Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — DAN CUPID AND BIG FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

DAN CUPID AND BIG FORTUNE

If Woman Marries, $600,000 Legacy Is Hers; but She Already Has Hushand. Milford, Conn. —Bequeathed an estate of $600,000 by an uncle If she will marry the man of his choice, but being already possessed of a husband and five children and barred from divorce because of her religion, is the dilemma in which Mrs. Mae Baldwin, of this place, finds herself and for which she is sorely perplexed to find a legal solution. The possibility of being married to a second husband in Utah has been suggested, but has also been set aside as ridiculous as well as repugnant. Whether, under the circumstances, she might marry as prescribed in a mock wedding, claim the inheritance and then return to her legal first husband, is still being debated, but Mrs. Baldwin sees no rift through the clouds of doubt that surround the situation. The will of Mrs. Baldwin's uncle has just been opened and names her as sole heir. The sole proviso given Is that she marry Cfeorge Curtiss, wHo was her lover before she eloped with Baldwin. Curtiss Is one of the witnesses of the strange will, and Mrs. Baldwin believes that the unnatural provision conceals a trick to deprive her of her Inheritance.