The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-01-28
Mrs. Cooper Decides. on
Hearing Story
MET AIT BELLOWS FALLS
Learns That His Love Letters Were Not
His Own--The Pair Separate For
ever at Bellows Falls
Hotel.

Bellows Falls, Jan. 2s.--Mrs. May
Cooper, who was to have married Prof
Warren g. Pierce Of Lebanon, N. H. d,
2 o'clock Saturday morning, changed her
mind AZ the last moment, and declined
70 allow the ceremony to be performed
Mrs. Cooper was closeted for some time
with a prominent local attorney previ-
GUS to her decision not to wed the man
she came 900 miles to meet.
This lawyer had received telephone
message from Lebanon, N. FL, pertain.
ing principally to the story Of prof
Pierce's career and he had been asked
by Lebanon parties to lay the matter
before Mrs. Cooper, 1t was only after
Mrs. Cooper had listened to the sketch
of Warren Pierce's life that she deter.
mined 70 give up het matrimonial lnten-
tions.
" is said to be q fact that prof.
Pierce, who cannot read or write, has
carried on his correspondence with Mrs.
Cooper through the aid of a friend, Mira,
LIE Clair, residing on Hanover street in
Lebanon. II was she, too, that gave out
the first information concerning his de-
termination to marry the woman from
Michigan OF course, all this Mrs. Coop
er did not know until she was put wise
in Saturdays interview.
Then, too, up IN Lebanon it Is a mat
ter Of common talk that Mr.. Pierce has
been known on many occasions to drink
70 excess. That he is none too well
ch in this worlds goods il also matter
Of common knowledge. For these rea
sons some Of che good citizens Of that
little town decided to have the facts PIT
before Mrs. Cooper, which was accom-
plished through the agency Of the Bel.
lows Falls attorney.
Inc vast difference in the appearance
Of the two people also appeal to people
here and from the moment it was given
out that they were ia be married Satur.
day morning the story grew more and
more romantic. How woman Of Mrs
Cooper's calibre could be even induced
to marry Mr.. Pierce seemed quandary
to everyone.
Mrs. Cooper, when seen by a CORES.
pondent Saturday evening, stated that
she was going north on the III O'Clock
train over the Central Vermont to Mon.
treal, where she should remain for i
couple 81 weeks.
She stated that she had money enough
and was not worrying about home
ssf. soI- -.
often. In fact, as she expresses it, she
takes them right along to see the coun-
TRY. Mrs. Cooper says the letters she
received from Pierce we're howery and
she was much surprised to learn that
be didn't write them himself
Mrs. Cooper says she wanted to meet
Pierce and size him up. She says she
never promised to marry Pierce and was
indignant over the fact that he had al.
lowed her picture to be published. The
picture, she says, was sent Pierce in con
fidence.
Mrs. Cooper says she always had a
pleasant home. that she has been widow
Ave years and that becoming lonesome
she desired something to which she could
direct her attention and took to having
these advertisements inserted in various
papers.
The woman had been crying and SO
had Pierce When questioned about hav.
ing any connection with church, Mrs
Cooper laughed and said she guessed the
church had not much to do with her
Mrs Cooper complained bitterly of her
treatment, saying she had been bounded
! by reporters and LAWYERS. She said also
that She had lived happily with her first
husband, who had been a wholesale mer
chant.
Warren Pierce left here at O'Clock
Saturday for Lebanon. IL was he who
went out Immediately after Mrs. Coop,
er's arrival Friday night TO locate q
Justice and it was he who made all the
arrangements for the ceremony.