Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — Adopted a 40 Year Old Orphan. [ARTICLE]

Adopted a 40 Year Old Orphan.

The fact has just been made public that Mrs. Theresa Slick, widow of the late Judge Slick of Wabash, prominent as attorney, judge Fulton Circuit court and general counsel of the Chicago and Erie railroad, has adopted as her son W. A. Woodruff, an osteopatbist, and ten years her junior, who formerly practiced in La* fayette. - f' Mrs. Slick met Woodruff during her husband’s illness. Woodruff being called to treat the judge. Inheriting a considerable fortune from her husband she was induced by Woodruff to establish a sanitarium in California with her means. That she might be associated with him without inviting criticism, the legal process of adoption was secretly resorted to. Mrs. Slick is 50 and Woodruff 40, and the strange alliance has created a sensation in northern Indiana, where Judge Slick was so long prominent. Woodruff and Mrs. Slick are now in California.