Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — MRS. RUTH GILMORE POSSIN RETURNS TO RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

MRS. RUTH GILMORE POSSIN RETURNS TO RENSSELAER.

Says Possin Used-Undue Influence in Getting Her to Marry Him—Will Again Live Here. Mrs. Ruth Gilmore Possin came to Rensselaer from Kirklin Saturday, and is again at the home of Attorney and Mrs. E. P. Honan, where she will probably remain. This is the home in which she was employed before she married Possin. She wishes to have it understood that although she left Rensselaer with Gossie Brown, she had no intention of living with him, and simply took advantage, of his offer to go to his brother’s home and thus escape from Possin, whom «she had married the day before, but whom she had determined not to live with. Since she has been at the home of Bernice Brown, her sweetheart Gossie has not been there and she asks complete vindication from the imputation cast upon her character by the rumor that they have been together.

Mrs. Possin alleges that Paul Possin, whom she met for the first time Sunday, Aug. 6th, worked upon her sympathy for his three children and used every influence he could to persuade her to marry him. She says that she did not. want to marry him, but did not have the power to refuse, and that she married him both against her judgment and her desire. She indicates that his power over her was little short of hypnotic. After they were married she determined to escape from him as soon as she could, and she came to Rensselaer the' following day with a firm determination not to go back to him. Her sweetheart, Gossie Brown, was soon with her, but she did not confide the secret of her marriage to him, and she denied it to Mr. and Mrs. Honan, but she feared they would try to persuade her to return to him. Realizing that the truth about her marriage would soon reach Rensselaer she accepted Gossie’s offer to go to his brother’s home, Where they were very good to her. She decided last week to return to Mrs. Honan’s, where she knew she would find encouragement, and she will make her home there, working as she did before she went away.