Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1912 — TRUTHFUL; SHE FAILS TO WED [ARTICLE]

TRUTHFUL; SHE FAILS TO WED

Young Woman Wouldn’t Swear to Age of Which Bhe Was Doubtful. St. Louis.—Truth was stronger than Cupid at Clayton, the St. Louis county Gretna Green, the other day. Miss Ida Lorenz and John F. Osborn, both of O’Fallon, Ill., ( went there to get a marriage license. Both seemed to be of legal age, and Deputy Recorder Aiders filed out the papers, “Now, as a matter of form, you will have to swear to your ages,” said he. The young woman seemed emberrassed. “I can’t swear that -I am eighteen, though I believe I am,” she said. “My parents died when I was a baby and I have no birth certificate.” Though Osborn pleaded with her, Mias Lorenz could not be induced even to swear that to the beat of her knowledge and .belief she was of legal age. Sbe and Osborn departed without the license. I