Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1914 — ETHEL SMITH IS MARRIED [ARTICLE]

ETHEL SMITH IS MARRIED

Tells Parents Sacrifice of Billy Rugh and Former Romance Are Forgotten.

Chicago.—Miss Ethel Smith of Gary, Ind., for whom Billy Rugh, a crippled newsboy, who was not acquainted with her, gave up his life, is the principal figure in a new romance. She eloped to Chicago with Leon M. Cline, a clerk in a cigar store in Gary. They obtained a license and were married by a justice of the peace. This romance marked the close of another — one which was in full bloom when the explosion of a gasoline tank on a motorcycle owned by Ray Robert burned her body so severely that her life was despaired of for some time. She was saved only by extensive grafting of skin taken from the amputated crippled leg of Billy Rugh, who died soon afterward of pneumonia and the shock of the operation. Her marriage did not please her parents when she told them. She came'out of a hospital only Christmas day after a second operation. Her explanation is that the accident, the tragedy of Billy and Robert are to be of the past and forgotten.

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