Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1909 — GEORGE RHODIUS DIES AFTER AN OPERATION [ARTICLE]

GEORGE RHODIUS DIES AFTER AN OPERATION

Millionaire Who Said Woman Abducted Him Passes Away. « Indianapolis, Dec. 21. —George Rhodins, a wealthy resident, whose marriage at Louisville five years ago to Elma Dare was annualled after the couple had been pursued to New York, la dead in a sanitarium. He suffered a stroke of paralysis Sunday and an operation to relieve pressure on the brain was performed. Elma Dare appealed annulment proceedings to the state supreme court, and this matter Is pending. She was charged with the abduction of Rhodiuß when, It was alleged, he was weak mentally and physically. Rkodius received a fortune estimated at nearly $1,000,000 when his mother died.