Smyrna times., 1903-09-02
SMYRNA WEDDING STILL A MYSTERY
Philadelphia Newspaper Men and D.t.c,,,,.
OOme TO Town But are Unable to Obtain
tue identity OF the Contracting Parties

ease ana wedding which took place ot
the circuit Parsonage in this town 1oa,
friday afternoon. The events oon
nec'eu with the issuing of the license
tnelr marriage by Rev. Alfred Scott ~
wilmington in the absence of Rev Al
pert Chandler, the sport of the vonng
people who decorated the carriage and
'ne mysterious movement of the CON
tractlng parties have already been nnb
hshed and are too well known TO be 70.
cited. The question agitating numar-
GUS people is: Who were Frad
Noerdlnger and Miss Infu NJ
Granger whose names appeared nm
the license. Fred G. Nixon.Nirdllnear
is manager for Nixon and Zimmerman
and Miss Lulu Marion Grangor is .
member OF the Miss Bob White Comm.
any and is but 10 years of age. Evid-
entIy some one either impersonated
tnem or the names were strikinglv
! similar.
photographs Very Much Resemble Parties
When photographs of Mr.. Nird-
llnger and Miss Granger were shown
the Rev. Alfred T. Scott who married
the mysterious couple and Magistrate
II. Il. Cummins who issued the
license, they declared that they re-
sembled the people but would not saw
positively Meanwhile the marriage
has caused considerable agitation. for
Mr.. Nirdlinger, who is manager for
Nixon d Zimmerman, and we'll known
IN the theatrical profession is married.
HIS wife and two children have been
soJourning at Atlantic City. Smvrna
people who saw the couple. saw that
the pictures which appeared in the
Philadelphia Press resembled the
couple seen in Smyrna. Daily news.
paper reporters from Philadelphia
visited Smyrna Monday and Yesterday
and are looking up the case. Monday
evening Magistrate Cummins accom-
panied one of the newspaper men to
Philadelphia where they visited Park
Theatre to see if Manager Nirdlinger
and Miss L. Marion Granger of the
Bob White" Company could be identi.
NEG as the same couple who were in
Smyrna. The two theatrical people
declare they have been impersonated
and claim they can prove an alibi. Mr..
Nrdllnger says that he never was in
Smyrna in his life and was at Atlantic
City with his wife and children on the
date of the Smyrna wedding. Miss
Granger declares that she was attend !
ing her rehearsals at the time men
toned.
Newspaper Men and Detective In Smyrna.
Yesterday a detective came to
Smyrna to look up the case on behalf
OF Nlrdlinger. He visited the Cir
cult Parsonage and now wants a copv
OF the license issued by Magistrate
Cummins. He feels that manager
Nirdlinger and Miss Granger have
been imposed upon and can see no rea-
on why he should even think of mar
rylng when he already had a wife. The
marriage is still a mystery, no new
delelopments haying come out.
Rev. Alfred T. Scott, when seen at
his home was shown photographs of
the theatrical couple and said that the
portraits resembled the couple that he
married, but that the top of the mans
head is different from the man he
married. "When l first looked at the
young woman L hesitated about per
the ceremony" he said, ''be-
cause L thought she was too young. (
She assured me she was % years old
md after the ceremony 1 looked at
Ter closely and was satisfied that she
vas fully 21 years old. She said the
eason that they went to Smyrna to
De maraied was because her parents
objected to her marrying Mr.. Noerd-
niger because he was Hebrew. After
the license asked various
luestions required by law. Miss
Granger did not appear to me to be
# age, but she declared positively =
hat she was % years old. asked !
10Th of them the usual questions :
whether either had ever been married
'efore and they both replied in the
legative." !;
Groom Cannot be Identified 10 Baltimore. t
Mr.. Noerdlinger is said to have i
tated that he was a salesman for a {
rm Of the name of Oehm in Balti- |
nore. 1t is said that no man named h
Joerdlinger is employed by that firm t
nd that the name does not appear in v
be Baltimore directory.
Commerce Street May Be RestOned. 7