Arizona republican., 1913-06-08
COUPLE WEDDED
 0N SIDEWALK
Are Refused Admittance to House Occupied by Bride and Are Then Harassed While Ceremony is Being Performed

Ordered peremptorily by Faustino Telles. brother of the bride. to leave his residence at once. the sister. I.adislada Telles, the bridegroom, Jose Hernandez, the best man and brides maid, Justice R. s. Maclay. who per formed the ceremony. City Marshal John Igo, the interpreter. and Attor- ney Frank NJ. Doan another witness. grouped themselves defianuy on the sidewalk in front of the Lambertson | flats on Railroad avenue, and the ceremony was performed says the Douglas Dispatch. The time was about 5:30 o'clock. when smcltermen were passing on their way home. 1 Many halted. A switch engine stop ped while the crew watched. The porch of the Y NJ. C. A. was crowded. The ceremony was undoubtedly the most lively ever held in Douglas. Hernandez applied several days ago for a license in which he gave his age as 21 years and that of the prospective bride as 23 years Yester- day afternoon he appeared at the city hall and informed IEo that he was ready for the ceremony. Doan. who was in the office was invited to go along. Igo drove his automobile around by Judge Maclay's office, 5l5 Ninth street. and that official was secured The best man was then picked up. Another side trip was made for the bridesmaid, and the stage was set The party advanced en massc upon the fl2t building Mrs. Faus- tiano TelIes. sister -in-law of the bride, | T .l, ,t firct unwilling to admit the party An argument followed. Then Mrs TelIcs | consented to admit all save the | bridesmaid. More argument The | bridesmaid was admitted.
 l HcaVing q sigh of content that the ordeal should have been ended, Judge | MacIay lined up the party He was about to speak the solemn words when | a voice came from the rear room, asking in Spanish:
 Who permits this ceremony" At the same time the brother. Faustino Tenes, appeared on the scene through
 the door of a rear room.
 Judge Maclay explained that his sister was 23 years old, and needed no permission. Then get out of my 1 house. She cannot be married under my roof" said the irate brother. The l party moved to the sidewalk. That's my property. too" shouted the brother This was too much. The spirit of | Blackstone and other sages of the law arose in Doan.
 No. you don't order us off this
 sidewalk This is city property, and | we are free to hold a hundred mar riage ceremonies here if we want to- | Get busy Judge" he shouted with an ! oratOriCal flourish.
 1 By this time the neiEhborhood had begun to take notice and, IS the party 1 lined up. the crowd began to gather. l The ceremony was performed. Then
 came the most appalling calamity Of all The brides clothing. all save that
 in which she stood, was in the house | and under the guardianship of the | irate brother and the sister-in-law w. l Doan's legal ability was again called
 into play. They're your clothes. You
 say you owe her nothing. Go in and
 demand them"
 The bride pleaded tearfully that she | had no trunk.
 'Tll fix that" said the groom, who made a bee-line for his room where
 he emptied his own trunk and brought 1 it back on his shoulder in a few | minutes. The clothing was demanded | After a barley in which great un-
 willingness was displayed. the sister l in-law agreed to allow the segregation
 of garments that the packing up in
 volved The trunk could not be ] brought in, however, and she was
 firm on that point.
 Nothing remained to be done but pitch the clothing out of the door to | the waiting bridegroom. who picked
 the garments off the sidewalk and
 
 The division was noisy but not un- 1 amiable until a statue of Jesus was
 reached The bride and Mrs. Telez | claimed it Each was insistent The | wisdom of Solomon was invoked. The | sistcr-in-laW settled the argument by grasping the statue and shying it with 1 all her might into a corner It lay in fragments Then neither one wanted it.
 The next article under dispute was
 a beautiful red silk dress. The sister in-law refused to give it up, saying that the new Mrs. Hernandez owed her SIP on it. The groom came to the | rescue with twelve perfectly good round iron men. Then, enraged at the spectacle he and his bride had been made to create, he ripped the dress into rags, throwing the frag- ments to crowd of children which
 had gathered. The sorting was finally completed The bride left the house and she and her husband were busy slowing the clothes into the trunk,
 amid the cheers of the crowd, when
 the officials left.
 The police were on the qui vive for a riot call from that vicinity last night, but none came