New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-14
WAS TO WE'D Il. Y. CROKER
NUPTT4LS IN OKLAHOMA.
Miss Horizons Statement Denied 6y
His FamIu-"Don't KnOTc Her.

Miss Florence Croker. on behalf of the Croker
family. denied last night that Herbert v Croker
had been engaged 10 Miss Jeanette Horton oil
No 153 West 22d-st. Miss Horton, who lives
with her mother and brother, says she was .
start next Saturday for oklahoma "here she
was 10 be married TO him. Her mother is 10 an
nounce the engagement formally to-day.
Miss Horton told in detail last night Of her &C
ouaintance and engagement to MT. croker anu
said that. with the exception of Miss Florence
Croker. the family had hAen much opposed 10
the marriage.
81 FIRST met Mr.. Croker about six months ago
when he visited my home with friend she
cid .and we became engaged. His family OBJ
iected strongly 10 this. although Miss Florence
croker treated me kindly; but if they intended
~ senarate us by sending him to Oklahoma
their nlaps miscarried The night before he
started he agreed to write TO me as soon as he
reached Ranch 101. at Bliss Okla. Next Satur-
dav I was to have started for Oklahoma where
we were 10 have been married at once
81 firmly believe he was the victim OF foul
n,av for cannot believe those stories that ne
was an opium fend and a hard drinker. never
saw any trace Of the drug about him. and never
saw him in the least under the influence OF
liquor"
Miss Horton says she and Mr.. Croker wer'
engaged a week after they first met. on April
% he pror1ised TO give her = ring, but he was
sick when the day arrived. and she did not re-
ceive it.
IT was a case Of love at first sight" she SAID
II is a strange coincidence that Frank Croker
was killed. too. soon after he became engaged
Miss Horton is twenty-five years old she
has been attending private school for the last
few months she came TO this city from Horton
Delaware County, about seven months ago ana
since then has lived with her widowed mother
and a younger brother, who is just out OF schooi'
Miss Florence Croker, when Miss Horton
name was mentioned did not know to whom II
referred. she said When the girls story was
reoeated to her she said ii was the first time she
had known that such a person existed.
"Urhy. I rever even heard of this young wom-
an before, never dreamed she existed SO now
could I treat her kindly she says?' sald
Miss Croker None of the family ever met or
heard OF her before tonight. Speaking LOT me
entire family. / say that not one nleIhpeL
Of II believes that Herbert was eHSaseu OF was
10 have been married in another week. ne
Z-a1t West of his own will for his health. HIS
throat was slightly affected, and we all thouSnI
the open air life in the West would DO II nluch
good That the only reason ne mao Ior
going to Oklahoma
Mrs CROKER is still Frustrated, but is recover
ing An intimate friend of the family VINO VS.
tied them yesterday said they had received no
word from either Richard Croker or Rlcharo .;
Croker. They did not believe AIr. Croher NouI1
come to this country to attend the funeral, as
his health suffered severely when ne came mere
less than four months ago TO see ms son raHh
buried # he was in good health, the 1rlehu
added Mr. Croker would come TO this country
N some tine in September. when the family mauso-
b leum in Calvary Cemetery is expected to be COM
pleted.