Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1912 — Married Old Man For Love [ARTICLE]

Married Old Man For Love

Young Bride of tiekd of United Wireless, 67 Years Old, Says Bhe Did Not Wed for Money. New York.—lt was for love and not for money that pretty 18-year-oid Stella Lewis married Christopher Columbus Wilson, the 67-yeahr-old head of the United Wireless company, she informed United States Commissioner Alexander. Mrs. Wilson, who was married the day her husband was In dieted for. using the mails to defraud, was a witness in the bankruptcy proceedings to ascertain If Wilson had concealed any of the (1.500,000 be is supposed to have obtained from the sale of United Wireless stock. He is to be brought from Atlanta, where he is now serving a three years’ sentence, to testify Dec. 22. Ai ... Mrs. Wilson, who had been a • stenographer for the United Wireless, enlightened the commissioner and Saul S. Myers, attorney for the receiver. as to why she bad married, but she did not furnish information as to whether or not her husband had

any assets lying around that a receiver in bankruptcy could get hold of. According to her testimony It would have been ipore profitable for her If she had remained with her notebook, pencil and typewriter instead of marrying a man who, at of the wedding, was supposed to be worth millions. The marriage came at the time the government was looking, for Miss Lewis to use her as a witness against the Wireless heads at the trial. It is the belief of the creditors of the Wireless company that Wilson has concealed about (750,000. One question of Attorney Myers showed It was hlB oplfiion that Wilson, prior to bis arrest In the summer of 1910, made a trip to Europe and deposited In banks over there about (450.000 This was news to Mrs. Wilson, she said. She last saw her husband at Atlanta about three weeks ago. Sbe is now residing witb ber parents at 605 West 115th street, and said .sbe was subsisting on their bounty, as all the money her husband had given her

since ' be was taken to prison. (550, had been expended. Mrs Wilson said tb« only property her husband bad at the time sbe married him was a house at Long Beach. He was, offered (20,000 for It, but ft was assigned to his attorneys In payment of tbelr fees for defending him. She said she believed John B. Stanchfield received (40,000 for conducting Wilson’s defense.