The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
FOR ONE MAIL ORDER HUSBAND
BRIDH ASKED no PAY HALF 4
BARN AS COMMISSION.

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Missouri Courts Asked 10 Decide whether
Mrs. Nonnlnger Got Her second Hus.
band Herself or whether Her Cousins
Acted for Her--A Man OF Expectations.
LANCASTER, Mo, March 2s.-A referee
in a case tried here recently has had put
squarely before him the wage due an assist
ant Of Cupid. Naturally such a proposition
has set him TO walking tho floor, and he
doesn't know whether he'll have his mind
made up when Circuit Court sits or not.
Dora WennInger, plaintiff. va BID. and
Pearl Mitchell, accounting" looked simple
enough 10 eK.Mayor f. l.. French, and
when the Circuit Judge asked him II he
would consent TO act az referee and make
a finding he promptly consented. Now
he wishes no hadn't,
The problem has travelled far out Of the
dry technicalttes Of the Law and has taken
in the delicate and somewhat complicated
motif inspiring the six beat sellers. He has
tried every rule Of the code on the question,
and finding no relief there Ia reading up on
the Priests Of Passion, Affinity Anachro-
nisms' and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
But | do@t seem to get anything TO At
he remarked sadly. The books waste
too many words on flowers. What l want
10 know Ia, Is II worth a half interest In a
livery barn and the undivided possession
OF an iron bedstead 10 locate q new husband
for a widow, the said husband having an
expectancy Of SOS, 600 or less from a personal
damage suit against a street car company
Mrs. Dora Skinner, tall, slender. straight
mouthed. qni OK spoken and IS, moved from
Kansas City 10 the home Of her relatives,
Bert d. and Pearl Mitchell. at Queen City,
Mo, in September, 1904, She brought with
her an iron bedstead. and later gave Mitchell
$500 for a half interest in his livery barn.
Not long afterward Mrs. Skinner went to
Lincoln, Neb. and married Gotlieb Wen
ringer, the man with the great expectations
from the street car company. Then she
wrote Mitchell suggesting that he account
for her share Of the profits Of the barn,
In reply Mitchell said he had liquidsted all
obligations due his kinswoman. How the
debt was cancelled Mitchell explained in
the course Of his examination.
While Dora was AT my house she began
a Corr~espoDdence With Gotlieb Wenninger,
whom she afterward married, : he testified.
she commenoet corresponding with him
after she had been at my house some time
o How did she happen TO correspond With
bim7 A., BY advertising.
y In what way did she advertiser A. She
had me place an advertisement with some
matrimonial bureau or club that was sup
plying husbands TO women who needed such
articles.
Q. Who wrote the letters for her? A. My
wife
q These letters we're answered bv Mr.
Wenninger? 4 Yes, sir. She said 10 my
wife II YOU will help me get a husband
and hone 7 will nay YOU we'll for Il.
\. What did rou say IN her when You heard
her shy that' \. | said Well. Dora, you
have had q hard time and ] would like to see
you get 2 good home,
o nd yOu say anything more IN her?
4. Oh. sho talkcd about It all the time first
thing whom she got up in the morning and the
last thing when she went 10 bed.
Q. what vas she to pay you people-you
and Pearl. vqur wife in the event you found
her a husband A. She said to me. Bert,
If You and Pearl will help me to get a husband
and a home will give you my interest In
the barn
y. What did you say A. 7 told her that
We would do what We could for her.
q. We'll, Whist further talk did You have?
A She talked about the sam thing over and
over again-it was the Same song, morning.
noon and night.
Mrs. Pearl Mitchell. the other defendant.
said she wrote the first and the last letter
10 tho man who became Mrs. SINNERS
second husband. Ciotlisb Wenninger. and
that she and her husband accompanied
Mrs. Skinner to Lincoln and saw her safely
married
Mrs. Wenninger held up her right hand
and took with emphasis the oath that she
would tell the truth.
u live in Lincoln. Neb.,' she said. and
| am now the wife OF Gotlihb Wenninger, a