The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-10-09
VICTIM OF A MOCK MARRIAGE.
sorrsweat Tals OF = scrantoa Girl Who
Can't FIud Hee Lever.

Cau's Flsd Hee Lover.
BRooKLYN, Oct. ga very young and
rosy checked girl sat In the ante-room Of
Counselor John A. Anderson's Offices this
morning, waiting her turn to sec the law.
yer. A she waited she cried softly to
herself In q way that evoked much sym
pathy from other women clients. The
girl was plainly but neatly dressed. She
carried q newspaper parcel and o small
leather bag, aud her appearance sug-
gested that she had travelled long dis.
tance.
When Mr.. Anderson gave her audience
she told this story: Her name Is Anna
Refs, and she lives with her parents on
the outskirts OF Scranton, Pa. William
REFS, her father, 10 an iron molder.
She has two brothers and sister, oil
younger than herself. During the season
she has, for the past two years, acted as
waitress ut o hotel at Millhead, n small
summer resort about 30 miles from Scran.
ton. In June last and week after she
had begun her duties ut Millhead she
formed the acquaintance of young man
who was guest at the hotel. Anna says
he was registered as Henry waidron of
Brooklyn. He was tall. slight. and had
dark moustache and side whiskers and
said he was an artist. His statement was
borne out by tho many sketches that he
made OF the mountain scenery of the
neighborhood. He appeared TO have
plenty Of money and sang and danced ex-
cellently. In spite of the fact that pretty
girls were not scarce at tho hotel, waldron,
so Anna says, paid her attention from the
first. Tho country girl, fattcred by the
preference shown her, yielded her heart
In short order. waldron talked of his
rich parents, of his beautiful homo on
Cincinnati avenue, Brooklyn, his horses
aud dogs and much else, all of which
stories were thoroughly believed by the
credulous girl. Finally, she says, he tried
to persuade her to leave homo and come
TO Brooklyn with him. Anna refused
point blank. After other efforts to make
the girl forget herself, the fellow said that
he would then marry her according to the
laws of the state Of New York. This. he
alleged, consisted OF putting q Wedding
ring on her fnger and repeating three
times. II take you TO be my wife," The
girl believed him and accordingly allowed
the mock ceremony to DO performed. He
cautioned her to keep the matter secret
until after he had told his family.
In August, waldron said that ho must
leave. He gave tho girl this address: "l45
Cincinnati avenue, Brooklyn" and told
her to write to HIM there. He also prom
ised to return to Millhead In two weeks ut
the latest in order to bring her back to his
Brooklyn homo.
Tho girl wrote him day or SO after his
departure. A week later she had her lct-
ter returned to her with ''no such address"
marked on the envelope. She wrote twice
after that with the same result. Then
she went home and made u clean breast
of tho whole affair to her parents.
Her father, who has relatives living at
Harlem. sent the girl on to them, aud
Anna. three days ago, began her search
for waldron. II need not be said that she
did not find him and that the conviction
at last forced itself on her that she had
beon duped by scoundrel.