Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-28
WEDDING SURPRISE To
COUPLES MANY FRIENDS
Grace Zerbe Married by Justice
of Peace-Parents Deny Af-
fair Was EIopement

Friends of Miss Grace Zerbe, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Zerbe of
the Burlington apartments, will be sur
prised to learn of her marriage yester-
day afternoon to r. T. Kirkham Of
Kansas City. The brides father is an
inventor, and his efforts to perfect an
airship of new type have attracted
wide attention. The bridegroom's fa-
ther is wealthy manufacturing jew
eler of Kansas City.
The marriage ceremony was per-
formed at o'clock yesterday after
noon by w. S. Baird, justice of the
peace, in the presence of two witnesses.
Elopement rumors were circulated as
soon as the marriage was reported, but
these were vigorously denied by MEM
bers of the brides family, who said
that they had known of the engage
ment and were pleased with the mar
riage.
The bride is one of the prettiest Of
the younger society girls here. 1t is
only a couple of years since, with her
parents and sister, Miss Laura Zerbe,
she came from New York city to reside
here, but already she has hosts OF
friends who will regret her purposed
departure from Los Angeles.
Gifted not only with remarkable
beauty, young Mrs. Kirkham has also
poetic ability, and many of her verses
have been published in song form, set
to music by her equally talented sister.
Mr.. Kirkham is the son of Joseph
Kirkham, a wealthy manufacturing
ieweler of Kansas City, and has large
oil properties In California. He has
been residing In Los Angeles this VIM
ter, and is we'll known in social ana
business circles.
After a brief sojourn in Southern
California, Mr.. and Mrs. Kirkham Will
v,.afe Nrfan
reside. They will be at the st. Francis
until they decide upon location for
their new home.
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we are told, has been instructed to ex-
haust every resource for the purpose
of returning Horning to Folsom. Mean
while he is being held on charge the
authorities did not venture to bring at
the very time when Capt. Auble was
killed, although Sutherland had es-
caped them by suicide, and, beyond all
ouestion-for the police are exceedingly
bitter-they would have tried Horning
as accomplice in the murder If there
had been the slightest chance OF MAX
ing the accusation stick.
I say it smacks of persecution; 1t
suggests the thought that our prose-
cutting attorney, who is entering on a
campaign for reelection, is more de-
sirous of proving that, somehow or
other. he can make his indictments
hold than he is of doing justice.
WOMAN EXPRESSES FAITH
Judgment by appearances, you will
saw, is fallacious, but when one has
had experience in interviewing it is
makes a most favorable impression,
and I go much on the statements Of
Mrs. Clark, with whom he boarded.
She is obviously q superior, level
headed woman, entitled to credence.
She has stuck by Horning throughout;
saws she knows him as she knows her
own son Roy, who was his chum; that
Horning never taught the boy any
thing vicious; that there was never
sign of a weapon in his room; that
after he had ceased to live there he
visited her regularly every Sunday,
and that It is simply impossible for
her tn regard him as a hardened GRIM
inal. I am sure she is sincere in say
ing this, and that her Judgment is
likely to approximate justice far more
closely than are those who are using
Ali the laws complicated machinery to
immure for years a man who should
have a long and decent life before
him.
SLAYER, VerVoort was slightly wounded
and Horning though denying guilt and
explaining his confession in manner
that will carry much weight with those
who know the actual workings of our
criminal procedure, has served twenty
one months of his young life in prison.
Is It not enough? Must the law al
ways be a vindictive Shylock, ever
lastingly crying for its pound of flesh?
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Healing meeting at 8 o'clock. 1862