The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-24
HUSBAND SUES
 FATHER -IN-LAW
WEDDING ALMOST STOPPED AT COURT HOUSE HERE WITH AU-
 TOMATO PISTOL RECALLED.
Groom Deprived of His Bride by Fath. CT of Girl Wants $5o,ooo in
 Lieu of His Bride.

Dispositions are being taken here in two court actions growing out of the wedding at the court house in this city last season of J. l.. Whitestone of 1 Pittsburg, to Miss Bessie Landauer a beautiful and wealthy young girl of Dallas, Texas
 The wedding. it will be recalled was enacted at the court house one night in hurry, and just at it's con clusion a brother of the bride ap- peared on the scene with an automatic pistol, and probably would have slain Whitestone but for the weapon hay ing been taken from him by Row Brown.
 One of the suits now in the Texas courts is for an annulment of the mar riage. Miss Bessie Landauer, in this action, charges that Whitestone used undue influence over her, hypnotic spells, witchcraft and other arts, to induce her to become his bride
 The other shit is one in which Whitestone is plaintiff and H. H. Lan- dauer the wealthy father of the bride. is defendant, and the groom asks $50,000 damages of the father for being deprived of his bride.
 
 It will be remembered that follow ing the ceremony the father of the bride refused to permit Mhitestone to keep her and that later the bride was hustled away to Texas, to her home.
 Whitestone and Miss Landauer were both visiting in this city and met only casually in the ball room of one of the large hotels three days before the ceremony. Miss Landauer was much enamored of Whitestone, who returned her affection. Those who were acquainted with the couple said it was case of love at first sight,
 Nothing was said of the anticipated ceremony. One night Whitestone and Miss Landauer went to the court house about o'clock, had Clerk Mooney called, asked for a license and as they wanted the ceremony per formed at once, Justice Joe Afford was sent for.
 The justice was just about to con clude the ceremony when another scene was enacted outside the door Row Brown was working on books in the office of Clerk Mooney about that time, He saw the door open and young man much excited rush through the door opening to where the ceremony was being performed Brown has an intuitive presentment that something was wrong and he rushed out and headed the excited young man off just as the latter pull ed his automatic revolver to get in the room and shoot Whitestone.
 The excited young man was a brother of the bride. who had heard of the elopement, and was hurrying to stop the ceremony, but who arrived too late. Young Landauer paid a $50 fine for carrying pistol, and was released.
 In the depositions taken here H H. Landauer and his son were present with their counsel, and Whitestone was represented locally by Attorney c. Floyd Huff. County Clerk Robert Mooney Row Brown and Justice Al ford were the witnesses examined through dispositions.
 Throughout the whole of the ques- tioning counsel for the I-andauers en- deavored to bring out that Whitestone was exercising an undue influence over the young girl, and that she was submissive" to his bidding. It was attempted to show this because the girl agreed to hurry-up ceremony, and because she seemed to be willing for anything Whltestone suggested.
 The cases will all be tried in the courts of Dallas, Texas, where the Landauers reside, and as the father of the bride is said to be very wealthy, the court action will no doubt attract much attention.