Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-25
LINCOLN LAWYER
AND HEIRESS ELOPE?
Jimmie Brown and Miss
Babette We'll Said to Have
Put One Over On Folks.
FRIENDS UP IN THE AIR

A young couple, giving their names
as James L. Brown and Miss B;bette
We'll of Lincoln, applied at the court
house for a license to wed shortly
after 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. 1t
was granted to them, they having
given the name Of DR.. Frederick
Cohn, rabbi of Temple Israel, as the
officiating minister. When DR.. COIN
was asked later in the evening, he said
he had performed no wedding cere-
mony, nor did he expect to perform
any between the parties.
the fact that Miss We'll is the daugh-
ter Of leading banker of Lincoln.
James L. Brown is young man who
Is building up name for himself as
practicing attorney at the Capital
City. Friends of the family say il
has been known that Miss We'll and
Mr.. Brown were much attached to
zach other, and an engagement has
been limited at. Also, that par ,ntal
objections amounting practically to
veto have been filed. On this .ests
the hypothesis that an elopement has
taken place.
What Friends Tell.
An Omaha friend of the We'll fam
lily said last night that DR.. Cohn had
positively declined to perform the
ceremony Of wedding the young cou-
pie, knowing the disparity in their re-
ligious views, and also being aware of
the family objections to the wedding.
After leaving the home of DR.. COIN
the couple disappeared. Relatives of
Miss We'll expressed surprise when
told of her presence in Omaha and
her probable mission here, but could
give no information as to her where
abouts. Her sister7in-law at Lincoln
said Miss We'll had not left home
during the day, and was at Lincoln
last evening, but this assertion was
not made with the force to carry con-
viction. AT the same time she advised
her brother in Omaha not to discuss
the subject with the newspapers.
Other sources in Lincoln insist Miss
We'll is not at home, nor could Mr..
Brown be located, while it was also
rimated that Mr.. We'll is making
systematic search for the missing pair,
Latest information concerning the
clipping couple indicates that the
young people have gone to Chicago,
where Mr.. Brown had business en-
gagement today or Thursday. They
will probably make an attempt there
to have Jewish rabbi perform the
Brown Known Here.
James L. Brown worked here, for
a time as newspaper reporter, and
then went to Lincoln, where he took
up similar work, taking a course in
the University Of Nebraska, gradual
ing from the College of Law. Last
summer he was active in the cam
paign OF Judge Albert J. Cornish for
the supreme bench, and spent several
weeks in Omaha in this service. He
has since been associated with w. T.
Thompson, head of the Dry fedora
ton in his law practice
Added interest is attched to the
Brown-Weil affair because of previ-
GUS affaire du occur of the attractive
Lincoln girl, which was cut short by
parental opposition. The first young
man was popular young instructor
in the college of agriculture, whose
parents reside in Omaha, but who
has now gone west to teach. This
was two or three years ago.
To reconcile the young girl for CIV
ing up her admirer her father pre-
sented her with an electric, so Omaha
friends say.