Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1915 — COULDN’T WED; ADOPTS HIM [ARTICLE]

COULDN’T WED; ADOPTS HIM

Los Angeles Woman Takes a Singer, Whose Voice Attracted Her, Into Family. Los Angeles.—The sweet voice of Alois Mayer, twenty-seven years old, who earns his living by singing in a case, and whose parents were alive in Germany the last he heard, won him a fortune when the superior court granted the petition of Mrs. Edith Amos, forty-seven, to adopt him as a son. Mrs. Amos, who said she had been attracted by the singing, which reminded her of her own dead boy, is the daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Burke of San Francisco. At her death Mrs. Burke left an estate valued at about $1,000,000. “I couldn’t very well marry him,” Mrs. Amos told Judge Sidney N. Reeve in urging her petition. Mayer came here from Munich a couple of years ago. He said he had not heard from his parents for months.