The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-06-12
New York Judges Dismiss Suit
Brought by Old Mans Son.
He IS aged Ninety YEARS
But He Married a Woman of 80 Whom
He Called an Angel"

New York June 12.-Love at ninety is
not insanity in law, whatever IL may be
IN poetry. according to Judge Marean.
Of the Supreme court, who yesterday
dismissed the suit of Mortimer s. Brown
for the annulment of the marriage of his
nonogenarian father TO Augusta Andree.
| After hearing all the testimony the
| judge said there was nothing the matter
with the wealthy baker. who died few
weeks after his marriage. except that he
wanted 10 get married, "and it would be
a dangerous doctrine to decide that was
| insanity" the court said
That Paul G. Brown wanted to get
married. Notwithstanding the fact that
he had passed his ninetieth mile stone
was made evident by the continued
reading OF passages from his diary.
The woman of thirty whom he married
at last he described as an "angel sent
from God" In another entry he spoke
OF a girl who he thought might be too
young for him, but consolei himself with
the reflection that IL he did not get her
might get her mother.
IL was quaint, odd dairy that the law
yers read. The aged man began SSeery
entry with a comment on the weather,
and that and his remarks about mem
bers of his family were written in Eng
lish but as soon as he began to describe
his love affairs, which were numerous.
he wrote In Swedish
VERY UNSUCCESSFUL.
On March "a, 1901, the year of his mar
riage 10 the defendant, Brown made this
entry: x
have letter which looks as IL one
and / were coming together.
Other entries were as follows:
April i-Have written to Miss Murray
cannot find any woman to suit me
better than A. NJ She is not good look
ing, but faithful l sent the last letter
TO Mrs. M. but she is too high for me.
Shall I take the plain faced A. H?
April III think it better to have IL set
tied at once Either yes or no from the
buXom widow. Will not be surprised
If II is no. / wrote TO NJ. If she does
not answer by Thursday, of course she
will have nothing to do with me- I'll
go back to A. III. Thanks TO God for His
goodness to an unworthy old man.
April Ism. refused my offer. Now
shall wait again 10 hear from A. II.
April 23-All my efforts meet with nom
success. 1t is because l am too old
May 2-If / don't get a letter from A.
love affair ended.
May 1l-Sent letter TO w. L.; also
sent a five dollar bill to see IL that
would help some.
May 15-Got letter from my o.i love.
who says she will have me; after all.
Think that will be best for me but won
der why | don't get a reply from Alice
NJ
May 25-wrote TO Engewood II she
is younger than twenty-one she will not
do. Maybe If l cannot get the daughter
| can get the mother.
May 26-Maybe | can get clear of her.
and that will be the end of marriage
for some time, If not forever.
ONE WAS UGLY THE OTHER YOUNG
May 29-Am thinking OF getting clear
OF A M. or maybe l Will take her. But
l am so strongly opposed. But | am
sorry TO say have agreed to take A. NJ
IL will cost me so much money.
June Isl am thinking about two l
could get, but one is so ugly and the
other IL so young.
August 3-Cloudy and cool. She is so
sweet and so very good that | am al
ways i'm love with her.
That was the hast entry in the diary
Mr.. Brown died on August %
This man wanted to marry said
Judge Marcan. "and he knew that his
time was short. and he had no leisure
for dalliance. 1t would be a dangerous
doctrine II / should decide there was no
marriage here
He might have been silly. but he
adopted the only means at his disposal
to marry a woman outside the range of
his acquaintance and he conducted the
affair with great shrewiness.
But said Hugo Hirsch. counsel TO the
plaintiff. "he married this woman the
first day he saw her. and he could not
then tell whether she was a Mt woman
to marry"
"Oh. he was n shrewd old man." said
the Judge. land the history OF every
human being is written In his or her
face
FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS