Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1914 — Curious Customs Are Learned by a New Arrival [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Curious Customs Are Learned by a New Arrival

CLEVELAND, OHIO. —While fresh from the province of Galatia and able to speak only a few words of English, a twenty-four-year-old man told Police Prosecutor Samuel H. Sllbert he had been inveigled into a marriage by a

woman of thirty-eight a short time after his arrival in Cleveland a year ago. “She met me on the street tbo day I arrived in Cleveland,” the map told the “She induced me to walk with her to her home. "The next day very early she came to my home. She told me of a peculiar custom regarding marriage ip this country. “ ‘When a single man walks with a woman to her home in America he

Is forced by custom to marry her,’ she told me. t thought this was funny. But she took me to the place where we got a marriage license, and we were married In a short time.” The man appealed to Prosecutor Silbert for protection from his wife. His wedded life, he said, had been spent dodging dishes and other missiles. Specifically, a brick, he charged, she hurled at him had struck him on the bead, inflicting a deep wound. Prosecutor Silbert took out a warrant for the woman’s arrest on a charge of assault and battery. “The trouble began soon after our marriage,” the man told Prosecutor Silbert “First, I learned she had been married before and was divorced. Then she insisted Bhe be known under her maiden name, saying mine was too long and was too bard to spell and pronounce. She said this was another American custom.” . s