The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-23
Mary M. Elliot Says C. j. Irons
Has Failed Her in Marriage.
Ever Since She Was 35 She
Has Maintained Affection.
NOW WANTS $4,000 FROM HIM
Spurned Love of Many Others
Only to See Cupid Disappear.
Claims COurtship Began When
MeIan Bridge Was Dedicated.

After waiting for sixteen years
ever since She was 35-for him to
make good an alleged promise to
marry her, Mary M. Elliot has given
up hopes and today instituted S.
600 breach of promise suit in the dis
trict court against c. ]. Irons, aged
81. Irons is engineer at the Central
Sash and Door company.
In her petition Miss Elliot tells of
courtship that has run hot and cold
by turns since the dedication of the
Melan bridge in Topeka. That 8
when she says she met Irons-the day
tie MeIan bridge was dedicated and
that was several years before the
flood.
Miss Elliot says the first excuse for
delay offered by Irons after they pc
came engaged, back in the Melan
bridge age, was that he wanted to wait
until either his father or mother died
He lived with them and didn't want
to leave them while they were ooth
alive If his father died first. she
says the mother could go and I'VE
with a sister If the mother died first
The father could live with them.
The mother died three years ago
and Miss Elliot says the hope that had
growriz weak in THE thirteen years Of
waiting experienced revival But
the revival was of short life. Irons,
she says,-then wanted to wait until
the father died The elder Irons
passed away recently and again the
waiting woman looked over her trous-
seau. But there was nothing to it
Irpns she says, fatty declined TO
marry her at all
The Other Woman.
The refusal when mixed with the
love and affection she says she felt
for Irons, brought about sort of
chemical change which produced
something entirely different from love
and affection. She suspected him OF
being interested in someone else. She
Looked into it and by the time she
was ready to seek solace in the courts
she was ready to say he is infatuated
with a young GIRL and she does SO
state in her petition.
Miss Elliott states that after she
bdcame acquainted with 1rons-at the
dedication of the Melan bridge-he be-
gan calling upon her, taking her to
places of entertainment and other
wise manifesting love and affection.
This sentiment became mutual, she
says, and continued to develop until
1901 when they became engaged.
Ever since 1901 up to the present,
says Miss. Elliott, Irons has been
keeping company with her and telling
his friends and acquaintances that
they were engaged and that she be
longed to him"
Turned Down Other Offers.
She was thirty-five years of age and
he was forty-five when they became
engaged, according to Miss Elliott. She
says she has wasted the best years of
her life waiting for MIN to fulfill his
contract and make wife of her; that
she has received numerous offers of
marriage in the sixteen years but that
she has turned a deaf ear to all of
them. She says she has spurned the
attentions of all other men and re-
MANNED true and loyal to him under
the most trying circumstances, relying
all the time on his promise to marry
her. That she has been ready and
willing at all times, is her statement.
Then Miss Elliott lists the things
she has endured which, she says, en-
title her to damages She says she
has been greatly Inundated, mortified,
sharned, subjected to ridicule con-
tempt and pity; that she has suffered
nehtal anguish. disappointment, NOR
LITIGATION and that her health has been
permanently and seriously injured.
she says she is on the verge of ner-
vous prostration, all because Irons
does not make good his word and take
her to wife.
Miss Elliot states that Irons owns
a home at Ills Harrison street and
land in Fresno, Cal. She asks for dam
ges to the amount of 5.000-$2, 500
for her own suffering and an equal
amount to punish Irons.