The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-08-26
John Shagzda Comes To Wed
Aggie Gibus but Bride Is
Strangely Missing
.CROOMWOuLD RECOlERMONEY

John Shagzda, %. years of age, an
employee Of the Latin Rand Powder
Company at Pleasant Prairie, played
the leading role in a little comedy
" Waiting at the Church. on Tuesday
when he came to Kenosha to marry
Aggie Gibus, Kenosha girl, 10 years
Of age. The wedding was to have
takea place at the Lithuanian church
at nine O'Clock, but when the groom
got there he found no flower bedecked
chancel or bride in white awaiting him,
but he was advised that Aggie had left
Kenosha and had gone without leaving
any address at which sne coulo be
reached. Shagzda learned that his
bride to be had left kenosha last Sat
urday night in company with a man
known as Charley. Charley re
turned to Kenosha on Sunday but if
he knows where the BRIDE is at the
present time he refuses to tell and the
police have not been able to locate her.
1t is claimed that on saturday night
the girl was at North Chicago, but she
has probably gone on to Chicago where
she is being cared for by relatives
and frienos.
Shagzda takes the matter in a
philosophical manner and declares that
he will not marry the girl if he finds
her, but he insists that he has hand
some little home ready in Pleasant
Prairie and that he would be glad to
take another girl home with him to
put the finishing touches on it.
In burst of confidence the Pleasant
Prairie man stated that he had known
the Kenosha girl for the past four
months and that he proposet: marriage
to her some six weeks ago He was
promptly accepted and the date of the
wedding was fixed at once. Then
Shagzda began to loosen up on his
pocketbook and he gave the girl $3.50
with which to purchase clothing for
the wedding. The money was spent
in short order and the bride to be came
back for another $25 and John handed
this over without question. About
this time he began to fix up the home
at Pleasant Prairie and spent some
sixty dollars on furniture. Last Thurs
day he secured the license for the mar
Iriage, but this was returned to the
county clerk this morning.
The groom declared to the police this
morning that he did not care where the
girl had gone, but that he wants to
reple1in the clothes he bought for her
and if possible get back some Of the
twenty five dollars in money. The
bride has two brothers living in Keno
sha, but they insist that they know
absolutely nothing of the present
whereabouts of their sister.
Chief o Hare after hearing the story
of the Pleasant Prairie man consented
to send man to Chicago to make an
effort to find the girl, but there is lit
tie reason to believe that the quest
will be successful one.
'shagzda considered his rundown as
a good joke, but notwithstanding this
fact he refuses to smile over it until
after he RECEIVERS the clothing and the
money. When asked what he would
do with the stuff if he got it he said:
well you never can tell, there might
be another girl in the world somewhere
and then besides you know [ have a
house all furnished out at the prairie
and this may prove an added induce
ment."
The Somers Grays defeated the Pike
Groves at Somers Sunday afternoon by
q score of 8 to Q.