The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-19
Luther Hayner, a Veteran Soldier,
and Louise CIery, of Fftzger-
aid, Ga, I'm This City.
MARRIAGE LICENSE WAS READY
AFTER A TALK ABOUT MONEY, HOW
EVER, WEDDING is CALLED Off.
Hayner Accepts Matrimonial Defeat
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Clery
at Oneida Hotel.

Luther Hayner. ffty-nine years old and a
veteran soldier, has just got through with
his second campaign, which he wound up
at the Oneida Hotel yesterday. Years ago
he helped storm the forts OF the Southern
Confederacy. This time he laid seige to a
woman's heart.
Luther Hayner and Louise Clery are vic
tins of a matrimonial agency, a Chicago
establishment. Hayner for several years
has been an inmate Of the Soldiers Home
at Marion. He has employment there and
has saved a small sum of money. Accord
ing to his story he secured a furlough the
18th of last February and went to Chicago
for a short visit. While there he ran
across the matrimonial agency Of Frederick
Drake and wife, at 15 East Washington
street. He is a bachelor and is tired OF liv-
ing alone, so he inserted an advertisement
in a publication got out by the brakes. 1t
was of the ''wife-wanted" style and soon
was answered.
Within a short time Mr.. Hayner was TAX
ing part in a spirited correspondence with
Mrs. Louise Clery, Of Fitzgerald, Ga. The
correspondence was kept up and last Oc-
tober the pair became engaged. They had
exchanged photographs and liked each 9TH
SA . dppcdidlCS. ME SACAy was ACPOi lCa
to be we'll TO do, and Hayner says she
wrote him that she was converting most of
her property into money. This pleased him,
for he had plans. His scheme was to take
her money and place it with his own and
then invest In some modest business. Mrs.
Clery is a woman OF hfty-two and has
been married twice, Mr.. Hayner says.
The correspondence finally resulted in an
arrangement by which Mrs. Clery was to
come on to Indianapolis and meet Hayner
here. She arrived at noon yesterday and
was met at the Union Station by the man
she was to wed. The pair recognized each
other from the photographs.
AFFECTIONATE GREETING.
Hayner said last night that the meet
ing was a most tender one. An hour or
two later he had the license. They were
to be married during the afternoon at the
Oneida Hotel. but it seems that a slight
disagreement regarding financial matters
came between them and dampened the ar
dor of Hayner's love. Early in the after
noon they had a little interview and Hay
ner was informed by Mrs. Clery that she
had left her little fortune In the Fitzgerald
banks. Hayner's version of the affair Is
that he said TO the woman that she must
reiterate her promises to him. He told
her he could not support her without her
assistance and that she replied You never
can get hold of a dollar OF my money. I'm
6OAAA6 ~ hCOO II " 4alA OdOh O1 A4OUlQ
anything happen"
We'll" declared Hayner, you can keep
your money, but you can't keep me-" At
this the veteran lover prepared to leave
the hotel, and, according to his statement.
there was a scene. He was too old a stager,
however, TO be caught by woman's tears,
and thus the interview ended. Hayner
says that later in the day he returned TO
the hotel to talk matters over again with
Mrs. Clery. He found her surrounded by
the maids and mattresses of the hotel, and
these were lending voluble advice to the I'M
happy woman. Hayner says that as he
appeared on the scene he caught such re-
mark as You're lucky to get rid of him, Z"
He's a scapegoat," etc. The afternoon
and evening wore away without a recon-
Citation being effected, and last right Hay
ner took a train for Logansport 10 visit a
brother until after the holidays. He car
ried the marriage license In his pocket, and
declares he will send Ii to Fitzgerald, Ga.
His description of Mrs. Clery was that
She is not a good-looking woman by any
means, but she Is mighty intelligent" He
says Mrs. Clery frequently addressed him
In his letters as my dear sweet pet" He
says he once remarked to Mrs. Clery in
one Of his letters that she seemed to have
an unusually smooth and graceful flow of
language. She wrote in reply: The love
that is in my heart for you dictates my
letters" Hayner says this is the second
time he has been disappointed in a matri-
monial venture.