The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-11
NOT MARRIED
UNTIL FRIDAY
JamesPage and Miss Martha
Wooley Began Honeymoon
in Holyoke Court
WEDDING CEREMONY
IN SOUTH VERNON
Nominal Fines Imposed on Former
Brattleboro Undertaken and Nurse -
Restitution Had Been Made - PAGE
Produced Large Roll of Bills

Putting aside conventionalities, James
\. Page and his bride, who was Miss
Martha B' Wooley, both form. rIy Of
.Brattleboro, began their honeymoon
Saturday in the Holyoke, Mass, police
court. The marriage ceremony was per
formed the night before by Rev. Frank
Il. Lcavitt. pastor of the Advent church
in South Vernon. to which place the
couple went while out on bail the bride
being charged with larceny and the
bridegroom with fraudulently procur-
ing entertainment at an inn.
| The couple were arrested in Amherst.
| Mass, Friday by State Detective Mau-
! rice NclGgan aud were locked up in
police headquarters in Holyoke 1t was
alleged that Miss Wooley cashed a
worthless check for $50 Ut the store al
ID. Sutherland 4 Co., Of H0ivolse for
mcrlv of Brattleboro. and it was aliee-
! cd against Page that he 1rauduentlv
procured entertainment for the couple
at Hotel Hamilton in Hoiroke, leaving
there while owing u board bin OF $S7.J6
BY telephone to BrattIehoro Saturday
Page said he and Miss Woolcv had set
tied the trouble by paying $50 in court
also that they We're married last Octo
ber. As,to the settlement OF the charges
his statement was correct, but he seem,
To have erred with respect to the length
of time they had been married as the
marriage ceremony was performed bu
Ia few hours earlier.
They had been at Hotel Hamilton
95nie days ana were located in Amherst
where they were arrested Friday. o.
being released on bail they wanted t,
get married in Holyoke that night, hu
IWere advised that an Immediate eere
monv was impossible under the stint,
law, and the suggestion was made tina
the knot be tied in South Vernon
whittier so many Massachusetts couple
? 90 TO avoid waiting the required mum
Der of days after securing Il narriae
license in tht state.
From uolvokc Mr. Page called Rey
: Mr.. Leayitt by telephone Friday even
ing and asked If he could perform tn
ceremony for them. Receiving an nj
firmative reply, they started for the Ad
vent parsonage and were made man an
wife some after 10 o'clock that might
Page gave his occupation as phvsicia
aud undertaken. his residence as Las
Orange. n. j.. and Miss Wooley $ af
: dress as Springfield, Mass. Rev. Mir. Le;
. witt says they made a decidedly Il
, yorabc impression. but that had Ii
q known the circumstances he would hay
=. declined to have ofliciatcd.
Information from Holyoke is that tn
=. couple were all smiles when they r,
:. turned to that city, and the Holvob
tpolice say Page was one OF the mos
II Italkative persons with whom they eve
=, Icamc in contact.
:, g" In Court Saturday pleas Of guilty wci
y lmade and it appeared that restitutio
" had been made, both at Hotel Iamilto
- land at Sutherland < Go. :. In view
u that feet the fines were made nomina
that in the hotel case being SO and tn;
'" ; in the Sutherland case s.. The brid
II groom extracted It large roll of bill
y from his pocket and paid the chare
and TIE couple were released.
. Page, who was employed by Bond
? Son Of Brattleboro, undertakers, mt
few months ago, claimed that Il
trouble was due to misunderstanding
and that no wrong was intended. Nh
Page Is professional nurse, a cradua
% of the Brattleboro Memorial hospit:
and had ease at that institution
late az the early part Of November.