Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1909 — CHARGES A MOCK MARRIAGE [ARTICLE]

CHARGES A MOCK MARRIAGE

Girl Causes Railroad Man’s Arrest— Chase a Long One. Indianapolis, June 25.—The substitution of a saloon license for a marriage license is charged in the case against Fred Ray (’oak, a young man of good appearance, from Bedford, Ind., who was arrested after he had been chased from Indianapolis to Mexico. The charge against Cook is that he and two accomplices held a mock marriage which Miss Ethel McClellan of Bedford, the victim, thought was a gen uine ceremony Cook is a railroad man. The story is that Cook, who had a reputation of being a “ladies’ man” in Bedford, induced Miss McClellan tc elope with him from Bedford. They came to according to hei story, and went to a hotel, where Cook engaged two rooms. He went out after telling her he would get a license and make arrangements for the mar riage. After a time he returned accompanied by a man he said would act as a witness. Cook also had a roll of paper which he unfolded and which he said was a marriage license. Another man, she says, entered the room, and Cook introduced him as a minister. The “ceremony" followed.