The Detroit times., 1908-12-04
GROOM SHY toes
FOR WEDDING;
TILTED
MoTHER-IN-LAW
FURNISHES FLAT, BUT SELLS
FURNITURE WHEN DAUGHTERS
ROMANCE Is PuNcTuREp.

Harry L. Potter's alleged confession
to his inability to secure enough cash
with which to purchase his wedding
toggery is said to have been the cause
Of the breaking of his engagement
with pretty Fay Wollfsky. after all ar
engagements had been made for tho
wedding to take place shortly before
Christmas. So, Friday the household
goods that had furnished the nat for
the couple were sold under the auc-
tioneer's hammer In the nome OF the
young woman's mother. No. 225, Theo-
dore-st.
| When seen In her home Friday
morning, Miss Fay was. just about
leaving for her work.
II was married last month";" she de-
clared, when asked about the matter
Of the broken engagement and the sale
OF her furniture. Il don't care to say
when or where. but this furniture did
not belong to me-"
| She was interrupted by her moth
er, who told her she was late for work.
"Tll answer all questions" m.
nounced Mrs. Wollfsky.
my daughter was romancing." She
declared. "She Is not married and
what is more she never Will be TO
Potter.
"You see, 1t was this way: Harry.
who Is a brakeman on the Grand
Trunk railway, fell In love with Fay
when we lived In the same apartment
house on St Antoine-st., about two
years ago. He. with his sister and
mother, lived upstairs and we lived
downstairs. When noticed There
were young people in the apartment
over us, told Fay she had better get
acquainted with them, but she said
she didn't like the young man. After
wards. however. when she became ac-
ouainted with him, she told me she
liked him Very much, and later told
me that she and Harry were to be
married. or course, knew he was
good fellow. steady and all that. but
he had his mother to support and earn
ed only $55 a month.
Fay had been accustomed to have
everything she wanted that could
buy for her. and knew that II would
never do for her to marry a poor
n an, but she told me she loved Harry
and they would get along all right. OF
course, she knew that I would be good
to her even after she was married.
I'VE had made all arrangements for
the wedding, which was to take place
before the holidays. furnished her
rat for her. 7 paid sos for a dining
room suite, bought a brass bedstead,
furnished all the kitchen utensils.
Everything. even to the fiat irons. One
day last week Harry came here ana
told me he didn't have enough money
to buy his wedding suit told him
liz he didn't have the money he had
better rent suit. had heard that
such things could be done, but he said
he needed the suit and would rather
buy one II he only had the money.
told Fay II looked strange to have q
man about to be married not able to
buy his clothes, so on Sunday they
had some trouble. The engagement
was broken by Fay and the wedding
declared or"
+ II Is said that the wedding cakes
were baked and the bride had prepared
an elaborate trosseau for the wedding.
which was to have been quite an If.
fair in the Wollfsky household.
AS soon as Miss Fay told the moth
er there were TO be no wedding bells
|. for her, Mrs. Wollfsky had all the fur.
niture removed from the fiat to her
home and advertised II for sale at
) auction. Beautiful birdseye maple rock
ers, dressers. a mahogany desk, pic
lures. bedsteads. dishes and bric-a-
brac all went under the hammer.
81 thought that would be the best
way to dispose OF IT," said Mrs.
Wollfsky. 81 had bought II and paid
for 1t, and although II went at sac
rifce, wanted TO have 1t out OF tho
way. sold everything but the linens.
) Fay will clerk for little while now
SO as to have something TO take up her
attention. She has never had TO work.
: and I have always given her every
thing she desired II would never do
for her TO marry poor man. Harry
| Is good fellow. upright and honest
and all that. but he has his mother to
1 care for and shouldn't get married
until he can support a wife as she
should be He feels dreadfully over
the broken engagement. and has
begged Fav to take him back. but she