The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-15
Miss Eugenie Adams Will Get
Uncle's Money.
Condition Was That She Should
Be Married.
ADVERTISED FOR ONE.
Harvey o. Brown Offered Him
self on Altar for $500.
After Wedding Bride Said Good
by Forever.

Washington, Oct. 15.-"Good-by, Mr.
Brown. Thank you very much for ac-
commodating me. I wish you a long
and happy hfe.''
And with a gay little wave of her
hand Mrs. Eugenia Adams-Brown, the
happy bride who advertised Wednesday
for a husband, was speeding to the
Union station, en- route for Europe to
claim the fortune left her by an &C.
centric uncle, provided she returns to
Germany with a marriage certificate in
her travelling bag.
At the retreating figure of the bride
her newly welded husband, Harvey o.
Brown, the successful suitor for her
hand, stared as if dazed at the light
ning-ike rapidity with which events
had occurred to transform him from a
confirmed old bachelor to a benedict.
Also the eyes of many more bachelors
and suitorS followed wistfully the dis
appearing figure of Mrs. Eugene Ad-
ams-Brown. Some of these bachelors
were men of sober years. Others, with
all the impetuousness of youth, had be-
sought Miss Adams to accept them IN
return for the 5000 which she held out
as reward to any American who would
marry her.
When it was announced to them,
who had been inspected by Miss
Adams and were awaiting the result
of her decision, that Harvey o. Brown
was the successful candidate for her
hand, a groan of disappointment es-
capped the lips of every man. One by
one they turned away, and formed a
line of detected and rejected men, as
Miss Adams and Mr.. Brown started
to the courthouse to obtain a license.
The couple went at once to the Of
flee of Wilton ]. Lambert. where they
explained to the amazed attorney that
n
witnessed wherein each party consent
ed that as soon as they became man
and wife their paths should separate
for all time to come. The drawing
of the agreement required only few
moments, and as soon as the document
was completed the name Eugene
Adams was affixed without a tremor
of the pen. The bridegroom was a
trif1e nervous, perhaps but he signed
his name without protest, and the first
half of the bargain was completed.
Brown Took the Money.
The marriage ceremony was perform
ed at 12:15 o'clock by Chief Justice
Charles B. Bundy of the municipal
court. During the ceremony the stakes
were held by a friend of the bridegroom
who was one of the witnesses, and when
the words, 'I pronounce you man and
wife" were uttered, the money was
handed to the smiling bridegroom. The
two crisp 500 bills represented a net
profit of $194 for what Mr.. Brown CON
sidered two hours easy work.
1t was early Wednesday morning that
Miss Adams appeared at the office of
an evening newspaper with an adver-
tisement which She asked to have in
serted in the matrimonial column. It
stated that a young foreign woman de-
sired to meet at once a poor, young,
Americana man, her object being
matrimOny. She declared that she was
honest in her intentions, was not an adj
ventures. and only desired to marry
man temporarily to obtain the for
tune bequeathed her by an uncle in
Germany. In return for his kindness in
marrying her, she said, she would pay
$500 to the man who should consent to
the ceremony.