Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1914 — Substitute for Young Bride Fined for Forgery [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Substitute for Young Bride Fined for Forgery

NEWPORT, R. I.—ls Hattie Belmar of this city ever gets another chance to act as a substitute for a blushing bride who is too young to get a mar-' riage license It is more than likely that before accepting the position she will

demand to be introduced to bride. It is not by any means certain that she will take the job at all, but if the bride is so constructed that Miss Belmar’s clothes do not fit her she will have to look elsewhere for a substitute, for Miss Belmar won’t even discuss the proposal. As a matter of fact, she was sent to jail. When Albert E. Evans, a cook at the naval station, decided to marry Alfreda .Guimond and told her so he was looking into her eyes. When he

considered her from afar and noted her size and youthful appearance he felt that there was no chance of getting a license to marry. She Is only seventeen and doesn’t show her age. So he spoke to Hattie Belmar about it, and she said she would gladly get a license to be used by the youthful bride. ' They got it Albert thanked Hattie and married Alfreds. Alfreda’s parents were amazed and went to Rev. Arthur Crane, who had performed the qpremony, to demand an explanation. All that he knew was that there had been a license and everything looked all right. . Then the parents moved on the city hall. The city clerk, with argument,, said that he had never given a license to any seventeen-year-old girl and would like to see her. Alfreda, the bride, got the clothes of Hattie, the substitute, to deceive the city clerk. The bride is .short, the substitute Is tall, and the clothes looked as if they had been thrown on the bride from an upper window. City clerk wise; parents angry; police alert; bridegroom garrulous; substitute arrested.* Wheri Miss Belmar was arraigned In court, charged with forging the license, she was fined sls, with costs of $2.60. She remarked that she considered that sum as a very tidy one and had no Idea where she could get It handily. So the bridegroom went calling on friends to make up enough to smooth over the entire wedding. z