcßea, Miss Billmyer’s father, C. P. Blllmyer, attempted to find C. E. Mcßea, of Mayfield, Ky., father of Mrs. Johnson, and tell him of the suit and judgment, but Mcßea had given parental forgiveness and departed for his home without Billmyer getting the interview. Johnson said that he had in formed his wife of the suit before he married her. He declared thafhe had never loved Miss Billmyer and had no intention of ever marrying her. He and his bride are still here and Johnson will be graduated with the ’l2 class. He expects to teach thi» fall in the Nappanee schools and is said to stand high in his classes. Miss Billmyer’s parents, when seen today, said that they expect to push the suit for the collection of the judgment against Johnson.