Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-12
MISS BROWN ina
SECRET WEDDING
Daughter of New York Central
President Wife of North
Carolina Banker.
SET FOR NEXT FALL
But Young Folks Decide Not to Wait
Helen Kelly Gould Bride of
Il. III. Thomas.

New York, July 12.-Skillful con-
cealment of details when they took
out their marriage license kept re-
POIters from learning that Miss Mar
saret H. Brown, daughter of VII
liam c. Brown, president of the New
! York Central, and George 5. PatteT-
son were married Sunday. The mar
riage was announced yesterday. Miss
Brown gave as her fathers name. w.
Carlos Brown, and as he is always
referred to as William c., this told
/ the newspaper men nothing. Instead
C giving her New York address she
gave her residence as Clerinda, rage
county, Iowa, her former home, and
/ her birthplace as St. Joseph, Mo. The
/ bride is 10 years of age. Patterson
$ % years old, and gave his Ie:i-
/ cence as North Church street, Char
I lotte. y. c. He is a banker.
The ceremony was performed at
the home Of the brides parents, i35
/ Central Park. West, Rev. Dr.. Cook
man of St. Thomas church ohici3t-
/ ing.
The young couple have been en-
gagged for some time with The CON
sent of Mrs. Brown and myself" slii
Mr.. Brown. They expected to be
married in the fall, and anrouuae-
ments were to have been sent out
from Chicago to our friends in the
west. Mrs. Brown had planned to
take our daughter abroad with her
this summer, sailing on Wednesday,
but" here Mr.. Brown smiled in
diligently" but, as the young people
were reluctant to be separated 60 or
80 days, Mrs. Brown and l helped
them over their difficulty"
Mrs. Gould weds Thomas.
New York. July l2.-Nrs. Helen
Kelly Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas
were married quietly yesterday in the
apartment of Mrs. Gould, $40 Park
avenue. Only relatives and intimate
friends were present at the ceremony,
which was performed by Rev. Dr.
/ Webster of the Brick Presbyterian
church.
The Bride W. yTveE away by her
mother, Mrs. Eugene Kelly. and Jo-
seph Thomas, brother Of the bride
groom, acted as best man. Miss
Eugenia Kelly. who is a pupil at the
convent of the Sacred Heart. decided
her religious scrupIes against divorce
would not permit her TO act as maia
of honor, but she did not stay away
from the wedding.
The real excitement Of the occa-
sion was provided by nine men, who
stood about in the entrance of the
apartment house until after the de
parture of the bridal couple and who
admitted that they were there to see
that nothing happened 10 the Gould
children. Helen and Dorothy.
children Taken From Car.
The little girls, who had been stay
ing at the country place of their
aunt. Miss Helen Gould Of IrvingtOn-
on-the-Hudson since the first of May,
came down in the morning to he
present at their mothers marriage,
and to say goodby to her before she
started on her honeymoon trip. When
the children left the house in care
of Albert Wisner and a governCss
several of the detectives came up with
the taxi the others had taken.
One Of the detectives displayed a
paper to the guardians of the little
girls and after a short conversation
the ldlttI were lIduSleIItA 10 ltt
touring car and taken to the Fifth
avenue residence of Miss Helen
Gould. There they were met by
cousin of Miss Gould. who took them
to IryingtOn-On-the-H
Several persons who had seen the
sleuth work of the nine. started the
report that the children had been
kidnapped either by Miss Gould or by
the agents of their father. Frank
Gould. The rumor spread rapidly
when il was learned that Mrs.
Eugene Kelly. grandmother Of the
little girls. expected them TO pay her
little visit at the Hotel Gotham
and that she had hurried home TO
welcome them, only TO be disap-
pointed by their non-arriyal.
MOthrr-fB-LaVy H. Angry.
Mrs Kelly spoke in bitter terms Of
what she characterized as an outrage.
and added that Frank Gould was un-
doubtedly responsible for it. When
Mrs. Thomas received an account Of
the affair over the telephone she
attributed the whole matter to the
overzealousness on the part of the .
detectives, whom, she said, had been .
watching her for a week