Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1916 — Prosecution Stopped By Wedding Ceremony. [ARTICLE]

Prosecution Stopped By Wedding Ceremony.

Monticello Journal: Oliver G. Gardner, of Wolcott, was arrested on a train near Seafi’Old by Marshal Pemberton today and was taken to Wolcott to stand trial before the justice of peace on a paternity charge preferred by Miss Ida Lynn Mikesell, of Wolcott. He consented to marry the girl and they -were brought here this afternoon by Mr. Pemberton. Justice E. G. Smith performed the ceremony. The girl was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. John Mikesell. Local police authorities had been notified to apprehend him here yesterday as-, ternoon but he had left the city before the notice came.