Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-19
MARRIED NOW.
MARY L. JORDAN AND w. K.
MUDD WEDDED.
ploded When the Facts Are Made
Known-Mrs. Mudd's Affidavit.

The mock marriage which 1t was alleged
was practiced upon Miss Mary L. Jordan
by W. X. Mudd, an employe of the Denver
road, turns out to be not so much OF SEN
sation as was at first supposed, and Mr..
Mudd is relieved Of the odium which such
action, if true, would cast upon him. Mudd,
il will be remembered, was arrested week
ago in Henrietta for decoying Miss Jordan
from her home in Wichita Falls and entrap
ping her into bogus marriage. An i'll
vestigation was made by the grand jury of
Clay county, which jury was sitting at the
time, and resulted in the release Of Mudd.
When Miss Jordan was examined her state
ments failed to tally with the ones made to
Chief Maddox at the city hall here last
Tuesday. where she stated emphatically
that she had been married to Mudd by d
man by the name of Johns. In Henrietta
she made another statement, TO the effect
that no imposition had been practiced upon
her by Mudd. but on the contrary she had
accompanied him to Fort Worth and had
invented the marriage story with view to
modifying the feelings of her father when
he learned Of her escapade, and SO strictly
did she maintain that she was married to
Mudd that no one who heard her story
doubted it and were free in giving their
opinion of him who had duped an Innocent
girl.
When Mudd was released from custody
in Henrietta he Immediately proceeded to
marry Miss Jordan in the orthodox gay,
the ceremony being performed Thursddy at
II o'clock Mrs. Mudd's father and brdF her
were present and were satisfied withS the
course Mudd pursued in the matter. Alter
the ceremony was performed the now mar
ried pair Immediately took the train for
Fort Worth and are now residing at the
corner of Sixth and Calhoun. Mudd will
resume mis- run on the Denver in day ar
two. A
To a GAZETTE reporter he said tffat-a4fe
had been miSrepresented in the matter and
brought Chief Maddox to testify as to his
GOOD conduct while he has been citizen of
Fort Worth; also that he had never been
arrested. To place himself in the right
light before the public he turned over the
following affidavit, subscribed and sworn
to before NJ. d. Priest, a notary public of
the city:
STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF TARRANT.
Before the undersigned authority this
day personally appeared Mary L. Mudd,
who being by me duly sworn, upon oath
says that heretofore, to-wit on the 14th day
of Septem Der, A. D. 1891. that she stated
that William K. Mudd had procured a mock
marriage between affiant and himself
Affiant now states that her only reason for
making such statement was to appease the
wrath of her father, and in truth and in
fact no such mock marriage was ever had,
nor did W. X. Mudd nor any other person
or persons perform any such marriage In
truth she had only eloped with said w. K.
Mudd intending to marry him at some fu-
ture date aud that said w. 4. Mudd was in
no way more to blame in the entire matter
than affiant, and that in all things said
Mudd has acted toward atfiant as a gentle
man. MARY L. MUD.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this Septe mber IS, 1891.
NJ. D. PRIEST
Notary Public, Tarrant county, Tex.