The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-12-22
MARRIAGE IS VOID.
Judge Sease Sets Aside Wedding Of
Man Who Said He Was Drunk.

Man Who Said He Was Drunk.
For want of consent on the part
of the plaintiff" Ernest Brooks
Walker, of Greenville, formerly a
ticket agent at the Southern station
in Spartanburg, Judge T. s. Sease,
sitting in chambers, has annulled the
marriage contracted between Mr..
Walker and Miss Ida Jordan, pretty
telephone operator Of this city, on
August goth last.
In his complaint Mr.. Walker de-
clared he was so drunk when the
marriage ceremony was performed
that he had no recollection Of it and
did not know he was married until
he woke up in the Argyle Hotel the
following morning and found Miss
Jordan with him and she told his
she was his wife. In her answer to
his suit Miss Jordan admitted all his
allegations.
Rev.aW. N. Whitesides, pastor OF
the Grden Street Baptist Church, who
marrieh the couple. said last evening
that when they came to him it was
evident that Mr.. Walker had been
drinking but he was IN perfect COM
mand Of all his senses.
''Sweethearts Two Years."
'I talked to them both for some
time,'' said Mr.. Whitesides, telling
them what an important step it was
that they were taking and asking
them il iTthey had fully made up their
minds. Mr.. Walker said he and
Miss Jordan had been sweethearts for
two years and were determined to be
married"
In asking for the annullment Mr..
Walker said that on August 20, and
the day preceding, he and other
young men had been drinking to ex-
cess at the Salla Hotel in Greenville.
He was drunk that evening and while
in that condition went to Spartanburg
arriving about nine O'Clock.
Became Unconscious.
= He entered a hack at the station,
bought pint of whiskey from the
hackman and took big drink, "and
soon became oblivious to all trans
pirang events and unconscious OF
what he was doing"
He has learned that some time
during the night he went or was car
ried to Miss Jordan's home and that
about two o'clock Of the same night
he and Miss Jordan went to Rev. Mr..
Whitesides' house and were married.
He remained unconscious, he said,
until the next morning when he
found himself in q room at the Ar
gyle with Miss Jordan. She told him
they had been married. He at once
left the hotel, he said, and returned
to Greenville, and has not seen Miss
Jordan since nor written her, nor re-
ceived letter from her.
Their Ages.
Mr.. Walker is twenty-three years
old and Miss Jordan twenty-one. She
is the daughter of Charles A. Jordan,
a carpenter of No. 1877 Allen street,
and recently, it is said, has been en-
ployed by the Geer Drug Company.
Mr.. Whitesides, in talking Of the
ceremony, mentioned that Mr.. Walk
er told him he had no money. The
minister replied that heA would not
hesitate to perform the ceremony on
that account, but wished to be GER
tain that the couple were sincere In
their desire to be married. They
earnestly replied that they were.
LAS they were both of age and
there was no seeming objection" said
Mr.. Whitesides, II married them"
He added that the ceremony occur
red about eleven o'clock at Eight.
Mr.. Walker is native of Green
vile and has spent most of his life
there, but worked in Spartanburg Tor
a while. His attorney in the action
was B. NJ. Shuman, Of Greenville.
Judge Sease directed Mr.. Walker to
pay the COSTS in the case.-Spartan-
hnrp Herald ~