Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-08-17
DRUGS FOR CUPID.
STRANGE STORY OF THE MARRIAGE OF A
NEWARK GIRL.
She Claims That She Was Made Unconscious and
Enrapped Into Marrying Man Whom
She Thoroughly Dsspises-A Highly
Sensational Case.

NEW YORK, August l6-Clara Fales, the
pretty young Newark girl whose marriage
with Frank T.. Stevens has created such
sensation, is determined TO free herself
from her obnoxious marriage ties She
has retained Lawyer Charles A. Fiech to
institute proceedings for the annulment of
the marriage, and immediate action will be
taken.
The young woman is the daughter Of
Mrs. Prosper +. Fales, who has charge of
the Merchants National Bank, and with
her two daughters occupies the third floor
of that building at No. 40 Broad street.
To a reporter who visited the home yes
terday, Miss Fales of Mrs. Stevens, said:
II first met Mrs Charles Stevens four
years ago in Newatk. She was unmarried
then, and was a nice, pleasant girl. Visited
New Haven at her written invitation on
July and remained until the 18th. l
believe that she plotted and planned since
knew her to have me marry her brother
in-law. He is short, stout and boyish look
ing. He has a red face and sore eyes, and
is the last man in the world | would think
Of marrying of my own free will. Two
days after my arrival at her house, No. 81
De Witt avenue, New Haven. | began TO
feel bad My head buzzed and my vision
was blurred most of the time. This
woman was always around me and never
left me TO myself. l detected peculiar
taste in the coffee, and, suspecting that 1t
had been tampered with, refused TO drink
it. She kept at me and insisted that
should drink the stuff, and, beginning to
feel that / was in danger, ! told her / was
going home. She laughed at me and said;
No; guess you won't go home in
hurry Then she told me that had been
married to Frank Stevens.
Il believed she was joking at first, but
afterwards found out l was married to him.
l did not remember anything about a mar
riage ceremony, but it dawned upon me
that had been trapped. / made inquiries
and learned that what had heard was on
" too true. As soon as possible l came
home. My mother was not home when l
arrived, as she was visiting in Litchheld,
Mass, As soon as she came home told her
all. Stevens called at my home several
times, but l refused TO have anything TO do
with him other than to give him to under
stand that l did not consider myself bound
TO him by any such marriage. II l am a
wife believe the ceremony was perform
ed while was under the influence OF drugs
and l knew nothing of 1t for several days
l did not live with Frank Stevens after the
ceremony and / will never go with MN"
Mrs Fales said "The minister who per-
formed the ceremony admitted as much 70
me, that he did not ask Clara question be-
fore the ceremony was performed. The
City Clerk Of New Haven showed me a
copy of the statement made by Stevens
when he procured the marriage license.
He made affidavit that Clara was born in
Boston, when he knew she was born here,
and that she was twenty-one years of age,
when she is only nineteen. The statement
that saw of Stevens is false"
LAWYER Fiech, who is they young woman's S
counsel. said that he knew his client 10 be
suffering with intermittent fever and that
her physician was of the opinion that she
was in such a condition that any drug II
administered TO her would render her inca
pable of knowing what she was doing.