Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — WEDS SUDDENLY; DESERTS GROOM [ARTICLE]

WEDS SUDDENLY; DESERTS GROOM

Rensselaer Girl Married Tuesday, Elopes Heit Day ALL SPEED LAWS SHATTERED Exercises Prerogative of the Eternal Feminine Changes Her Mind and is “Gone With a Handsomer Man.” Charles Gilmore of near Demotte was in the city Monday securing information as to the doings of his 16-year-old daughter Ruth, who for the past two years has been employed as a domestic.in the family of E. P. Honan, and who left last Wednesday w’ith Gossie Brown, a young man who has working for Joe Borntrager of near Pleasant Ridge. Young Brown had been the girl’s “steady” for some time, but on Sunday, August 6, she met at Parr a Chicago Heights widower, Paul Possen, aged 42 years, who had married a cousin of the girl. Possin’s wife died some time ago and he had hired his three children kept by a relative at Parr. It was while he was visiting there that he met the girl, the first time he had seen her since she wias a small child. It was apparently a case of mutual admiration, and Tuesday they went to Chicago Heights and were married.

Possin has a position with a chemical company there and now draws a weekly salary of $16.50, with a prospect of a raise to $lB soon. He gave the young wife $5 in cash Wednesday morning, his late wife’s gold ring and some of her clothing, and she came to Rensselaer, ostensibly to get her belongings at the Honan’s and return -to hffbby in the afternoon. Instead she was met by Brown w*hen she got off the train here and he prevailed on her to accompany him to his brother, Lester Brown’s home at Kirklin, and they left on the 2:01 p. m., train Wednesday afternoon. In the meantime Possin was anxiously waiting the return of his bride, but learning that on her return to Rensselaer she had vigorously denied the rumor that she was married,, and her failure to return, caused him to come to Rensselaer 1 Sunday and he then learned that she had left with Brown. Possin is said to be quite a dec' * sort of fellow, and he felt ery badly over the doings of his wife. Telephone communication was had with the girl’s father near Demotte and the latter was to come to Rensselaer Sunday afternoon and accompany Possin to Kirklin and try to have the girl-wife return to him. Mr. Gilmore, however, was unable to secure a way to get to Rensselaer, he says, and did not reach here until Monday at 11:06 a. m. He was to leave on the 2 p. m. train that day for Kirklin to assist in having the girl return to her husband. Gilmore intimated that if he run across Brown there would be a subject furnished for a funeral down in that vicinity but his enthusiasm over what he would do to Brown finally overcame him—too frequent indulgence in courage elixer—and he wandered off in the northwest part of town and went to sleep. j Someone made complaint to the that his complexion would be ruined if allowed' to remain in the hot sun too long, and Sheriff Hoover went down and aroused Gilmore and got him on his pins again. Charles had evidently been saving up his money of late, as he had some $260 on his person when picked up by the sheriff. And in the meantime, again, Possin took the milk train here Sunday evening for Lafayettd and thence across to Kirklin to see if lie couldn’t lone-handed induce her to feturn to him. He

found her at Brown’s brother’s, but Gossie wasn’t in evidence. The Kirklin marshal accompanied Possin out to Brown’s, and the young wife at first said she W’ould return with him. Later she refused to do so, and on the advice of the marshal Possin comes back to Rensselaer on ahe 2:57 train Monday afternoon to get a warrant to take her. He was told here that this was unadvisable, and he could well get a warrant there as in Rensselaer. So Possin, accompanied by the girl’s father, left on the milk train again Monday evening for Kirklin, and Gilmore declared that he would bring her back. At this writing they had not returned. The girl in the case is not, yet 17 years old. She has had a good home at the Honans and they thought a great deal of her. Her mother ‘has been dead for several years and there are several of the children, a younger sister being employed in the J. L. Brady family. The girl perhaps regrets having married on so short acquaintance a man nearly three times her age. But there may be other reasons back of all the difficulty Wlhich will no doubt come out in time. She may have had a quarrel with Brown and got married to spite him, only to regret her action later.